Up to 100,000 nursing staff will take part in their biggest ever strike next month in a long-running dispute over pay, it has been announced. Members of the Royal College
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Lord Brailsford has “pressed the reset button” on Scotland’s coronavirus inquiry after it was plunged into crisis when the judge originally set to run it quit alongside four senior lawyers,
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A blunder at a lab which saw thousands of positive Covid-19 cases reported as negative could have led to the deaths of 20 people, according to new estimates. The error
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Proposals for a domestic abuse register have received a huge amount of support following a consultation, the Scottish Conservatives have said. Pam Gosal MSP’s Domestic Abuse Register Bill would introduce
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A charity is launching a “festival of kindness” to help the homeless this Christmas. The cost-of-living crisis has had devastating consequences for vulnerable people and those who experience homelessness across
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Peers have criticised “regressive” measures set out in the autumn statement enabling local authorities to receive more social care funding by raising council tax and delaying long-awaited reforms. Chancellor Jeremy
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A Cabinet minister has insisted there are no “immediate plans” for the Army to step in to help the NHS during a potential winter of strikes, but conceded it is
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More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed. According to analysis from the Nuffield Trust health
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The cost-of-living crisis could be a “matter of life and death” for women and children experiencing domestic abuse, campaigners have warned. Scottish Women’s Aid is calling on the Scottish Government
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Details will be set out soon on which services within the NHS will be exempt from strike action, as the health service prepares for the likely cancellation of thousands of
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