Ministers have been urged to be “straight” with bereaved families over when the Covid-19 public inquiry will begin. Retired Court of Appeal judge and crossbench life peer Baroness Heather Hallett
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid has defended the Government’s Covid response against accusations that MPs were unable to scrutinise controversial provisions and were left “shouting through the letterbox” of Number 10.
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Health unions have reacted with anger after discovering that the Government is recommending a maximum pay rise of 3% this year for NHS workers in England. Unison said the figure
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Hearing aids may help to reduce a person’s risk of cognitive decline, new reserach suggests. People who suffer hearing loss are more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MIC) –
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More than eight million operations a year could be cancelled or delayed if a shortage of NHS anaesthetists is not tackled, senior leaders have warned. The Royal College of Anaesthetists
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A new taskforce has been established to explore disparities in maternity care. The Government said that it had launched a “Maternity Disparities Taskforce” to examine the reasons why women and
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NHS services are “failing to communicate properly” with people who are blind, deaf or have a disability, a patient watchdog has said. Communication blunders range from deaf people being asked
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There is “a crisis of public trust” over how the criminal justice system deals with rape and sexual assaults, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said. Max Hill QC said
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The ending of mandatory coronavirus rules in England will cause “huge anxiety” to immunocompromised and disabled people, leaving them feeling “abandoned” and “forgotten”, charities have warned. The scrapping of free
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An NHS employee who died from Covid-19 “did not feel safe” at work in the early days of the pandemic, his daughter has said. Mark Woolcock (pictured), 59, of Stratford,
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