People with mental health problems are waiting days for treatment in busy emergency departments, according to new analysis. NHS staff described some patients as “massively distressed and struggling” while waiting
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Anyone who assists someone to self-harm – such as by giving them a blade or pills – could face up to five years in prison under plans for a new
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Healthcare staff are being left to deal with the “human cost” of abuse of opioids, some of which are more potent than heroin, nurses have warned. Drugs such as nitazenes
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Conservative MP Patrick Spencer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault allegedly carried out at central London’s Groucho club. The Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday that Spencer
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A nursery worker and a business owner have appeared before magistrates charged in connection with the death of a 14-month-old boy. Nursery worker Kimberley Cookson and business owner Deborah Latewood
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The death of a 91-year-old man, on the same night as two other elderly residents in a care home, is thought to be unnatural, Dorset Police said. He was found
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Some 71,046 UK work visas were granted to foreign care workers and home carers in 2023-24, with nationals from India, Nigeria and Zimbabwe accounting for more than half of the
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One of England’s leading nurses has slammed Government plans to reduce immigration as “pandering and scapegoating”. Professor Nicola Ranger (pictured), general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of
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Sir Keir Starmer said high net migration figures had caused “incalculable” damage to British society as he set out a series of measures aimed at reducing the number of people
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Plans to end overseas recruitment for care workers have been labelled as “cruel” and ministers told the sector would have “collapsed long ago” without foreign staff. The Government has been
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