The number of people waiting for hospital treatment in Wales has ballooned for the 19th consecutive month, prompting calls for the Welsh Government to act now to tackle the “colossal”
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Unvaccinated healthcare staff in England face being sacked without an exit payment, an official document shows. Frontline staff must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 with two jabs by April 1
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Tory MPs have urged ministers to U-turn on their policy of sacking frontline health and social care staff if they refuse to have Covid-19 vaccinations. Former chief whip Mark Harper
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Health Minister Robin Swann has made a new request for military assistance to help relieve Covid pressures in Northern Ireland’s hospitals. Mr Swann has made an official request to the
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The family of a nine-year-old girl whose death was examined in the Hyponatraemia Inquiry have welcomed a fresh inquest into her death. Raychel Ferguson, nine, from Coshquin in Co Londonderry,
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Collapsing Stormont before the end of the Assembly term would endanger vital reforms aimed at reducing Northern Ireland’s spiralling waiting lists, the Health Minister has warned. Robin Swann (pictued) said
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A London hospital could lose 1,000 staff members if they do not get vaccinated, its chief executive has acknowledged after a doctor challenged the Health Secretary about rules on mandatory
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Hospitals will be able to use spare capacity in the private sector under a new deal struck with the NHS, while hospitals have been told to find extra beds. The
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Holyrood Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said Scotland is not considering further reducing its quarantine period after UK Government Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi backed dropping England’s isolation from seven days
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A health board in Scotland has warned it could declare a major incident next week as Covid case numbers continue to rise sharply. Members of the military have already been
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