Covid-19 infections have risen in all four nations of the UK, with the increase likely to be driven by the Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, figures show. The number of
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Health workers employed by a private company have voted to strike in a dispute over pay and holidays. Unison said its members working for OCS at Lancashire & South Cumbria
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Professor Dame Lesley Regan has been appointed the first women’s health ambassador for England. The expert (pictured), who is past president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG),
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A fully functioning Stormont Executive is needed to agree the investment to transform the health service, Michelle O’Neill has said. Health Minister Robin Swann earlier unveiled a major plan for
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A mother accused of murdering her 10-week-old daughter told a social worker “you want to take her, then take her” during a visit hours before the baby’s collapse, a court
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The Government has partially accepted most of the recommendations made in a damning report which highlighted serious errors and delays in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. A study by
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Union leaders have insisted a record-breaking 5% pay rise that is being offered to more than 160,000 NHS workers across is “simply not good enough”. Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf
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Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes are rising while hospital admissions among the very elderly are showing early signs of an increase, new figures suggest. The number of suspected outbreaks of
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A joiner who took his own life in jail while awaiting trial for killing his partner received “satisfactory care” from the prison service, a jury has found. Terence Papworth was
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The inquests into the deaths of two care home residents involved in a boating accident have been opened. Alex Wood, 43, and Alison Tilsley, 63 (pictured), died on Roadford Lake,
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