Health leaders are calling for an urgent review to ensure Britain is properly prepared for the “real risk” of a second wave of coronavirus. Ministers have been warned that urgent
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Health officials have been accused of a “reckless” and “negligent” approach to care homes during the coronavirus crisis. The senior civil servant at the Department of Health and Social Care
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The benefits system has been “too inflexible and slow to adapt to support people” at times during the coronavirus pandemic, a report has found. The Government must increase the rates
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A new working group has been set up to “right the wrongs” suffered by the Windrush generation, Priti Patel has said. The Home Secretary said what was most needed now
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Wales’ decision to launch its test and trace programme three months into the coronavirus pandemic was “disastrous”, the former UK Government chief scientific adviser has said. Sir David King, who
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The Government is abandoning efforts to develop its own coronavirus contact-tracing app in order to focus on technology from Apple and Google. In a major U-turn, the Department of Health
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England footballer Marcus Rashford has said he is “grateful” that Boris Johnson made a U-turn to provide free school meal vouchers to eligible pupils over the summer holidays. The Manchester
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Three former prime ministers have denounced Boris Johnson’s plans to scrap the Department for International Development (DfID) as part of a merger with the Foreign Office. The move, which has
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Wales’ health minister has admitted he would have made “different choices” in the early days of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, but denied the Welsh Government had been “cavalier” in
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A woman whose 88-year-old father died in a care home is launching High Court proceedings over the Government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. A lawyer will lodge legal papers on
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