Nearly a million people in the UK say long Covid is negatively affecting their daily lives as levels of the condition climb to a record high, new figures suggest. The
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Some care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable to see loved ones during the pandemic, the outgoing chief executive of one of the UK’s biggest care
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Apologising to care home staff following the Government’s U-turn on mandatory vaccination “doesn’t feel like the right thing to do”, the care minister has said. Gillian Keegan (pictured) said the
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Patients will “pay the price” for the Health Secretary’s “failed negotiations” with the Treasury to cover ongoing Covid costs, Labour has warned. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told MPs it
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The health service is calling on people to sign up as an “NHS reservist” to help bolster staff numbers and tackle the backlog of care. The new programme is not
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Health and social care workers in England will no longer be required by law to be vaccinated against Covid-19, after a consultation saw the vast majority of people support the
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The social care sector could face extra pressure from the “unmet need” of people who avoided such services during the first and second waves of the pandemic, a report has
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The UK’s data watchdog has reprimanded the Scottish Government and NHS National Services Scotland over their failure to inform people how their personal information is used by the NHS Scotland
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Ministers have been urged to be “straight” with bereaved families over when the Covid-19 public inquiry will begin. Retired Court of Appeal judge and crossbench life peer Baroness Heather Hallett
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid has defended the Government’s Covid response against accusations that MPs were unable to scrutinise controversial provisions and were left “shouting through the letterbox” of Number 10.
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