Health workers employed by a private company have voted to strike in a dispute over pay and holidays. Unison said its members working for OCS at Lancashire & South Cumbria
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Five healthcare professionals have been charged with criminal offences following allegations patients were unlawfully sedated at a hospital. Lancashire Police said three nurses and two healthcare assistants who worked at
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A young woman who almost died of cancer has become one of the first in the UK to give birth following an innovative treatment. Sammy Gray, 26, feared chemotherapy had
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The disappearance of a missing woman is now being treated as murder with only a “slim hope” she is alive, police said. More than 60 specialist search officers from four
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A woman who abandoned her “vulnerable” daughter to die alone in pain in her squalid bedroom has been jailed for nine years and seven months. The emaciated body of Debbie
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A healthcare professional has been charged with sexually assaulting seven women at a hospital. Lancashire Police said Hernando Puno, 51, was charged with nine counts of sexual assault relating to
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A handyman who murdered a doctor and her 14-year-old daughter has been jailed for life and must serve a minimum of 34 years. The bodies of Dr Saman Mir Sacharvi,
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A previously scandal-hit maternity unit has been downgraded to inadequate by health inspectors, while the overall trust it is part of has been told it must improve. The Care Quality
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A hospital consultant has hailed the development of new hoods for medical staff as a “real game-changer”. The full-face protective hood, which has a large, clear visor and can be
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Downing Street has denied that a NHS Test and Trace delay in alerting local authorities in hotspot areas to positive cases helped contribute to the spread of the Indian variant.
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