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Anger grows at care homes still restricting visits three years on from lockdown, causing ‘extreme distress’Families locked out of seeing loved ones in care homes during Covid have stepped up calls for a new law to prevent it happening again, amid repor…
Party calls for urgent extra funding as it finds there are hundreds of old X-ray machines, CT scanners and radiotherapy machines in useFour in 10 NHS hospitals in England are using outdated medical equipment including 37-year-old X-ray machines, accord…
World Happiness Report finds higher levels of benevolence in all global regions than before the pandemicIt claimed 6.7 million lives, locked down entire countries and triggered a global economic slump, but Covid-19 has not affected humankind’s happines…
New figures reveal only 100 hospital doctors left NHS in 2022 due to voluntary early retirement, despite claims by Jeremy HuntThe number of hospital doctors that could be helped by Jeremy Hunt’s pensions giveaway has been cast into doubt, after new fig…
Jeremy Hunt has been told his budget giveaway will have a ‘catastrophic’ effect without more fundingA key plan to expand free childcare will “absolutely guarantee” the closure of more nurseries, the departure of staff and a fall in places if there is n…
Leading respiratory doctor fears generation could end up with long-term addictions and lung damage‘Beside himself with craving’: the teenagers hooked on vapingOne of the UK’s leading respiratory doctors has raised the alarm about the exploding populari…
Concerns grow after 67 cases of botulism poisoning in past three weeks linked to clinics in Istanbul and İzmirDesperate patients are seeking risky weight-loss treatments in Turkey because of unacceptable NHS waiting times, a surgeon has said.Ahmed Ahme…
Labour says chancellor had time to draw up more targeted changes rather than including wealthiest saversJeremy Hunt previously backed Labour’s idea of giving a pensions tax break only to NHS staff, despite ruling out such a move in this week’s budget b…
Negotiations with teachers begin and junior doctors also agree to formal talks following action this weekRishi Sunak is preparing to make fresh concessions to end months of debilitating public sector strikes, as negotiations with teachers began and jun…
Lingerie and sex toy chain’s boss tapped into the female market by embracing Britain’s peculiar erotic humourAnn Summers supremo Jacqueline Gold dies aged 62When Jacqueline Gold arrived to shake up Ann Summers, the company had already been in the famil…