Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister has urged a cautious approach to further lockdown relaxations amid high Covid rates and pressures on the health service. Michelle O’Neill returned to Stormont on
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) worth £2.8 billion is not fit for purpose and cannot be used by the NHS, a health minister has revealed. Lord Bethell said 1.9 billion items
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A majority of the issues in Scotland’s hospitals and the knock-on effect to the ambulance service are not due to Covid, a top surgeon has said. Professor Michael Griffin (pictured),
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The Government has pledged to tackle the elective care backlog with the “biggest catch-up programme” in the history of the NHS. A record 5.6 million people were waiting to start
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A maternity support worker has spoken of her joy after becoming one of the first people in the UK to receive a Covid-19 booster jab. Catherine Cargill, who works at
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A worker described their team as “struggling and broken” on a mental health ward for young people without enough staff to keep patients safe, a watchdog has said. The Care
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Specialists at the world’s most famous children’s hospital should try an experimental therapy on an 11-year-old girl suffering from leukaemia, a High Court judge has ruled. Doctors at Great Ormond
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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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A mother whose son was among three who died at a private hospital for people with learning disabilities said his death was a “scandal” as a report highlighted a series
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A couple’s baby was delivered stillborn two days after the mother had been sent home from hospital despite her reporting a loss of fluid and reduced movement in the womb.
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