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With waiting lists high and pay talks deadlocked, fresh round of industrial action could undermine Starmer’s health pledgesPatients left in pain and discomfort. Thousands of appointments and operations cancelled. Much of the reaction to the decision of…
Tech firm’s chief, Louis Mosley, dismisses fears that contract ‘threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems’Palantir, a US data company that works with Israel’s defence ministry, has accused British doctors of choosing “ideology over patien…
Exclusive: Charities say changes fail to account for conditions that are progressive or have varying symptoms“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by the planned universal credit cuts, contrary to government claims that they will be pr…
Court finds rentals had inflicted psychological damage on family living there and violated their right to privacy A judge in Madrid has ordered the closure of 10 tourist flats in a single building in the city centre after a landmark ruling that said “…
The Royal College of Nursing and Unison are undertaking indicative ballots to assess members’ willingness to strikeA looming fresh wave of strikes by resident doctors could encourage other NHS staff including nurses to take industrial action over pay, …
Alert to take place on 7 September, designed to warn of danger to life, but putting phone on silent will not deter alarmThe UK will hold a further test of its emergency alert system on 7 September this year – and putting your mobile phone on silent won…
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit capChildren in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has …
Chief inspector says jails in England and Wales are overwhelmed by contraband, overcrowding and lack of staffThe volume of drugs being delivered by drones into prisons is severely undermining hopes of rehabilitation among inmates, a watchdog has warned…
Revised bill passed after UK government rowed back on cuts will mean fewer rather than more people in relative poverty in 2030The changes the government made to the welfare bill in the face of a mounting rebellion over its proposals to cut disability b…
Melissa Mathieson, 18, wrote in a letter that she felt ‘dragged away from my home’ when she was placed in BristolA teenager who was murdered by a fellow care home resident wrote a letter that social services had “destroyed my life”, her inquest has hea…