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Scottish Health Secretary Angela Constance said corridor care is unacceptable and pledged to count it, as an emergency doctor told broadcasters A&E can no longer guarantee safe care.
A Royal College of Emergency Medicine leader told BBC Scotland she is “completely terrified” of winter pressures as patients wait up to 72 hours on trolleys despite a ministerial pledge to end corridor care.
Severe heart-disease patients across London are receiving hospital-level monitoring at home under an NHS scheme that early data suggest could save millions of pounds and hundreds of lives annually.
Regulators told shops and caterers to pull every shell egg stamped 3UA1012066 from Yasensvit Ltd in Kyiv after Salmonella Enteritidis was detected; major supermarkets say they are not affected.
From 1 October, people aged 16 and over who are rough sleeping or in hostels joined the free NHS flu programme alongside the usual adult cohorts.
Community Pharmacy England activated paediatric flu pathways so at-risk two-year-olds can be vaccinated on the high street from 1 October alongside the adult rollout.
