Health Correspondent at ITV News
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ICYMI last week...
Exclusive: 'A seismic change': Inside the lab developing a new obesity pill
ITV News' Health Correspondent @BeccaBarry reports
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May 27
BREAKING: Resident doctors in England are going on strike again.
The BMA says they’ll walk out from 15th-19th June part of their long-running dispute with the government over pay and jobs.
This will be their 16th strike in recent years.
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Inside the hospital that has abolished ‘corridor care’
ITV News' Health Correspondent @BeccaBarry reports
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Rebecca Barry retweeted
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Deeply honoured to be appointed by the Prime Minister as Health & Social Care Secretary.
Huge thanks to @RachelReevesMP for my time as part of her fantastic team.
Can't wait to get started and continue @wesstreeting's brilliant work on such a critical mission for our country.
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Wes Streeting resigns as Health Secretary
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May 14
The NHS in England has met a key target for cutting waiting lists.
In March, 65.3% of patients were waiting 18 weeks for non-urgent treatment.
The government has promised to return to the constitutional standard of 92% of patients waiting less than 18 weeks by March 2029.
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Dozens of coroner reports warn of deadly risks of hospital corridor care, ITV News finds.
Over the last 6 years, ITV News found 27 Prevention of Future Deaths reports relating to hospital corridor care, overcrowding or lack of beds, ITV News Health Correspondent @BeccaBarry reports
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Parents in 'race against time' to save two-year-old girl diagnosed with dementia, @BeccaBarry reports
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'I couldn't talk, I couldn't move': University student who contracted meningitis speaks to ITV News
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NHS staff so 'embarrassed' by corridor care they avoid eye contact with patients, writes ITV News Health Correspondent @BeccaBarry
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Feb 26
This is report is shocking - mostly because the failures it identifies are now so familiar.
But some bereaved families claim Baroness Amos’ report is “shallow and superficial”
NHS maternity services ‘lack compassion’ as report lays bare racism and staffing issues
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Feb 10
RT @itvnews: Family of woman who died after £20 ‘skinny jab’ meet the Health Secretary, as @BeccaBarry reports
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'It makes you feel inhuman': Patient reveals NHS corridor care ordeal
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ITV News has filmed patients being treated in hospital corridors, hours before tens of thousands of resident doctors in England walked out on strike.
So-called “corridor care” is happening in many hospitals across the country as the NHS struggles to cope with rising demand.
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15 Dec 2025
The strike by resident doctors in England WILL go ahead this week.
BMA members voted by 83% to 17% to carry on with the industrial action. Turnout was 65%.
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10 Dec 2025
EXCL: ‘He had no dignity’: 90-year-old man dies in crowded hospital corridor.
The family of Roger Bass reveal the ‘shameful’ reality of NHS pressures behind their dad’s ‘degrading’ death.
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3 Dec 2025
EXCL: Video shows “war zone” corridor care at an NHS hospital.
Elderly patients waiting days for a bed.
Medical procedures carried out in toilets - because there’s no clinical space available.
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1 Dec 2025
BREAKING: Resident doctors in England will go on strike again in the run up to Christmas. They'll walk out from 17th - 22nd December.
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19 Nov 2025
‘Half the battle is getting us to have the conversation in the first place.’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells @itvnews why he’s published the first Men’s Health Strategy for England.
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