Chronic staff shortages in the NHS are getting worse, experts have warned, as new figures showed there were 10,000 more vacancies in June than a year ago. NHS Digital data,
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Care workers are earning less than the minimum wage thanks to a “loophole” that means they are not paid for time travelling between visits, Labour has said. The party’s deputy
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Glasgow contains the three Scottish constituencies which will be hit most heavily by the cut to Universal Credit, a study has found. A £20 uplift in weekly payments, which was
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Two women bringing a legal challenge over what they describe as a failure to protect those living in care homes from Covid-19 have lost a bid for the Government to
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Managers fear an “exodus” of social care staff by the autumn due to opposition to mandatory vaccination, Covid burnout and a staffing crisis which is already compromising safe care. Senior
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A High Court judge has invited Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to contribute to litigation centred on a troubled teenage girl who has been “detained” in the side room of a
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One of the UK’s largest home care providers has pledged to train up and employ 500 refugees from Afghanistan as carers. Over the next five years Cera aims to recruit,
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Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to a severely disabled 14-year-old boy, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Cobb concluded that a move to palliative care is
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Most constituencies in Great Britain are set to see more than one in three families and their children hit with the “biggest overnight cut in benefits since the Second World
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Two women bringing a legal challenge over what they describe as a failure to protect those living in care homes from Covid-19 claim the Government has not provided key evidence
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