Hundreds of NHS nurses, predominantly Filipinos and their supporters, have demonstrated outside the Daily Mail headquarters to protest at the newspaper’s ‘malicious and degrading’ coverage of Filipino healthcare workers. The
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Six of England’s leading mental health organisations have joined forces to produce a plan for what the Government should do in the first 100 days of the new Parliament to
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Guidance on how NHS staff should deal with violent behaviour by children has been included in advice from the National Institute for Health Care Excellence (Nice) for the first time.
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Sex education should be expanded to ensure all children in England receive “age-appropriate” lessons in order to combat child sexual exploitation, a leading charity has said. Secondary school-age pupils should
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Sellers of “hippy crack” for recreational use will face up to seven years in prison under a Government crackdown on legal highs. Peddling nitrous oxide – also known as laughing
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A plan to reduce deaths from a range of diseases is “highly unethical” because it discriminates against people aged 70 and over, according to leading medical experts. In a letter
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GPs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are less likely to immediately refer people with possible cancer for tests or to a specialist than those in comparable countries, according to
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The scandal of historic child abuse will “corrode everything” over the course of the new Parliament, a Labour MP has warned. John Mann (Bassetlaw) said it would be one of
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The Methodist Church in Britain has apologised for failing to protect children and adults following nearly 2,000 reports of physical and sexual abuse within the institution dating back to the
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The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has undertaken a scoping exercise with frontline staff in the criminal justice system to find out what kinds of difficulties they face when
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