Concerns have been raised that a significant proportion of health checks for new babies are still occurring online. A new report highlights how many appointments are still being held virtually
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Nurses’ moral has never been so low as they start voting on whether to take industrial action in the ongoing dispute over NHS pay, the Government has been warned. The
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A quarter of stillbirths and a fifth of premature births across England are due to socio-economic inequalities, research suggests. A review in The Lancet of more than a million births
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The Chancellor “missed an opportunity” to fix NHS workforce challenges, health leaders have said. The Budget documents state that: “The Government will provide hundreds of millions of pounds in additional
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A charity has warned of a “hidden crisis” of people dying at home without sufficient support, pain relief or dignity and a shortage of nurses to provide palliative care. One
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One in three babies stillborn at two hospitals in South Wales may have survived had it not been for serious clinical mistakes, a review has found. The Independent Maternity Oversight
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Steps to improve maternity care have been “too slow”, health inspectors have warned as new figures show that two in five services are not performing well enough. A total of
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Nursing shortages in the UK have left more than half a million people with cancer either unsupported or not supported enough, a charity has said. Macmillan Cancer Support is calling
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Chronic staff shortages in the NHS are getting worse, experts have warned, as new figures showed there were 10,000 more vacancies in June than a year ago. NHS Digital data,
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New nurses and midwives feel “unprepared and unsupported in first roles”, a union has said. Unison said that more must be done to support these newly qualified workers and students
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