A new five-year children’s cancer strategy which aims to deliver “world class care” for young patients has been launched. The blueprint, the first specifically for children and young people, contains
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Unions are warning of “catastrophic” staff shortages in care homes unless the Government scraps a deadline for workers in the sector to be vaccinated against coronavirus. Unison said ministers should
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Care home staff in England will be able to temporarily “self-certify” that they are medically exempt from getting a coronavirus vaccine, it has emerged. Pregnant care home workers will also
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Wales is to offer Covid-19 vaccinations to all children aged between 12 and 15, the Welsh Government has announced. Eluned Morgan (pictured), minister for health and social services, told a
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Booster Covid-19 vaccines and jabs for all children aged 12-15 in Scotland are to begin being offered from Monday, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The change follows a recommendation from the
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Scotland has recorded more than 700 drug deaths in the first half of this year, new figures show. The figures, described as “appalling” by the drugs policy minister, Angela Constance,
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Booster vaccines are to be offered to people aged 50 and over, those in care homes and frontline health and social care workers. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be used as
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Children aged 12 to 15 in England are to be offered their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said. The move comes after the chief
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Nearly £50 million is to be invested in Wales’s social care sector, the Welsh Government has announced. Most of the funding will be given to local authorities to help meet
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Scottish ministers are being urged to come clean on the cost of setting up a new National Care Service and where the money will come to pay for it. Cosla
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