“Hard-won progress” in reducing cardiovascular disease risks being lost, a charity has warned, as figures show Scottish heart health has declined more quickly at the start of the 2020s than
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A doctor gave “false, outdated and misleading” information to a colleague about the condition of a 13-year-old girl who died from sepsis days later, a medical tribunal has heard. The
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People’s heart health in the UK has declined more quickly at the start of the 2020s than any other decade for more than 50 years, figures suggest. Analysis by the
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Care workers should be given a £2,000 pay rise in a bid to tackle a growing workforce crisis in the sector, according to a report. The Fabian Society urged the
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Families are being let down by critical pressures in community paediatric services, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Scotland has warned. Its report calls for investment, data improvements
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Some 320 patients a week may have died needlessly in England last year due to very long waits in A&E for a hospital bed, figures suggest. Calculations by the Royal
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A legal duty to look after vulnerable people who are claiming benefits must be introduced at the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), a group of MPs has said. Ministers
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A minimum of £3.4 billion will be required to meet the growing need for social care, according to new analysis. The Health Foundation think tank said the funding would be
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Care staff working at Enable Scotland are to go on strike in a dispute over pay in the first national care walkout in more than a decade, Unison has announced.
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Thousands of migrant nursing staff are ready to leave the UK, with new Government measures aimed at curbing immigration set to accelerate the “exodus”, a union boss has warned. It
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