Nicola Sturgeon has said it is a time for “care and caution” if restrictions are eased further after almost 3,800 new coronavirus cases were identified. The First Minister expressed confidence
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A police watchdog has called for radical and urgent action to tackle the crime “epidemic” against women and girls. Councils, schools, health and social care bodies and all areas of
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Government advisers are to investigate the effect ending freedom of movement after Brexit is having on the social care sector and its workers. Home Office minister Kevin Foster wrote to
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Pressure is mounting on Health Minister Lord Bethell following the launch of two official investigations in which he is expected to feature. The Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham announced she is
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Proposals for a more integrated healthcare system have been welcomed, but concerns were raised about politicians having more control over the running of the NHS. The Health and Care Bill
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Rules on self-isolation are being eased for the fully vaccinated and under-18s as Boris Johnson’s Government continued efforts to strip away England’s coronavirus restrictions. People in those categories who have
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All non-urgent elective surgery at a hospital has been cancelled as it comes under pressure amid an increase in Covid-19 cases. NHS Highland said that Raigmore Hospital (pictured) in Inverness
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Working-age adults in England’s poorest areas are more than three times as likely to die with coronavirus than those in the wealthiest parts of the country, research has found. Health
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Care home residents are picking up their boxing gloves as the train for their own version of the Olympics. With just weeks to go before the Tokyo 2020 games get
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Charities representing those with weakened immune systems have expressed dismay that people will be able to ditch face masks in England after July 19. The MS Society and Blood Cancer
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