The Government should do more to measure the impact of its health and social care foreign assistance programmes, the aid watchdog has said. Health, research and innovation funded by the
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UK hospices are in crisis and their financial stability is at a critical point, leaders have warned. Hospice UK, which represents more than 200 hospices across the UK, said the
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A security guard has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years after hatching “depraved and vile” plans to kidnap, rape and murder TV star Holly Willoughby.
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Patients are too often “gaslighted, dismissed, and fobbed off” when they raise concerns about NHS care, the patient safety commissioner has said. Henrietta Hughes (pictured) said the “patient’s anecdote is
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An independent investigation will be held into the performance of the NHS, the Health Secretary has announced. Writing for The Sun, Wes Streeting says the probe will be aimed at
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Conditions at an immigration detention centre have been branded the “worst” in the country by a watchdog who described the “chaos” he discovered there “truly shocking”. Chief inspector of prisons
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A “dysfunctional” culture at the nursing regulator is threatening public safety, according to a damning new report which found the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) took seven years to strike
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A migrant processing centre in Kent will be visited by the Children’s Commissioner over concerns raised about safeguarding children at the site. Dame Rachel de Souza is expected to visit
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The Health Secretary has announced he will meet junior doctors on Tuesday in an effort to end strike action and discuss reform. Wes Streeting will first meet the British Dental
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Sir Keir Starmer will be the UK’s new Labour prime minister after a Conservative rout saw former premier Liz Truss and a dozen serving Cabinet members lose their seats. Outgoing
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