Significant progress has been made in setting up a scheme to provide financial compensation to the survivors of historic in-care abuse, Deputy First Minister John Swinney said. He was giving
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Matt Hancock has endorsed the idea of setting up a “What Works” centre to gather evidence on the quality of palliative care in the UK and inform debate around assisted
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Northern Ireland could be recording more than 1,000 Covid-19 cases a day by the end of the summer, Department of Health modelling has suggested. The 1,000 to 1,200 daily case
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Boris Johnson twice described Health Secretary Matt Hancock as “hopeless” early in the coronavirus pandemic, according to private messages published by former aide Dominic Cummings. Mr Cummings (pictured) published a
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The Government is to announce that care home workers will be required to have mandatory coronavirus vaccinations. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is known to be in favour of the move,
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Gaps in support for grieving families will be addressed, bereavement minister Nadine Dorries pledged as she addressed the launch of the UK Commission on Bereavement. “We are aware that there
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Many care providers in England are living hand to mouth and the Government appears “complacent” about the potential for local markets to fail, MPs have warned. The coronavirus pandemic has
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Care workers in Wales are to be paid a “real living wage” under plans announced by the Welsh Government. First Minister Mark Drakeford (pictured) said boosting salaries for people across
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Boris Johnson has delayed the end of England’s coronavirus restrictions by up to four weeks after being warned the move could lead to thousands of deaths and unbearable pressure on
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Changes to the health care system that allow women to terminate pregnancies without visiting a hospital should be made permanent following the coronavirus pandemic, campaigners have insisted. Engender, which campaigns
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