Scientists believe a new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs and has been successfully used to treat an infection could lead to the first new class of antibiotic drug
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The NHS is working with councils to improve “housing health” to boost the wellbeing of vulnerable residents after a report found poor housing is costing the health service £1.4 billion
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The Scottish Government has promised that NHS staff in Scotland will not be disadvantaged following a pay deal for English workers. Health Secretary Shona Robison said nurses, midwives, ambulance drivers,
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More must be done to stop dying people having unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital, a charity has said. Marie Curie said emergency admissions for people in their last year of
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A dozen Alzheimer’s drugs that can halt, slow or reverse the disease could be available to patients in three years, a report has revealed. All of the 12 treatments are
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A mental health patient died from a drug overdose after he was discharged by a mental health service due to missing an appointment, according to the health ombudsman. The case
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Over a million hospital porters, 999 call handlers, healthcare assistants, nurses, midwives and other NHS staff across England are being offered pay rises of between 6.5 and 29% over the
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to investigate the “totally unacceptable” claim that nurses’ wages were downgraded to pay off PFI bills. Whipps Cross Hospital in east London is said to
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Thirteen NHS bodies have been threatened with legal action over policies which “breach the human rights of patients”. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is launching legal action against
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Many health service staff display a “woeful ignorance” about the damage caused to patients by overdependence on prescription drugs, ministers have been told. Labour health spokesman Lord Hunt of Kings
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