Care home visiting is unlikely to “completely go back to normal” following the final stage of the road map out of lockdown, the care minister has said. There will still
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The Queen has awarded the George Cross to the National Health Services of the UK, recognising all NHS staff in all four nations. In a personal, handwritten message, the Queen
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Holyrood will consider whether to double the Carer’s Allowance Supplement given to unpaid carers at the end of the year. The Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee is considering
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A hospital has apologised to a woman who was prevented from seeing her dying son in his final weeks. Ollie Bibby, 27, of South Benfleet in Essex, died of leukaemia
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Around one in four staff in older adult care homes in England eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine have not had both jabs, new figures suggest. A total of 73.9%
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Thousands of pregnant women and new mothers were unable to access vital mental health support during the coronavirus pandemic, research has shown. Around 16,000 women missed out on services to
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Hundreds of thousands of people across the UK are experiencing long Covid lasting a year or more, new figures suggest. An estimated 385,000 people in private households in the UK
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Almost 2,000 people living in Scotland attended at least one Euro 2020 event while infectious with coronavirus, according to official data. New figures from Public Health Scotland (PHS) show 1,991
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Scotland’s public health minister Maree Todd has confirmed she is self-isolating after a positive test for coronavirus. The MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross is the minister for public health,
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An NHS hospital which upgraded the type of face masks used by staff on Covid-19 wards saw a dramatic fall in hospital-acquired coronavirus infections among those workers, by up to
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