Scores of new ambulances will be on the road ready for winter following a multi-million pound Government investment. Some 256 “state-of-the-art” vehicles will be added to ambulance fleets, the Department
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NHS staff in Wales will be offered a pay rise as the health service marks seven decades since its creation, it has been announced. Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said
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Esther McVey has been forced to issue an embarrassing apology to MPs after a public row with Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The Work and Pensions Secretary said she had “inadvertently misled”
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Ministers have been accused of complacency by MPs in the face of a looming cash crisis for local councils in England. The Commons Public Accounts Committee warned authorities were facing
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The integration of health and social care requires “serious political leadership”, the head of the spending watchdog has said. Sir Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office (NAO), urged
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Scotland’s new Health Secretary has said she wants to increase the speed at which health and social care services are being brought together. Jeane Freeman (pictured) insisted efforts to make
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The founder of the NHS would be angry over the health inequalities that persist across the UK, the Welsh health secretary has said. But Vaughan Gething said that Welshman Aneurin
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Sexual harassment on the Tube could be tackled with targeted adverts, the Minister for Women has said. Victoria Atkins also hit out at the “offensive” portrayal of women in music
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Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi has called for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the party, describing the Tory response to claims of anti-Muslim prejudice as “woefully inept”. Baroness Warsi (pictured)
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A global DBS check for aid workers should be introduced to better protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse, ministers have been told. Labour former minister Stephen Twigg made the call
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