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After securing £10 million from the government, the BMA has welcomed progress on improving rest facilities for junior doctors.
New guidance for councils and care providers will ensure that adults receiving social care will be better protected against coronavirus.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to speak to engineering firms about whether they can shift production lines to building NHS ventilators.
DHSC has announced that local authorities will receive £16 million in 2020 to 2021 to deliver the preventative HIV treatment PrEP.
The government has committed an extra £12 million to the National Institute for Health Research in 2020/21 for research into preventable diseases.
NHS staff are being exposed to coronavirus patients but have not yet been provided with advice, training, protective clothing or hand sanitisers.
Vaughan Gething has approved the national roll-out of video health consultations, as part of teh coronavirus response.
The World Health Organization has labelled the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30 billion package to help the economy get through the recent and ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly's STP has outlined a 2030 net-zero target, in what is believed to be a UK first.
DHSC has confirmed that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has now reached 456, the biggest rise in a single day.
Routine monitoring of long-term conditions could stop, in order for GPs to focus on the sickest patients as the coronavirus outbreak worsens.
The NHS and PHE are undertaking a significant expansion of coronavirus testing, with enhanced labs helping carry out 10,000 tests daily.
Ministers have failed to provide any details about how it will use retired doctors to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
New research suggests that dental teams could play an integral role in identifying people at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an inquiry into social care funding to counteract the impact of a shortage of care on the NHS.
Ending the freeze in fuel duty would raise much needed revenue and demonstrate that the UK is serious about tackling climate change.
The NHS has unveiled a package of measures to help the public get easy access to accurate NHS information on coronavirus and avoid misinformation.
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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
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Northwich’s Victoria Infirmary (VIN) Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has enabled more patients
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It’s easy to assume that the comms team is there to handle press enquiries and the occasional social media storm – but the reality is that strategic communications can make a measurable impact across the entire organisation, from operational to financial, when done properly