Skip to content
City AM
Main navigation
Download free app
  • News
    • News
      • Latest Business News
      • Economics
      • Politics
      • Insurance
      • Square Mile and me
      • Tech
      • Legal
      • Banking
      • Property
      • Retail
      • Crypto
      • Transport
    • From our partners
      • AON
      • City of London BIDs
      • Central London Alliance CIC
      • Olympia
      • Inside Saudi
      • Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
    • Featured

      AI giants ‘fundamentally unprepared’ for dangers of human level intelligence

      Submit a story

      Tell us your story.

      Submit
  • Opinion
  • Sport
    • Latest Sports News
      • Sport
      • Sport Business
      • The Punter
    • From our partners
      • The Morning Briefing: SBS x City AM
      • Aramco Team Series
      • LIV Golf
    • Featured

      Manchester United and City top football arrests league table

      Submit a story

      Tell us your story.

      Submit
  • Life&Style
    • Life&Style
      • Life&Style
      • Toast the City Awards
      • The Magazine
      • City Winners
      • Travel
      • Culture
      • Motoring
      • Wellness
      • The RED BULLETiN
      • Do it with Shared Ownership
      • Media Speak Hub
    • Featured

      This London bar is putting olive oil in everything – from cocktails to ice cream

      Submit a story

      Tell us your story.

      Submit
  • Personal Finance
  • City AM Events
  • Newsletters
  • Latest Paper
  • Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • My Account

Wes Streeting

  • Doctors’ strikes prove militant BMA is prepared to put patients’ lives at risk

    Opinion

    Resident doctors are endangering their patients’ lives with immoral strikes based on distorted calculations. The British public must finally see their militant union for what it really is, says Alys Denby “Resident doctors” as we must now call them (‘junior’ being a term fit for barristers but far too demeaning for these life savers) will [...]

  • Wes Streeting accused of issuing ‘misleading’ plan on NHS staffing 

    Politics

    Health secretary Wes Streeting has been accused of issuing “misleading information” on staffing practice at the NHS, with plans to end the use of agencies by 2030 a “short-sighted” move that could push up costs for the taxpayer.  Streeting today unveiled Labour’s 10-year plan for the NHS focussed on rolling out weight-loss drugs, reducing people’s [...]

  • AI system to analyse NHS databases and identify scandals

    healthcare

    The UK will be the first country in the world to use an AI system to analyse hospital databases and catch potential safety scandals early, the government has announced. The technology can identify patterns of abuse, serious injuries, deaths or other incidents that can slip through the net. When concerns are raised, the Care Quality [...]

  • Streeting’s junk food crackdown labelled ‘nanny state mission’

    June 29, 2025

    Retail bosses have hit out at a government plan to stop supermarkets from selling junk food in favour of fruit and vegetables as a “nanny state” policy that would add to red tape faced by high street shops.  Under new plans to tackle the NHS’s £11.4bn obesity bill, the government will set supermarkets a “healthy [...]

  • Wait, treat, repeat: The NHS healthcare hold-up hurting UK workplaces

    June 10, 2025

    Trying to get a doctor's appointment is like trying to win the lottery these days, and as a result, it has a knock-on effect on businesses

  • Starmer’s bid to ease welfare cuts piles pressure on Rachel Reeves

    May 26, 2025

    Keir Starmer has told his cabinet to jettison the two-child benefit cap, according to reports over the weekend, in a move that piles pressure on the Treasury and chancellor Rachel Reeves. The cap, which was introduced by the Conservative party a decade ago, prevents low-income families from receiving additional universal credit after the first two [...]

  • MP defends ‘human cost’ of assisted dying bill after impact assessment

    May 3, 2025

    Assisted dying is about the “human cost” and not pounds and pence, the MP behind the proposed legislation has said after an assessment of the potential costs. An impact assessment into the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was published on Friday, exactly a fortnight ahead of the next Commons debate on the proposed [...]

  • Russian confrontation with peacekeepers ‘would be an extraordinary escalation’

    March 16, 2025

    Russian soldiers confronting British troops in Ukraine would be an “extraordinary escalation”, a minister has said as talks continue on a possible Western peacekeeping operation. Wes Streeting suggested on Sunday morning that the prospect of such a confrontation would be sufficient to deter Russia from breaching any ceasefire agreement reached with Ukraine. He told Sky [...]

  • Health Secretary declines to be drawn on benefit freeze ‘speculation’

    March 16, 2025

    A senior minister has declined to be drawn on whether the government will freeze personal independence payment (PIP) as uncertainty continues to surround Labour’s upcoming benefits reforms. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is expected to announce reforms on Tuesday aimed at cutting a welfare bill that ministers have described as “unsustainable”. Ahead of the [...]

  • NHS delays drive demand for private healthcare to record

    March 4, 2025

    Private healthcare market has broken yet another record, with private hospital admissions hitting their highest Q3 on record

Posts pagination

  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Next

Trending Articles

  • UK firms unprepared for Companies House crackdown

  • HMRC to slap Wimbledon winners Sinner and Swiatek with £1m tax bill

  • London hiring plunges as Rachel Reeves’ tax grab weighs

  • Mortgage brokers on chopping block as AI overhaul gains pace

Subscribe

Subscribe to the City AM newsletter to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Subscribe
  • Got a story?
  • About City AM
  • Careers
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • News
  • Markets & Economics
  • Politics
  • Opinion
  • Life&Style
  • Personal Finance
  • City AM Events
  • City AM Curated
  • The Punter
  • City Winners
  • Casino

Follow us for breaking news and latest updates

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletters
  • Advertising
  • About
  • Tickets
Copyright 2025 City AM Limited