The Government is being urged to intervene to prevent job losses at the organisation that regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK. Unions said they
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Health and care workers who refuse to get vaccinated could be moved to back-office roles, the care minister has suggested. Helen Whately (pictured) said there were people who could not
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Consultation has begun on plans to mandate Covid-19 and flu vaccinations for frontline health and care staff, the Government has announced. The six-week consultation process will take views on whether
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Booster vaccines may not be necessary for everyone in Britain and rolling out third doses too quickly would be an “unnecessary burden” on the NHS, the head of AstraZeneca has
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The Government has faced calls to save families “from the pain” of paying medicinal cannabis prescription costs. Medicinal cannabis was legalised in November 2018 after the then home secretary Sajid
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England’s largest membership body for independent adult social care providers has hit out at a lack of clarity from the Government over its mandatory vaccination policy for care home staff.
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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has called on the UK to follow the example of Israel and widen the group of those being offered a third coronavirus vaccine jab beyond
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Charities supporting people at high risk from coronavirus have welcomed the news that those with severely weakened immune systems will get a third dose of a vaccine. The top-up dose,
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A new campaign is being launched to increase public awareness of a life-saving treatment which can reverse a drugs overdose. The Scottish Government and Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) have teamed
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Proposals to increase the age that people become entitled to free prescriptions has been branded a “thoughtless” false economy by a coalition of charities. The Prescription Charges Coalition warned that
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