Ashish Joshi

A record average of 1,717 patients were in beds in England each day last week, including 69 in critical care.

The latest official findings on the handling of the pandemic will bring grieving families no comfort, it may even cause them more distress. But it will bring them closer to understanding why the UK's response to this unprecedented health crisis was so poor.

The World Health Organisation-approved FGM reconstruction surgery is freely available on public health services in countries like Switzerland, but for now such treatment remains unavailable on the NHS.

The crackdown will see all 1.5m NHS staff undergo updated antisemitism and anti-racism training, while guidance on staff uniforms will be reviewed.

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, hospital patients were rapidly discharged into care homes - but there was no policy requiring them to be tested for COVID before admission.

A community health programme which started in Brazil over 30 years ago is being trialled in England - and could result in big savings for the NHS.

The health secretary clearly has empathy and has listened to families torn apart by maternity failings after announcing a "rapid" national investigation into NHS maternity services.

Like Christmas TV repeats and snow-capped robins, the NHS winter crisis is a recurring seasonal theme.

A hospital boss tells Sky News his A&E staff are seeing "more and more people coming here as their first port of call". However, waiting times for these cases have risen and overnight beds in mental health units are down almost 3,700 in a decade.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns to the House of Commons on Friday. But a group of leading social care organisations has raised concerns over the proposed change to the law, flagging worries about coercion.

Amanda Pritchard's decision to step down comes weeks after MPs accused her of lacking the "drive and dynamism" to radically reform the NHS.

The government is backing a new study to track the long-term effects of vaping on young people.

Patients are demanding urgent and immediate care when it is not always what they need, doctors say - and it's making the NHS winter crisis worse.

Sir Keir Starmer announced a new partnership with the private healthcare sector to help reduce NHS waiting times to 18 weeks over the next five years, but questions are being asked about how achievable the government's NHS plans actually are.

Our health correspondent Ashish Joshi visits a call centre in the centre of the capital ahead of what will be likely the ambulance service's busiest night this year, on New Year's Eve.

The people most affected, whose entire communities have been blown away, are the poorest and most marginalised. Their voices of anguish and anger have not been heard.

Mayotte is France's poorest region and nearly 5,000 miles from Paris in the Indian Ocean - early on, island officials said close to 1,000 people may have been killed when Cyclone Chido hit.

A response to the call for aid from Mayotte is under way, but some are still waiting for news from their loved ones on the island. Sky News spoke to a student yet to hear from her family there.

Large parts of the archipelago were destroyed by winds of up to 124mph, leaving many parts still unreachable and it's feared hundreds, possibly thousands, have died.

The quarterly and annual immigration stats will be published this morning. Ahead of those dropping, the government is announcing a change to immigration rules to block employers who commit "serious offences" from hiring overseas workers. Listen to Politics At Jack and Sam's as you scroll.