Hospital admissions

Long A&E waits contributed to around 23,000 excess deaths in 2022, a medical college claims (Photo: Getty Images)

Around 23,000 excess deaths last year ‘linked to long A&E waits’

The extra cash aims to ease the strain on hospital wards (Photo: Getty Images)

NHS given extra £200m to buy care home beds to free up hospital space

Flu season is looking far more severe compared to recent years, health chiefs have warned (Composite: Mark Hall)

Flu season could be most severe in years as people urged ‘wear masks’

Health chiefs say anyone with Covid or flu symptoms should stay at home this Christmas (Composite: Kim Mogg)

‘Stay at home alone’ if you have Covid or flu symptoms, UKHSA warns

People are being urged to stay at home if they have flu-like symptoms this Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

Key symptoms of a cold, flu and Covid - and how to tell them apart

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9 symptoms that indicate you have flu - and how they differ to Covid

People are being urged to get vaccinated against flu (Photo: Getty Images)

Flu hospital admissions overtake those for Covid for first time

The Omicron XE variant was first detected in the UK on 19 January (Composite: Kim Mogg / JPIMedia)

Symptoms of new Omicron XE variant as hundreds of cases found in UK

Covid infections and hospitalisations have been rising across the UK (Composite: Mark Hall / JPIMedia)

15 England areas with most Covid patients in hospital as cases soar

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The 15 UK areas that recorded the most Covid deaths in 2021

New Year’s Eve celebrations will not go ahead in Trafalgar Square this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Trafalgar Square NYE celebrations cancelled over soaring Covid cases

With high levels of Covid immunity and a strong booster vaccination programme, a leading scientist has warned a lockdown at Christmas is unlikely to happen (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Christmas lockdown should be avoided as winter Covid wave unlikely

Malnutrition is most commonly affecting elderly people

Hospital admissions for malnutrition surge - scurvy also on rise

Thousands of women are admitted to hospital with endometriosis each year (Graphic: Mark Hall/JPIMedia)

Endometriosis: emergency cases at 14-year high amid Covid disruption

A rising number of hospital admissions across England have been linked to antimicrobial resistance (Photo: Shutterstock

English hospitals where thousands of ‘superbug’ admissions resist antibiotics