All secure hospital units used to “contain” hundreds of vulnerable people should be closed, ministers have heard. Conservative Jerome Mayhew (pictured) told MPs more than 2,000 patients remain in assessment
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Steps to improve maternity care have been “too slow”, health inspectors have warned as new figures show that two in five services are not performing well enough. A total of
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A father has told how he was left “shell shocked” after he almost lost his son to a hospital-acquired infection following an operation to remove the boy’s kidney. Cameron Gough
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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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