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In the first six months, savings for the NHS could range from around £919,00 to £10.3m.

Ministers point to progress on a number of fronts, from rising wages to falling NHS waiting lists.

The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 mental health patients who died under NHS care in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

A mum who says she has been left in chronic pain a year after giving birth has called for an NHS trust to be put into special measures.

Miss Cotson, who has amassed more than 700 signatures to her petition calling for special measures to be imposed at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, said: "My labour and postnatal care were traumatic."