The incoming NHS boss has said she is “honoured” to be appointed the first female leader in the history of the health service in England. Amanda Pritchard is to become
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A lack of attention and knowledge at a hospital contributed to the death of a two-year-old girl who had a rare response to influenza, an inquest has found. A coroner
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One of the UK’s largest trade unions is asking its NHS members if they want to accept a pay rise offered by the Government, or oppose it and take industrial
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The British Heart Foundation, one of the UK’s best known charities, celebrates its 60th birthday on Wednesday. Founded in 1961 when 70% of heart attacks were fatal, the BHF has
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A survivor of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has told an independent review how social workers condoned her Islamic marriage to one of her abusers at the age of 15 and
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Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, life-long consequences for their victims”, a damning report into decades
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A man has been found guilty of murdering the teenage girl who called him her father, after she claimed that he had sexually abused her “over a number of years”.
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A mother whose 18-month-old son was allegedly killed by her boyfriend has pleaded not guilty to child cruelty. Tamika Beaton, 24, allegedly “wilfully ill-treated or neglected” baby Andrew Cawker in
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A new £48 million National Adoption Strategy has been launched to improve adoption services in England. The Government said the strategy will aim to better support families when adopting by
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A care home worker convicted of the infanticide of her newborn daughter, who was found dead in a park, has been handed a community order. Babita Rai, 24, was previously
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