Cancer patients in England are not being given enough information about their diseases due to NHS staff shortages, a leading charity has warned. Macmillan Cancer Support said at least 120,000
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Sexually transmitted infections in pensioners have increased by more than 40% in the past four years, according to an investigation. Figures obtained by BBC Inside Out West found more people
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A senior minister has defended a plan to push on with a flight deporting 50 people to Jamaica despite widespread calls for the jet to be grounded. Chief Secretary to
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The NHS should fund hospice care to end the “postcode lottery” in end-of-life support, ministers have been urged. Independent crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (pictured), a doctor and professor
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The teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from the viewing platform of the Tate Modern gallery in London spoke about plans to push someone off a high building a year
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A GP convicted of 90 sex offences against 24 female patients was branded a “master of deception” as he was handed three life sentences. Manish Shah, who will serve at
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Poverty has increased for children and pensioners over the last five years, a new study suggests. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said that, despite rising levels of employment, in-work poverty
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Jeremy Hunt has called for an inquiry into the safety of maternity services amid reports of avoidable baby deaths at NHS hospitals. The former health secretary raised the issue of
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Schools should take a “welfare approach” to both the victim and the perpetrator in cases of child-on-child sexual abuse, a safeguarding specialist has recommended. Dr Jenny Lloyd (pictured), a senior
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An SNP activist has alleged that former Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay sent him dozens of unwanted messages over a period of four years. Shaun Cameron, 25, told the Daily
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