Tory MP Dr Liam Fox received a £20,000 donation earlier this year from a Covid-19 testing company that he reportedly contacted the former health secretary over. According to an email
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Long NHS waiting lists are the most common reason for people opting for independent healthcare or considering using the private sector, a poll suggests. The survey by Ipsos found that
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Almost two-thirds of the public support nurses taking strike action ahead of the upcoming ballot, a poll has found. The YouGov poll, which surveyed 1,752 adults in the UK between
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The new prime minister must “turn the page and take a more intelligent approach to social care” amid an “astonishing” level of need which is not being met, groups have
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Dozens of charities on the front line dealing with a “tsunami of need” caused by the cost-of-living crisis have called on the Government to provide urgent financial support to vulnerable
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A vulnerable and severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy died in “horrendous” circumstances after he was failed by child protection agencies who “could and should have done better”, a serious case review
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A “significant humanitarian crisis with millions of children’s development blighted” is on the way if the Government does not act to prevent more than half of UK households plunging into
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A quarter of children referred for specialist help with mental health problems have either attempted or thought about suicide, new research has found. Researchers from the University of Stirling examined
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Keyboards have helped to strike a memory chord and light up dementia patients’ faces with smiles. Casio gave lighting key keyboards to some of care provider Methodist Homes’ (MHA) dementia
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More than 400,000 people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest. A total of two
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