Care home investor Target Healthcare has snapped up 39 properties across the UK in an £81.3 million deal. The real estate investment trust has agreed to buy seven care homes
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Three quarters of asylum seekers in the UK waited more than six months for an initial decision on their case in the last quarter of 2018, a new report shows.
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Boris Johnson is promising a fast track “NHS visa” making it easier for overseas doctors and nurses to work in the UK if the Tories win the General Election. Ministers
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A Conservative candidate who made “ill-judged comments” during a radio discussion about a high-profile rape case has announced he is standing down. Former BBC Radio Norfolk presenter Nick Conrad (pictured)
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A coroner has called for changes to the NHS non-emergency 111 and out-of-hours services following the death of a two-year-old girl with a twisted bowel. Myla Deviren, from Peterborough, became
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NHS bodies have been asked to urgently draw up guidance for managers following the death of a nurse who set himself alight after losing his job over a disciplinary matter.
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The cost of medicines to treat diabetes is at an all-time high, new figures suggest. The condition, which can be fuelled by obesity, cost £1.07 billion in 2018/19 in drugs
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More than a million patients could face long waits in A&E as the NHS experiences its “worst-ever” winter, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. A worst-case scenario based on
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More than half a million people, including more than 70,000 children, have not been granted the right to carry on living in the UK permanently after Brexit, official figures suggest.
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Better clinical management is needed to reduce the high risk of suicide after hospital attendance for self-harm, researchers have said. A study suggests this should include a comprehensive assessment of
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