The squeeze on public spending and the drop in nurse numbers since 2010 has contributed to 120,000 unnecessary deaths in England, according to new research. There could be as many
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Labour would spend around £17 billion a year extra on the NHS, social care, schools and local government, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said. The extra spending would be paid
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Children’s services for those most at risk are on a “dangerous footing” charities have warned, with Government cuts being blamed for funding being slashed. Councils have had less money to
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A Holyrood committee has hit out at the “unacceptable” lack of information on the £8 billion plus budgets spent by integration authorities (IAs) on health and social care. MSPs on
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Councils are urging Chancellor Philip Hammond to use this month’s Budget to stabilise the “perilously fragile” situation in social care. An extra £1.3 billion is needed from the Treasury to
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NHS funding will be at one of the lowest rates in its history, leading think tanks have said as they called for a multi-billion pound cash injection for the health
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Millions of people are facing “unacceptable delays and difficulty” accessing care, health leaders have warned as they called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to address the situation in next month’s Budget.
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Children’s services are in crisis across much of England due to government funding cuts, Labour has said. Shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne (pictured) said there was a “growing emergency in
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A health minister has sidestepped calls to apologise for repeating a claim that “austerity has been the mother of invention”. Jackie Doyle-Price faced criticism in the Commons after she noted
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Social care faces a funding gap which will have “a real impact” on people across the country, the Tory chairwoman of the Health Committee has warned. Sarah Wollaston called for
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