Staff at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have started voting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. Members of five unions – Unison, the PCS, Prospect, the Royal College
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Scotland’s health secretary has said the recovery of the NHS after its toughest winter ever could take years. Speaking to STV’s Scotland Tonight, Humza Yousaf said he still believed he
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Planned strikes next week by nurses, ambulance workers and other health staff in Wales have been called off after a new pay offer from the Welsh government. The GMB was
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More than £400 million has been donated to UK charities to help people in Ukraine. As a result, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has become the biggest charity donor to
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Around six in 10 people with long Covid in the UK are likely to have been suffering the symptoms for a year or more, figures suggest. Some 1.2 million of
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A petition signed by 100,000 members of the public, nursing staff and patients will be delivered to 10 Downing Street on Thursday calling on the Prime Minister to pay nursing
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A High Court judge has raised concern about a shortage of suitable placements for vulnerable children after being told how a 12-year-old girl with severe learning difficulties had been “marooned”
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Labour has condemned the £200 million package of measures to fix children’s social care, insisting the plan has “no vision” and “no ambition” for the most vulnerable children. Education Secretary
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Families with vulnerable youngsters will be given extra support before they reach crisis point under a sweeping shake-up of children’s social care. The plan, which follows criticism of the safeguarding
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The father of an obese teenager found dead at home has told a court he let his daughter down because he was lazy. Disabled 16-year-old Kaylea Titford (pictured) weighed 22
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