More than a dozen NHS Trusts are taking the Government to court to argue that they should have an 80% reduction in business rates – the same discount given to
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A hospital visitor inadvertently gave staff a cake laced with cannabis as a thank you for their care, a health trust has said. The gift was taken into Warrington Hospital
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A care worker accused of placing a plastic bag over the head of an elderly patient has told a court he held it in front of her face in a
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Corporate lobbyists are “almost wetting themselves” at the prospect of the cash to be made from their clients gaining greater access to the NHS in post-Brexit trade deals, peers have
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A student paramedic has died following a collision between an ambulance and a car. The 31-year-old woman was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham but died from her injuries
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NHS hospitals are in such a poor state of repair that many have suffered collapsed ceilings, sewage leaking on to wards, and broken heating and lifts, an investigation has found.
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A High Court judge has ruled that a sick baby whose mother is a Jehovah’s Witness should have a blood transfusion. Mr Justice MacDonald concluded that a transfusion was in
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Victims of the contaminated blood scandal have told an inquiry how medical records were “destroyed”. A father fought back tears as he told the Infected Blood Inquiry his teenage son
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An Iraq war veteran has been jailed for life after stabbing a Britain’s Got Talent finalist to death in a violent rage. Desmond Sylva, 41, knifed his on-off girlfriend Simonne
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Claims by doctors that charging foreign patients for NHS care is “fundamentally racist” have been branded “bonkers” by House Of Cards author Lord Dobbs. The accusation was “financially disgraceful and
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