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Health secretary made the false claim while trying to defend opposition to junior doctors’ pay demandsSteve Barclay, the health secretary, got it wrong when he claimed in an interview this week that NHS consultants received tax-free pensions, the Depar…
Hannah Ingram-Moore reportedly paid via family firm for appearances linked to charity that bears father’s nameThe Captain Tom Foundation is under renewed scrutiny after reports its co-founder Hannah Ingram-Moore was paid thousands of pounds via a famil…
Up to 17,000 more children a day lack food, Save the Children say, as global indifference to humanitarian crisis condemned as ‘racist’The past four months of fighting in Sudan has pushed millions into food insecurity – with an additional 1.5 million ch…
Bollards and cameras are being deliberately damaged in protest at measures designed to improve air quality and road safetyLondon councils are having to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money repairing vandalised bollards and cameras …
Health secretary suggested patients could go directly to diagnostic test or clinician to ease ‘bottleneck’ in NHS systemPatients with cancer symptoms could bypass their GP in the future and go straight for a scan, the health secretary has suggested, in…
Clevedon town council chairman says he cannot reveal why insurance policies were revokedThe seafront tennis courts have been shut and walkers told to stay away from a popular park. Allotment holders have been barred from their plots and classes at a co…
Coalition urges health secretary to back changes as long-term sickness levels reach record highUK politics live – latest updatesA coalition of charities and health experts has called for an overhaul of the UK’s “broken” sick pay system, as the number o…
Exclusive: more than 430,000 people in England and Wales awaiting review of personal independence paymentsDisabled people in England and Wales are missing out on an estimated £24m a month as record numbers wait for their personal independence payments …
Thinktank warns that government’s promises of levelling up are being undermined by system that is ‘not fit for purpose’The government’s levelling up plans for England are being hampered by a funding system that is “not fit for purpose” and deprives the…
Prescriptions for new drugs soon to be available as health service unable to offer enough face-to-face services Weight-loss jabs are among a range of measures that will soon be made available by the NHS via prescription on apps in an attempt to tackle …