The Government has published guidelines for medical professionals in Northern Ireland ahead of the looming decriminalisation of abortion. Legislation passed by Westminster MPs in the summer will see a change
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A Saudi Arabian couple have gone on trial accused of cruelty towards a child who was allegedly injected with “dangerous” amounts of insulin. Amal Asiri, 29, and her husband Mohammed
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The Dukes and Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex will voice a new mental health campaign during a “national takeover” that will be simultaneously broadcast to millions of television viewers. The
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The vacancy rate for consultant psychiatrists has doubled in six years, leaving gaps in care for children and those with “deadly” eating disorders, according to a new report. Around one
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Department of Health officials ignored people falling ill with hepatitis in the early 1970s, allowing the contaminated blood scandal to continue for years, new documents reveal. The minutes of a
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Healthcare workers have a “very strong professional responsibility” to get the winter flu jab, officials have warned, after less than half of staff in some parts of the country were
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The death rate for women with breast cancer has plunged 44% in nearly 30 years, according to new figures. Analysis by Cancer Research UK suggests that more than 130,000 UK
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A nurse has been spared jail for providing duplicated prescription forms for cosmetic treatment medication while she was on sick leave from her NHS job. Nicola Bevan, 43, put customers
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Learning disability patients are subjected to potentially fatal face-down restraint an average of 10 times a day, figures show. Staff reported physically restraining patients with learning disabilities or autism 17,685
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A couple who want to move their severely disabled five-year-old daughter to an Italian hospital have won a High Court life-support treatment fight. Specialists caring for Tafida Raqeeb at the
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