The chairwoman of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has expressed concern at the possibility that statistics around ethnic background are not compiled in the Northern Ireland health service. The issue arose
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said he wishes they could have done more for staff working during the pandemic. Sir Michael McBride (pictured) said the pandemic “took a heavy
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Rachel Reeves promised to “chase down” firms who have ripped off the taxpayer with dodgy Covid contracts. The Chancellor used her speech at the Labour Party conference to announce she
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Decisions to restrict hospital visits during the pandemic in Northern Ireland were taken as “the least worst option”, the former chief nursing officer (CNO) for the region has said. Professor
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The removal the bursary for student nurses in England was a “catastrophic decision” and led to hospitals being depleted of thousands staff when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the pandemic probe
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Treasury leaders “trashed” the public health system as it was originally intended after 2015, a Conservative former health secretary has warned. Lord Lansley accused his successor Jeremy Hunt, now the
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The Covid-19 Inquiry has so far cost the taxpayer more than £161 million when spending by the Government and the probe are both taken into account, figures suggest. Some 280
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Clapping for the NHS during the pandemic may have been “dangerous” because “no organisation can be a national religion”, the health service ombudsman has said. Rebecca Hilsenrath, the Parliamentary and
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Rachel Reeves has started the appointment process for a Covid corruption commissioner tasked with getting back “what is owed to the British people”. The Chancellor (pictured) told MPs the commissioner
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Lady Hallett “has not gone far enough” in setting out how the UK can improve inequalities that were laid bare during the pandemic, bereaved families have said. Relatives gathered at
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