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All-party group including peers backs campaign by victims’ group, saying Cape ‘knowingly put people in danger’ MPs and peers have written to one of the biggest manufacturers of asbestos, calling on it to make a £10m donation towards mesothelioma resear…
NSW residents urged to be on the lookout for symptoms and guard against infection in period before children return to school Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe “incredibly unusual” spike in gastro cases in New …
The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, but a second COVID wave is unlikely in the near term, the expert says.
Amanda Pritchard says ongoing action over pay is having impact but parties are trying to resolve disputeRepeated strikes by health staff are making workloads “more challenging”, the chief executive of NHS England has said.Amanda Pritchard said the ongo…
Radical reforms needed to tackle waiting times, says former health secretary Patients should be charged for GP appointments and A&E visits, Sajid Javid has said, as he called the present model of the NHS “unsustainable”.The former health secretary …
Experts call major spike in deaths on 19 July and following day ‘extraordinary data’ and a wake-up call over dangers of extreme heatThe hottest day on record last summer resulted in 638 more deaths in England than normal, according to official figures,…
Exclusive: The shadow health secretary discusses his plans for the NHS, not becoming the fun police, and Tories’ handling of strikesUK politics live – latest news updatesWes Streeting turns 40 this weekend, so he has been steering clear of the debate o…
Coroner finds in-person GP appointment during pandemic could have saved life of David Nash, 26The parents of a student who died after being wrongly diagnosed in a series of remote GP appointments during the pandemic have said they do not think his deat…
Prohibitionist approach risks fuelling the black market, worsening health outcomes and sending people to jail unnecessarily, experts sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe criminalisation of nicotine vaping risk…
Health authorities in Nigeria have confirmed an outbreak of diphtheria, with 25 people mostly children killed in the northcentral Kano state alone.