Child safety campaigners have accused the Government of “dragging its feet” over a law giving police new powers to tackle paedophiles. An offence created to target those who groom young
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Thousands of new childcare places for young children are to be created under a £50 million scheme, ministers have announced. The move will help to deliver a Government pledge to
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Very long waits of more than 12 hours in A&E among elderly people have more than doubled in two years, figures show. Data from NHS Digital shows a huge jump
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Heart attack victims are not receiving the minimum standard of patient care in more than two-thirds of follow-up programmes, research has claimed. A study of 170 cardiac rehabilitation services across
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TV doctor Dr Ranj Singh agrees there is a “humanitarian crisis” in the NHS and said it was “disgusting” that Jeremy Hunt took his children to A&E because he did
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Jeremy Hunt has been accused of being “completely out of touch” with the scale of the problems facing A&E departments across the country. Dr Mark Holland, president of the Society
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The head of the British Red Cross has stood by his description of a “humanitarian crisis” gripping the NHS after the Prime Minister rejected the suggestion. Mike Adamson, the charity’s
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The trauma suffered by Ealing vicarage rape victim Jill Saward along with her heartfelt campaign against sexual violence must have had a terrible impact, her boyfriend at the time has
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More money needs to be set aside for mental health care if Theresa May’s bid to improve treatment and combat stigma is to be achieved, the Prime Minister has been
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Chairs of three influential House of Commons committees have issued a plea for Theresa May to call a cross-party review of the health and social care systems. In a letter
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