Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 contact-tracing mobile phone app has become the first in the UK to launch. It is called Stop Covid NI and is aimed at interrupting the spread of
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An NHS worker left seriously injured by a racially aggravated hit-and-run has said such incidents “can’t keep going on”. The 21-year-old, who wishes to be referred to only as K
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The Government could receive around £98 million a year if it lifted the ban on asylum seekers working, according to a new report. If people seeking asylum had the right
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More than half of care providers felt pressured to take in hospital patients who had not been tested for coronavirus during the height of the pandemic, according to an investigation.
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Family carers should be given key worker status and regular coronavirus tests, a charity has said, as dementia sufferers’ symptoms continue to worsen. More than four in five adults with
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A majority of people in Scotland support setting up drug consumption rooms, according to new research. Proposals to introduce Scotland’s first drug consumption room (DCR) in Glasgow, enabling people who
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Some cancer patients face a “cliff edge” of choosing between their health and finances as the shielding programme draws to a close, a charity has warned. Macmillan Cancer Support said
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The death rate in Northern Ireland rose by almost a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic between March and June, new figures have shown. The latest research published by the Northern
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The Government has signed a deal with pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi Pasteur for 60 million doses of a potential Covid-19 vaccine. If the vaccine proves successful, the UK
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Advising hospitals to discharge thousands of patients into care homes without knowing if they had coronavirus was a “reckless” and “appalling” policy error, a Commons report argues. Discharging around 25,000
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