Latest measles deaths data shows three deaths so far this year with 883 infections so far confirmed:

Short staffing on maternity wards is repeatedly raised as a reason for poor care and pressure on midwives. But we have the highest number of midwives and lowest ratio of births per midwife ever. So what's going on?

Ockenden raised concerns about experience on wards, the data suggests there is something in this.

🚨 Breaking: Two men have been arrested over 'operating practices' in mortuary service at @nottmhospitals. Last year The Sunday Times reported a baby's body was allowed to decompose for months & emails show senior execs were fully aware. That story here: www.thetimes.com/article/82a2...

In March 2025 my mum was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. She lived for just 245 days but in that time showed remarkable strength and humour. Today is #GlobalMNDAwarenessDay & every day 6 people are told they have MND. They need better support and care. @mndassoc.bsky.social

Not everyone is a good apple. We need to be thinking about bad apples says @marydixonwoods.bsky.social at #MJASymposium

New patient experience standards for the NHS are set to be launched in a few weeks - aimed at keeping patients informed while they wait to tackle one of the biggest areas of complaint about lack of info. In the print edition of your Sunday Times:

Strikes by resident doctors cancelled after new offer. Some details sent to members plus response by the Doctors Vote group:

Prime Minister asked again at #PMQs about Sunday Times ongoing campaign for redress for sodium valproate victims by @sarahgreenld.bsky.social The PM's answer didn't even reference valproate children - 2.5 years on from report on how a scheme would work Govt has yet to act:

Williamson played with a patient's toes and even undressed one woman in a toilet cubicle. Nurses warned patients "watch him he's a ladies man". 👀

Looking forward to an interesting day at @thetimes.com Life Sciences Summit. Some great speakerd and Lord Vallance closing the day later. I'm chairing a panel later on what we need to do to boost UK life sciences industry. What would you say?

Streeting resigns:

The Public Office (Accountability) Bill will create new laws that potentially significantly impact NHS managers and those who have for years covered up, lied and avoided accountability in past scandals:

Eeek. 16 years covering health... thanks to all the patients, whistleblowers, contacts and people who've trusted me with their stories. Plenty more to do.

First case of Avian influenza reported in Europe. A patient in Italy hospitalised after being exposed outside Europe.

Newly diagnosed with #MND I asked mum what she wanted to do. She said she really wanted to see where I worked. So a year ago today she was treated like a VIP at The Sunday Times and then we had 2 days in London seeing the sights. Laughing and talking. So glad we did that.

Sir Brian Langstaff has closed the infected blood inquiry today. His letter to ministers includes a really fascinating appendix commentary on his view on public inquiries going forward: www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/sites/defaul...

"The government’s tolerance for costly and disruptive action that undermines a critical public service is fast diminishing" says @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social as he outlines the deal @bma.org.uk have rejected: www.gov.uk/government/s...

In East London for speech on NHS reform by Wes Streeting. "The NHS is in a better place than when I started and I am only getting started," says @wesstreeting listing a series of positive changes in NHS metrics in the first 20 months of Labour in power

The MNSI investigations of maternity incidents will continue until 2030 - 4,600 local investigations carried out. I remember starting out reporting on maternity a decade ago, I found many families were denied proper investigations. But, are we really learning and improving?

ICYMI at the weekend:

👀 Did you post this to my office? Written with pink/purple ink? I'd really like to talk to you if so, I can protect your identity but what you sent was really important but not enough on its own. Get in touch via DM email etc... Pls RT.

🚨 GP practices to be paid up to a max of £12,000 for boosting childhood vaccination rates as Enfield measles outbreak underlines risks of 10-year low uptake in child jabs. In The Sunday Times print edition:

🚨 BREAKING: Hip and knee ops across England will be rationed by the NHS as a major supplier of cement used in orthopaedic surgery has suffered an outage that could last months. To protect emergency trauma patients hospitals will be told to prioritise patients by NHSE today:

I always like doing a little positive ending to a story (which no one ever reads of course) so here is my bit on the excellent work of GP Zoya Hussain on raising vax rates in her GP work:

The Royal London Hospital declared a critical incident today after a major power failure today

The House of Lords is to run a major inquiry into childhood vaccination rates in England and how to improve them:

Fascinating response from Cheshire Police - detectives believe Lucy Letby may have attacked nine babies and murdered two. Clearly the CPS did not agree but it seems clear from this where investigating officers came down:

How can Britain tackle falling child vaccine uptake? The NHS is partly to blame and must make access easier. Great to talk to Helen Skirrow off the back of a new Lancet paper on UK vaccine hesitancy: