Pharmacy leaders have raised concerns that patients could be coming to harm as a result of medicine supply issues. A new poll found that almost nine in 10 (87%) believe
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Workers with average earnings would have to save for 400 years to benefit from Jeremy Hunt’s tax cut for people with pension pots worth more than £1 million, Labour has
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Six police officers have been disciplined, with three leaving the job, for belonging to a racist and ableist WhatsApp group called “The Dispensables”. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
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Former cabinet minister Matt Hancock is being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog. The ex-health secretary is under investigation for allegedly putting pressure on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg
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Hospital bosses have expressed concern about keeping patients safe as they struggle to secure cover for overnight junior doctor shifts during strikes. NHS Providers warned that the 96-hour junior doctor
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The chief executive of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) said it is “alarming” that a survey found almost one in four jobs are vacant across the
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A barge docked off the Dorset coast will hold around 500 asylum seekers for at least 18 months, the Home Office has confirmed despite facing legal threats from local Tories.
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Unions representing social care staff are calling for an urgent meeting with ministers to discuss the workforce “crisis” in the sector. The TUC and officials from Unison, Unite and the
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A total of 21 people have been found guilty of their roles in one of the biggest child sex abuse cases to be investigated by West Midlands Police. Seven victims,
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A disabled woman who died days after she was dropped by care home workers was a “victim of a catalogue of catastrophic failures”, her sister has told an inquest. Lyn
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