More than £44 billion was paid out in bonuses in the last financial year – the highest figure on record. While the average bonus for UK employees was around £1,600,
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Jeremy Hunt has published details of how a record £816 million investment in NHS research – announced in the spending review – will be spent. Research projects covering mental health,
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Doctors often get it wrong when predicting how long terminally ill people have left to live, new research suggests. A review of more than 4,600 medical notes where doctors predicted
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Some healthcare workers are failing to take young victims of trafficking seriously, a study has found. Young victims of trafficking are facing “many barriers” which prevent them from accessing adequate
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Child victims of sexual abuse will be able to receive support and protection under one roof as part of a pilot project brought forward by Amber Rudd and Sadiq Khan.
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Autistic people are vulnerable to sliding into cyber crime and potentially being targeted by organised gangs, experts have said. The warning comes as the National Crime Agency – Britain’s version
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School nurses are spending so much time on paperwork that children who are being abused or neglected could be missed, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Anne Longfield warned
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Hospitals will have to make “unpalatable” decisions about care levels and jobs unless the NHS gets an increase in funding, the head of one of the service’s largest trade bodies
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A “cruel and sadistic” carer molested boys at a Catholic children’s home and terrorised them with a punishment known as The Clappers, a court heard. James McCann, 80, is accused
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Ministers have rejected claims the Government’s Troubled Families initiative has been “a failure” and insisted it was successful. The Government was forced to defend the flagship programme after criticism was
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