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Self-swab cervical screening now offered at every Hackney GP surgery

Rollout to all 1,100 practices in the capital is aimed at women six months or more overdue, who can now take their own sample without an internal examination

Author: Hackney Citizen

Self-swab cervical screening now offered at every Hackney GP surgery

'More like 20 years': Zoë Garbett on 100 days in office

From a £53m funding gap to a fight over single-sex spaces, Hackney's first Green mayor on rearranging the furniture and setting a new tone at the Town Hall

Author: Hackney Citizen

'More like 20 years': Zoë Garbett on 100 days in office

Watchdog downgrades Hackney mental health crisis care over safety failures

Two-thirds of crisis staff missed mandatory supervision, and a bathroom CCTV blind spot went unfixed for two years

Author: Hackney Citizen

Watchdog downgrades Hackney mental health crisis care over safety failures

A target that rewards the least sick: what Homerton’s longest waits tell us

Homerton hit its four-hour A&E target this year — but the four-hour target itself has been accused of steering hospitals towards the patients who are easiest to treat, while the sickest wait longest

Author: Niall Holden

'I'm running out of hope': NHS worker driven to brink after 20 months of hell from anti-social neighbour

Tenant left sleep-deprived and on verge of breakdown by 'nocturnal' neighbour

Author: Niall Holden

'We’re done with platitudes': NHS staff at Homerton Hospital stage rally over pay

Union representatives warn the offer amounts to a 'real-terms pay cut' as frontline workers struggle with the rising cost of living

Author: Patrick Cardwell

Protestors stand with placards and signs outside Homerton Hospital. "Pay for our skills, so we can pay our bills", one of the

NHS worker 'at breaking point' as noisy neighbour 'stops her sleeping for 14 months'

The social tenant says her noisy neighbour keeps her up throughout the night and says it has been 14 months since she got a peaceful night's sleep

Author: Lizzie McAllister

'There's real concern' - Hackney health campaigners hold first rally outside Homerton Hospital

Campaigners have expressed concerns over a potential contract between a Hackney hospital trust and a controversial US data company

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Homerton among top NHS trusts for cancer wait times but falls short of key target

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was fifth of 121 NHS trusts in England for cancer wait times.

Author: Gabriel Stewart

‘A litany of concerns’: Hackney councillors discuss Palantir contract with Homerton

'We are in touch with workers in many trusts across all levels who want to resist the rollout'

Author: Claudia Lee

Cllr Ben Hayhurst, Chair of the Health in Hackney scrutiny commission and Duncan McCann of the Good Law Project

'Speechless': Council tells NHS staff to stop writing letters in support of SEND families

Hackney parents whose children have special educational needs and disabilities say they are shocked by the request seen in leaked emails

Author: Hackney Citizen

Erik's mother Niki said the council's medical teams had downplayed his special needs

NHS to close sexual health clinic serving City and Hackney

Homerton Hospital to shut clinic in October due to falling patient numbers post-pandemic and rent costs - despite Hackney remaining STI hotspot

Author: Hackney Citizen