A UK-wide antibody testing programme is to be launched for people who have contracted coronavirus, the Government has announced. The programme, which will offer tests to thousands of adults per
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Wales Health Minister, Eluned Morgan, has welcomed more than half a billion pounds of new funding for health and social services in Wales to deal with COVID. The Welsh Government
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Councils have called for more support amid a “harrowing” rise in deaths and serious harm of children linked to abuse or neglect in the year since England’s first coronavirus lockdown.
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A children’s services department has become the first in the country to make the leap from an inadequate rating to outstanding. The national first makes Sunderland one of only 18
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Plans to cut around 300 jobs at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) are “sheer lunacy”, a union official has said. The UK’s medical regulator aims to reduce
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A previously scandal-hit maternity unit has been downgraded to inadequate by health inspectors, while the overall trust it is part of has been told it must improve. The Care Quality
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England’s poorest children are being “locked out” of early years services because their parents do not earn enough, experts have warned. The Government’s policy of 30 hours of funded childcare
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More than a quarter of UK care home staff do not believe coronavirus vaccines should be mandatory for them to go to work, research suggests. Some 67% supported the Government’s
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Two doses of the Pfizer vaccine provided 97% protection against death with coronavirus in nursing home residents, according to a large study. Effectiveness against infection ranged from 80% for nursing
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Thousands of people are being “denied” a cannabis-based treatment which can help improve symptoms of spasms, a charity has said. Some patients with multiple sclerosis – which affects the brain
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