Tom Clarke
Raw data lays bare supermarket chicken problem
As research finds unacceptable levels of a bug that causes food poisoning in supermarket chickens, safety experts advise customers to cook birds thoroughly to avoid problems.
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Is Labour NHS ‘election fox’ dead and buried?
Chris Leslie MP says the George Osborne’s £2bn NHS pledge for extra NHS funding is “smoke and mirrors.” “We need to raise real revenue over a consistent period of time.”
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Can the Tories’ extra £2bn really save the NHS?
Chancellor George Osborne says he will put an extra £2bn into front-line health services across the UK. In contrast, Labour say they will give the health service £2.5bn more with its mansion tax.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS staff: struggling to make ends meet
NHS staff take to the picket lines for the second time in two months, with more unions joining in. The government says the recommended 1 per cent rise will mean job losses.
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‘I felt I had to act’ – NHS volunteers leave to fight Ebola
The first group of GPs, nurses and other medical staff leave the UK today to fly to Sierra Leone to help treat people with Ebola. More than 1,000 volunteers from the NHS have stepped forwards so far.
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How good is your local NHS hospital? Here’s how to find out
Want to know more about the treatment you could get at your local NHS hospital, GP surgery or care home? Now you can go online and check it out.
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS asks Nice to delay ground-breaking hepatitis C drug
It’s a drug that cures hepatitis C in 90 per cent of cases – but a 12-week course costs £35,000. And now NHS England is worried that it’s too expensive.
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New hope for extremely premature babies?
Since Ewan Mackay was born at 25 weeks, survival rates for extremely premature babies in the UK have risen, but there has been little change in the proportion growing up with severe disabilities.
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Fears of winter crisis at Colchester hospital
A major incident has been declared at Colchester hospital as patients are asked to only visit accident and emergency if they have a “serious or life-threatening condition”.
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Victoria Macdonald
‘Serious problems’ in children’s mental health services
A new Health Select Committee report is damning about children’s mental health services – and it comes after repeated warnings from professionals.
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One teen’s experience of ‘isolating’ mental health provision
As a new report points out serious failings in children’s mental health services, one teenager tells Channel 4 News about being sent to A&E by his headteacher and told to stop “blackmailing” teachers.
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My autistic son was assaulted by a murderer while in care
Sarah Oakley’s 15-year old son Jack was sent by their council to a secure unit 250 miles from home. She says she had no idea of the risks posed by other residents. Here is her story.
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Victoria Macdonald
Why we are on the verge of diabetes & tuberculosis epidemic
Figures show that diabetes triples the risk of a person developing TB, and experts fear that with diabetes rates soaring, recent progress in tackling TB could go into reverse.
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Victoria Macdonald
Can a new plan ease fears over the struggling NHS?
A new report by Chief Executive Simon Stevens lays out a way forward for the NHS – but will it assuage concern over the private sector’s role in the health service?
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Victoria Macdonald
US warns against womb surgery tool – why is it still in use here?
Doctors have said that a power tool called a morcellator, used to remove fibroids in the womb, may actually be putting women’s lives at risk by increasing the risk of a rare cancer.
