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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Delayed discharges from Scottish hospitals dropped slightly in February, remaining below pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest figures. In February 2021, the average number of beds occupied per day due
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Ethnic minority healthcare workers have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, accounting for 56% of those who have died with the disease. The PA news agency has verified the
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Support for maternity staff throughout the pandemic is “barely scratching the surface”, leading midwives have warned. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said it was “easy to see why staff
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An anti-knife crime charity has sounded a warning over the easing of lockdown restrictions after figures showed stab victims accounted for more than 4,000 admissions to hospitals in England and
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The mother of a desperately ill woman who sold her home to pay for her daughter’s medicinal cannabis has urged the Government to make it available on the NHS. Elaine
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Boris Johnson is facing pressure to increase a proposed pay rise for NHS staff, after more than 150,000 health workers in Scotland have been told their pay packets will be
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