Public sector workers have seen their incomes fall “drastically” because of the Government’s cap on pay rises, forcing many to cut back on food shopping, a study shows. A survey
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Unions representing nurses and other health workers are urging the Prime Minister to remove the 1% cap on their pay, warning it was affecting the recruitment of enough staff to
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Five London hospitals have received patients affected by the blaze that engulfed a tower block in west London. NHS England said no details were available at present on the condition
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A senior midwife at the heart of a baby death scandal has admitted repeatedly failing to properly investigate her colleagues’ shortcomings. Jeanette Parkinson, the former maternity risk manager at University
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Firms are being urged to step up their preparations for Brexit after a new study found that employers are “totally unprepared” for a fall in migration once Britain leaves the
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Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards have been launched, with human rights at their core. The standards, which will be implemented on 1 April 2018, will apply to the
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Thousands of operations have been cancelled because hospital beds are not available, the Liberal Democrats have said. New figures released by the party show that across 40 NHS organisations in
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Wicked issues – complex problems that cannot be solved in a traditional fashion – are nothing new. But the current challenges facing the NHS, social care and others are arguably
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The number of patients kept in hospital after being told they were well enough to leave has increased, according to new figures. Official statistics from a census carried out in
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Patient safety should not be compromised in order to meet financial targets, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The report comes as new figures suggest the NHS is now
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