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Outbreaks may be addressed sooner by avoiding need for sending stool samples abroadPolio could be detected in wastewater in half the time using a new technique, helping public health authorities to respond quickly to deadly outbreaks, a study has found…
Allison Aules’ death raises wider concerns about underfunding of mental health services, says coronerMedical neglect and “gross failures” by a mental health trust contributed to the suicide of a 12-year-old girl in a case that has highlighted national …
Councils accused of downplaying women’s football compared with men’s, with scarcity of planned public viewing partiesThe Lionesses drew an average of 4.6 million viewers during their World Cup semi-final, yet fans are disappointed that councils have fa…
Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley’s drive to free up police time has won out after weeks of tense talksThe Metropolitan police has won its battle to stop attending most of the mental health calls it receives after a tense behind-the-scenes row with the health…
Gillian Keegan told Sky that employers ‘won’t ask you anything about your A-level grades in 10 years’ time’Here is a bit more from the official NHS announcement about the changes to cancer targets in England, which it says have been “developed by clini…
We look at the current levels of the coronavirus and who will be offered a booster jabWith Covid in the UK on the rise once more, we take a look at the current situation and what the plans are for vaccination. Continue reading…
Long waits in England for patients to see specialists, get diagnoses and start treatment More than a million patients in England have experienced a delay in their cancer care since Rishi Sunak became prime minister 10 months ago, new NHS figures reveal…
Watchdog says little progress made on recommendations of 2016 report that said government violated disabled people’s rightsDisabled people in the UK face worsening discrimination and a growing risk of poverty as a result of government failures to tackl…
Leith Arches cancelled scriptwriter’s comedy show after complaints from customersThe scriptwriter Graham Linehan is considering legal action against the Edinburgh venue that cancelled his comedy show after complaints from customers.On Tuesday morning L…
Exclusive: government’s response also indicates Canada intends to criminalise coercive control, a form of intimate partner violenceGender-based violence is an “epidemic” that “has no place in our country”, Canada’s new justice minister has said in a le…