Scores of new ambulances will be on the road ready for winter following a multi-million pound Government investment. Some 256 “state-of-the-art” vehicles will be added to ambulance fleets, the Department
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NHS staff in Wales will be offered a pay rise as the health service marks seven decades since its creation, it has been announced. Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething said
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The UK’s most senior judge has called for an overhaul of mental health laws. Supreme Court president Lady Hale said it is “time for yet another Mental Health Act” to
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Thousands of people with learning disabilities are “trapped” in institutional care and are having their “human rights routinely ignored”, MPs have heard. Lib Dem former health minister Norman Lamb warned
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Local health heroes have been honoured by NHS leaders on the eve of the health service’s 70th anniversary celebrations. MPs from around England nominated people or organisations from their constituencies
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Detectives have been searching a nurse’s home after a healthcare worker was held on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six at a
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A second hospital is co-operating with a police inquiry into the deaths of 17 babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit. Lucy Letby, 28, continues to be questioned
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The integration of health and social care requires “serious political leadership”, the head of the spending watchdog has said. Sir Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office (NAO), urged
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Scotland’s new Health Secretary has said she wants to increase the speed at which health and social care services are being brought together. Jeane Freeman (pictured) insisted efforts to make
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The founder of the NHS would be angry over the health inequalities that persist across the UK, the Welsh health secretary has said. But Vaughan Gething said that Welshman Aneurin
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