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...Spire Healthcare has reported double-digit profit growth as it continues to benefit from increased outsourcing by the UK’s National Health Service....
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...He has vowed to go further if the Tories win the general election expected this year by eventually scrapping national insurance contributions....
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...Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, said: “Today’s report must provide a watershed moment for the NHS’s gender identity services....
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...Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said Thursday’s figures demonstrated “how the NHS is working flat out to recover services and bring down waiting times for patients,...
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