‘Watershed’ lung cancer drug Durvalumab to be made available on the NHS
A new immunotherapy drug that can quadruple the time lung cancer is kept at bay and could cure some patients is being made available on the NHS. The National Institute
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Retired nurse at centre of life-support dispute dies following ruling by judge
An elderly widow who was at the centre of a dispute in a specialist court has died following a life-support ruling by a judge. Family members were at odds over
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Thousands of packs of cystic fibrosis drug destroyed amid pricing deadlock
Thousands of packs of a key cystic fibrosis drug expired and were destroyed amid a row over its cost to the NHS, it has been revealed. Talks between Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Over 160,000 nurses have quit NHS since 2010 for reasons other than retirement
More than 160,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010/11 for reasons other than retirement, according to new figures. Data analysed by the Labour Party and verified by the House
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Labour call for urgent action after 40% fall in number of learning disability nurses
Learning disability nurse numbers have fallen by 40% since the Government came to power, Labour has claimed. Shadow mental health minister Paula Sherriff said health charities had warned urgent action
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Mother pleads for return of eight-year-old son abducted by father three weeks ago
The mother of an eight-year-old boy who is missing after being abducted by his father 24 days ago has pleaded for him to be returned home. Karol Marmolejo last saw
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Football coach used ‘kingmaker’ status to carry out widespread campaign of sexual abuse
A former professional football coach used his reputation as a “kingmaker” to act with “near impunity” as he carried out a widespread campaign of sexual abuse against teenage players, a
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MPs launch inquiry into ‘catastrophic’ failing of youngsters missing from children’s homes
Record numbers of vulnerable children are going missing after being “farmed out” to children’s homes many miles from the areas in which they live, MPs have warned. The All-Party Group
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Home Office secretly channelled £30,000 into paedophilia campaign group in 1970s
The Home Office secretly channelled £30,000 in grant money to a controversial organisation campaigning to legalise paedophilia in the late 1970s, a former civil servant has claimed. Tim Hulbert, who
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Vulnerable man died days after concerns raised about nutritional support, inquest told
A man with Down’s syndrome died days after his family had raised concerns about the supposed lack of nutrition he was given at a hospital where he was being treated
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