NHS Staff work through overcrowding and increasing pressure, but still go above and beyond for their patients

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Spending a day on the front line of the NHS in the West Midlands, I expected to be shocked by ambulances waiting for hours with patients outside the hospital and for beds in corridors, but what I didn’t expect was to find out that staff are giving clothes off their own backs to keep the system moving.

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The NHS is restricting access to obesity services across England, leading to patients in nearly half the country being unable to book appointments with specialist teams for support and treatments such as weight-loss jabs.

An investigation by the British Medical Journal found budget cuts to local services fell disproportionately on obesity care, with patients living with the condition often deemed less worthy of care than others.

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