An NHS trust has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment following the death of a baby boy. Representatives for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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Labour has said there are “serious questions to answer” after it was revealed that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has shares in a family company which has contracts with the NHS.
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An accountant who committed “industrial scale dishonesty” to fund an extravagant lifestyle has been jailed for 11 years and five months. Stephen Day, 51, plundered more than £1 million from
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Charities and health organisations warned of the Covid-19 pandemic’s “catastrophic” impact on NHS services as new figures revealed that the number of people in England waiting to begin hospital treatment
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled her party’s “transformational” manifesto, but said she could go further if Scotland was independent. She outlined a £2.5 billion increase in NHS spending in
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David Cameron has accepted he should have communicated with the Government “through only the most formal of channels” as he acknowledged mis-steps over the Greensill Capital lobbying controversy. Breaking his
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There could be significant financial pressures on the Welsh NHS because of the Covid-19 pandemic and a predicted funding shortfall of over £500 million, a report suggests. Academics at Cardiff
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Thousands of frontline health workers and their families will be granted visa extensions, the Home Office has announced. One-year visa extensions will be automatically granted free of charge to eligible
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Scotland’s outgoing Health Secretary has admitted moving patients back from hospitals into care homes during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic was a “mistake”. Jeane Freeman (pictured) said the
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The welfare of NHS staff must be a priority after the Holyrood election and politicians’ praise for frontline workers will be “empty words” without improvements to the health service, the
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