A 10-year-old girl’s bucket list requests aimed at improving services and care for other child cancer sufferers have been put to ministers in the House of Commons. MPs heard Sophie
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There has been a “staggering” rise in the number of people living with a stroke-inducing heart condition, a new study suggests. Cases of atrial fibrillation (AF) – a dangerous heart
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Police have officially identified the four family members who were stabbed to death in a terraced house in south-east London. Denton Burke, 58, and his partner, Jamaica-born NHS worker Dolet
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Boris Johnson’s Government is “actively choosing” to sweep NHS workforce problems under the carpet, a Tory former health secretary has warned. Jeremy Hunt made the claim before Tory backbenchers staged
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A coroner has urged health chiefs to consider imposing minimum standards for perimeter fences at acute mental health units after neglect was found to have contributed to the death of
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Ambulance workers are being “overwhelmed” and suffering from stress when they finish their shifts because of the pressures they are facing, according to a new report. Unison said its research
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Social care providers are being forced to turn down admissions and even shut services as they face a “perfect storm” of workforce challenges and rising costs, according to a new
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Hospital failings and “neglect” contributed to the death of a premature two-day-old baby in a neonatal unit, a coroner has found. Cassian Curry was born in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ Jessop
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There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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A nurse warned a vulnerable severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy “could die at the weekend” two days before the youngster’s death, alone and “gasping for air”, after being fatally neglected by
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