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Thousands of appointments rescheduled due to junior doctor strike

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Junior doctors make up more than half of medics at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust

Junior doctors are set to strike this week

NHS set for “incredibly tough week” during junior doctors strikes

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Nearly a third of ambulance patients delayed by at least 30 minutes

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NHS pressures: What's happening at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust?

NHS call for responsible drinking during ambulance worker strikes

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Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust slashes two-year waits

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Hospital waiting lists: The busiest departments at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust

The King's Fund think tank said another national record for the number of people on hospital waiting lists shows the strain on the NHS is reaching “unacceptable levels”

Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust patients waiting 13 weeks for treatment

NHS England figures show 67,922 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of December – up from 66,189 the month before

Over 1,500 more patients join treatment waiting list at Bedfordshire Hospitals T...

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Record number of patients taken to both A&Es in Bedfordshire
And more hospital staff were off sick with Covid than the previous week

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Revealed: impact of winter and Covid pressures at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust

Frontline healthcare staff in England must be fully vaccinated against Covid by 1 April (Photo: Getty Images)

Healthcare staff face sack without exit payments under Covid jab plans

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Coronavirus behind nearly two-thirds of NHS staff absences at Bedfordshire Hospi...

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Coronavirus behind more than half of NHS staff absences at Bedfordshire Hospital...

Work on eight hubs is due to begin this week (Photo: Getty Images)

New Covid Nightingale ‘surge hubs’ being set up to manage Omicron wave

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Nearly nine in 10 patients face hospital discharge delays at Bedfordshire Hospit...

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies

941 people arrived at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust A&E by ambulance in the week to December 5. Of them, 158 waited more than 30 minutes before being handed over to A&E staff, with 61 waiting more than an hour

One in six patients face ambulance handover delays at Bedfordshire Hospitals Tru...

Sajid Javid is not implementing Plan B measures for England (Photos: Getty)

Sajid Javid rules out Plan B but hints at mandatory jabs for NHS staff

How to book your Covid booster jab in the UK - and who is eligible to get one

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Unvaccinated university students have been urged to get a Covid vaccine in freshers’ week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Unvaccinated students urged to get coronavirus jab during Freshers’ week

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

56,509 patients were waiting for elective operations or treatment at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of June

Record number of patients at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust waiting for treatment

Data shows 368 children waited longer than the target time at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in May

Children waiting too long for hospital treatment at Bedfordshire Hospitals Trust

Around half a million 44-year-olds will receive a text inviting them to get their jab through the national booking service, NHS England said (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

44-year-olds are being offered Covid jabs - why the rollout has been extended by...

The actress has been criticised by an NHS boss over her long Covid treatment regime (Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

An NHS boss says 'serious science' is needed to treat long Covid - and Gwyneth P...

The NHS waiting list in England could reach 10 million people by April 2021, according to the Reform think tank (Photo: Shutterstock)

Think tank says NHS has become a ‘National Covid service’ - but medical director...

50 mass Covid vaccine centres and 2m jabs a week - is England’s plan feasible?

'We're on track to meet our target': what Matt Hancock said about the vaccine ro...

A small number of people have had allergic reactions to the Covid vaccine - this...

Most people over 80 won't get Covid jab until next year - here's why

Coronavirus cases are growing across the country (Photo: Shutterstock)

More people are currently hospitalised with coronavirus than in March - the late...

Medical experts are currently investigating a possible link between coronavirus and an inflammatory disease found among infants (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s what you need to know about Kawasaki disease affecting children - and if ...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been accused of muddling the government's message on social distancing (Getty Images)

These are the lockdown rules for over-70s after the government's conflicting sta...

500,000 people have already volunteered to help the NHS - here’s what they will ...

Tens of thousands of retired doctors, nurses and emergency workers are being ask...