Two councils have withdrawn separate proposed legal challenges over Home Office plans to house asylum seekers at former RAF bases. West Lindsey District Council (WLDC) and Braintree District Council (BDC)
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MPs have urged the Government to “get a grip” on drugs shortages and commission an independent review of the medicines supply chain. The Health and Social Care Committee also called
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Labour has “no plans” to change rules stopping foreign healthcare workers bringing their dependants with them to the UK, Wes Streeting has said. Speaking to reporters at a campaign stop
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Artificial intelligence (AI) linked to household devices such as kettles and electric showers is being used to alert family or neighbours if an elderly or vulnerable person does not follow
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A senior heart surgeon has been charged with numerous sexual assaults against six female members of staff at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Amal Bose, 54, of Thurnham, near Lancaster, will appear
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The NHS has announced the 143 hospital sites that will test and roll out Martha’s rule in its first year. Martha’s rule will allow patients and families to seek a
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Cutting NHS waiting lists will be “the first step” in a Labour government’s plan to get the health service “back on its feet”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The opposition
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More than 10,000 migrants are thought to have arrived in the UK so far this year after crossing the Channel. Pictures showed groups of migrants, including several children, being brought
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Regulations requiring one first-aider per nursery “pose a risk to future life”, a coroner has warned after a baby died following a choking incident. Oliver Steeper (pictured) died in hospital
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The number of abortions for women living in England and Wales is at a record level, having risen by almost a fifth in a year. There were 251,377 abortions for
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