A strike of junior doctors will go ahead next week as planned, after ongoing talks did not manage to resolve the dispute over contracts. The meeting between the British Medical
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Leading charities have called on David Cameron to take “bold” action to tackle the growing pressures on health and social care, warning that vulnerable elderly and disabled people will “bear
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No level of regular drinking is without risks to health, the UK’s chief medical officers have said as they published a raft of changes to advice on alcohol. The new
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Seven members of staff at a facility for young offenders run by security group G4S have been suspended amid allegations of abuse and mistreatment of youngsters. Police in Kent are
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Almost one in five nursing posts in London is vacant, according to freedom of information research. The study, from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), found the capital’s nursing shortage
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Kinship carers should be made exempt from the Government’s benefit cap and other welfare restrictions to help prevent children being placed into the care of the state, Alan Johnson has
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An award-winning charity, which rescues women from forced marriage and hundreds of young people from radicalisation, faces closure in a matter of months if it does not receive further funding.
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England must decide how much it spends on NHS and social care services to prevent “a state of crisis”, a former health minister has insisted. Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb warned
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A life of loneliness threatens aspects of someone’s health as much as physical inactivity in adolescence or diabetes in old age, new research claims. Lacking a network of friends or
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Labour MP Simon Danczuk is facing a police probe after being accused of a historical rape. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “We can confirm that we have received a
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