11th June 2026

A&E nurse: “It wasn’t like this in 2010”
A senior A&E nurse in a hospital in the south of England says “In 2010 it….was a completely different world. If a patient needed immediate attention, there was easily the capacity for two nurses to look after them straight away”, and “,,, patients in my A&E can wait up to 16 hours to be seen by a doctor. Not in a million years would that have happened when I started.”

1300 deaths a month due to long A&E waits
The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says “It’s frustrating that we continue to see a lack of solutions designed to tackle the root causes of the problem. Instead, we are fobbed off with recycled ideas that haven’t ever worked.” He wondered how many more deaths it would take before there was a meaningful plan to tackle the crisis?

Palantir given unlimited access to our data
NHS England plans to give Palantir and other external staff “admin” roles with broad access to identifiable patient data on the federated data platform. They will be able to see your health data before it is pseudonymised.

Can technology replace trained doctors?
A workforce plan being finalised by health officials says the NHS in England will have to use technology to get by with hundreds of thousands fewer staff than envisaged under the previous Conservative government. The reforms were drawn up while Wes Streeting was health secretary.

Campaigners legal action against US-UK drug deal
Campaigners against the UK’s controversial drug pricing deal with Donald Trump are threatening the government with legal action unless it scraps a key element of the plan.