Nick Triggle

@NickTriggle

BBC health correspondent, Royal TV Society and Medical Journalists' Assoc award winner. Interested in NHS, public health and social care. Views are my own.

bbc.co.uk/nicktriggle Joined August 2011

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Nick Triggle @NickTriggle Oct 8, 2024

⁦@PPaauk⁩ keen to talk to you about this. Any chance you could DM me? bbc.com/news/articles/…

www.bbc.com Call for independent review into physician associates Medical chiefs say probe needed amid "increasingly acrimonious debate" about the role of PAs.

Nick Triggle @NickTriggle Oct 4, 2024

@PPaauk would love to talk to you about the role PAs are playing in the NHS. Can you follow me pls so I can DM?

Nick Triggle @NickTriggle Feb 19, 2024

Officially the NHS backlog stands at 7.6m, but true scale thought to be much higher.

That’s because patients needing ongoing care are not automatically included - even if they face major delays.

⁦@BBCNews⁩ has been looking at these hidden waits 👇 bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

www.bbc.co.uk The NHS hidden waiting lists terrifying patients Patients are facing delays for ongoing cancer care, heart check-ups and eye treatment in England.

Nick Triggle @NickTriggle Feb 15, 2024

The pressures on the NHS this winter have not received as much attention as last winter – but on many measures the scale of the delays are similar. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

www.bbc.co.uk 12-hour A&E waits in winter 'becoming normalised' Experts warn long waits becoming normalised as NHS winter waits show little sign of improvement.

Nick Triggle @NickTriggle Feb 8, 2024

Cancer waiting times in 2023 worst on record bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

www.bbc.co.uk Cancer waiting times in 2023 worst on record in England Proportion starting treatment within 62 days in England drops to new low after 11 years of decline.