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Newly elected Labour prime minister Keir Starmer will kickstart his plan to "rebuild Britain" on his first full day in charge Saturday, after his party's landslide election win ended 14 years of Conservative rule.

The Ministerial Decision defining the terms, conditions and procedure for the possibility of private practice for doctors, dentists and medical specialists of the National Health Service signed by the Minister of Health , Adonis Georgiades and the Deputy Minister of Health, Marios Themistocleous.

Pensioners and salary workers who have received retroactive benefits for the period 2015-2021 must submit amended tax returns.

These are retroactive amounts, whether resulting from court decisions or not, fees from national health service afternoon clinics and unemployment benefits which were paid later than the year to which they relate.

Britain finds itself amid a heated debate as the National Health Service (NHS) suspends funding for a program offering gender reassignment medication to children under 18. This decision aligns with the release of a significant NHS report tracking practices since 2020, revealing concerns about the lack of robust evidence supporting medical interventions in gender reassignment, BBC recalled.

A cancer patient in the Cretan city of Iraklio took his own his life as he was unable to bear the pain while waiting for a chemotherapy drug, his family have said.

The family said that the 72-year-man suffered terribly while waiting for the medicine and his condition deteriorated, which he outlined in a note he had left for them.

Paid evening surgeries at the public hospitals will launch soon, as Economy Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis co-signed on Tuesday a joint ministerial decision.

Aiming to speed up services to patients on waiting lists for regular surgeries, the Health Ministry is planning to introduce paid afternoon operations at the National Health Service (ESY).

The move is expected to increase afternoon surgeries by at least 20%, while also making the position of surgeon and anesthesiologist in the ESY more attractive. 

As part of the effort to reduce patients' waiting time for operations in Greece, the National Health Service (ESY) will on February 1 introduce a digital filing system for hospitals' scheduled surgeries and their order of priority.

Junior and senior doctors in England will go on strike together for the first time, a medical association has said, in an escalation to a long-running dispute with the government over pay.

Strikes over pay have hit many sectors of the British economy over the past year with medical workers among those joining picket lines amid the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Fifteen hours after she was taken out of an ambulance at Queen's Hospital with chest pains and pneumonia, Marian Patten was still in the emergency room, waiting for a bed in a ward. Patten, 78, was luckier than others who arrived at this teeming hospital, east of London: She had not yet been wheeled into a hallway.