People in the UK have a higher risk of dying early from conditions such as cancer, heart disease and stroke than in Italy, France, South Korea and Australia, a major
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Schools need more robust guidance on how to respond to abuse through sexual image sharing, a study suggests. The research looked at how the difference between consensual and non-consensual sharing
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British citizens would get an “NHS health card” allowing them free medical treatment under a Ukip plan that would block foreign nationals from free care. Non-Britons would require private medical
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Social Care Wales have issued a call for your views on changes to the practice guidance for social workers, social care managers and residential child care managers. The practice guidance
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Almost 4,000 women were identified in 2016 as not having been sent routine invitations for breast screening, an MSP has highlighted. Conservative MSP Jamie Greene raised the figures, contained in
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The jury at the inquest into the death of Joan Blaber criticised the hospital’s management for failings which they say could have led to her “safety being compromised”. The conclusion
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A hospital trust sent out an “extremely misleading” letter to public figures as the inquest into the death of a patient was due to open because they were worried about
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The chief nurse at the NHS trust responsible for the hospital where a pensioner died after drinking Flash has apologised to her family and vowed the same mistake cannot happen
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A London-based nurse who used voodoo threats to traffick vulnerable women from Nigeria to Germany to work as prostitutes has had her 14-year prison sentence increased. Solicitor General Robert Buckland
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A woman accused of obtaining abortion pills for her teenage daughter is in “fear and pain” over her pending prosecution. On Thursday the High Court in Belfast is set to
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