More than a quarter of people who need social care have seen their health deteriorate during the coronavirus pandemic, with one in seven requiring hospital treatment due to a lack
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Scores of charities have written an open letter to encourage people with underlying health conditions to come forward for a coronavirus vaccine. Cancer Research UK, Mencap and the Terrence Higgins
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Sir Keir Starmer has said NHS workers should get a “fair” pay rise, but declined to back a 12.5% increase proposed by the Royal College of Nurses. Launching his campaign
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One in five health and care workers suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the pandemic struck last year, a new study suggests. Almost three in five health and social care
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Two teenage children have been taken from the care of their parents after council social services staff told a family court judge of concerns about their weight. Judge Gillian Ellis
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A Second World War veteran has been reunited with his daughter for the first time in almost a year after restrictions on visitors to his care home were eased. Eric
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Coronavirus deaths in care homes across Scotland are at their lowest rate since August, according to official figures. National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures show that between Monday March 1
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The Government was too “definitive” when it set a date for indoor care home visits to restart, the head of a leading care provider membership body has said. Professor Martin
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The Prime Minister has defended NHS Test and Trace, which could end up costing the taxpayer £37 billion, after MPs said there was “no clear evidence” it cut coronavirus infections.
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A nursing home where seven residents died after suffering poor care would have been closed much sooner had the scandal happened today, an inquest has heard. Margaret Rooney, deputy chief
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