Since the post-COVID reopening of the economy, staffing shortages in the care sector in England have been of increasing concern. In October 2021, British charity Skills for Care warned that,
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Professor Dame Lesley Regan has been appointed the first women’s health ambassador for England. The expert (pictured), who is past president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG),
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A fully functioning Stormont Executive is needed to agree the investment to transform the health service, Michelle O’Neill has said. Health Minister Robin Swann earlier unveiled a major plan for
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Union leaders have insisted a record-breaking 5% pay rise that is being offered to more than 160,000 NHS workers across is “simply not good enough”. Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf
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Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes are rising while hospital admissions among the very elderly are showing early signs of an increase, new figures suggest. The number of suspected outbreaks of
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Patients must not be “left in a void” waiting for care owing to a shortage of GPs, a leading expert has suggested. Sir Robert Francis QC, who is chairman of
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The “inhumane” practice of sending mental health patients hundreds of miles away from home for treatment must end, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. A failure to stop so-called
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NHS trusts are struggling to improve performance and expand the numbers they can treat due to a lack of staff, worker burnout and a continued inability to discharge fit patients,
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A whistleblower was “bullied, harassed and blackmailed” after he raised allegations about an ambulance trust covering up evidence of mistakes by paramedics, MPs have heard. Labour’s Grahame Morris added that
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Sajid Javid has defended moves to hire a £71,000-a-year official responsible for the NHS Covid pass, despite the document no longer being required to enter venues. The Health Secretary told
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