A new tax is urgently needed to fund the NHS and social care system, according to a Tory doctor and former health minister. Dan Poulter said his experience working in
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A charity has called for a sea change in asthma care after research showed the condition costs the UK at least £1.1 billion each year. Asthma UK said a different
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There could be a “glut” of hospital services shut down, a health expert has warned. The NHS is under huge financial strain at the same time as grappling with workforce
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A government auction of radio frequencies could render thousands of hearing aids and implants useless, a charity has claimed. The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) said the auction to mobile
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A dip in the number of school nurses could be putting vulnerable children at risk, leading nurses have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said that school nurses play
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A&E services at County Hospital in Stafford have been suspended for under-18s because “senior clinicians have advised that the service is not currently clinically safe”. University Hospitals of North Midlands
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Social services staff want a High Court judge to intervene in a bid to protect a vulnerable teenage girl they say is being sexually exploited by four men. Lawyers representing
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A pensioner who shot his 81-year-old wife dead at a care home has been sentenced to six years in a psychiatric hospital. Ronald King, 87, formed the “settled intention” to
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A baby boy whose father advocates the use of “harmful alternative medication” should be taken into council care, a family court judge has decided. The man had sold Master Mineral
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An 87-year-old man is being held on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s died at a care home. Detectives are investigating what happened at Poppyfields care home
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