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A Care Quality Commission report has brought together the findings from 131 inspections Poor quality NHS maternity care will become “normalised” if action is not taken, according to the healthcare watchdog. A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report, which brings together the findings from 131 inspections, also highlighted that many failings identified in recent high-profile investigations into NHS maternity services […]

The eight year old was taken to hospital but died from his injuries An eight-year-old boy has died after falling from the window of a house in Nottingham, police said. Nottinghamshire Police said it was called at 7.15pm on Wednesday to Costock Avenue in Sherwood by East Midlands Ambulance Service. Paramedics had gone to the scene after

The ‘work-to-rule’ action could see opening hours cut, and services reduced Pharmacists are to be balloted over potential “work-to-rule” action amid a row over funding. Action could see pharmacies opening for shorter hours or potentially providing fewer services. Pharmacy leaders said the ability to provide safe care was being put at risk by a decline in funding. The

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the UK Government of sending “mixed messages” over its support for Israel and “undermining” the country’s right to self-defence. Israel’s prime minister criticised the new Labour administration for suspending around 30 arms exports to Israel amid concerns they could be used in violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza conflict.

The UK is enjoying “summer’s last hurrah” before heavy rainfall is expected to drench the country over the weekend, the Met Office has said. On Wednesday, temperatures hit 25.5C in Inverness, which is 14C above average for this time of year, according to the forecaster. Warm and bright conditions are expected to continue into Thursday

The public vastly overestimates how much asylum seekers account for in UK immigration, leading to “skewed perceptions” that make the debate on migration “unbalanced”, according to new research. A survey found that, on average, respondents thought those seeking asylum represent 37% of total immigration when actually they accounted for only around 7% in the year

Lawyers for some of the men accused of raping an unconscious French woman who had been drugged by her husband asked her on Wednesday about her habits, personality and sex life, even questioning whether she was truly unconscious during the encounters. Gisele Pelicot’s testimony came a day after her ex-husband, Dominique Pelicot, testified that for

Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case. A new indictment charged the jailed ex-movie mogul with committing a criminal sex act, accusing him of forcing oral sex on a woman at some point between April 29 2006

Russia’s ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office over an “unprecedented and unfounded public campaign of aggression against the UK”, the Government has said. A Foreign Office spokesperson accused Russia of making “malicious and completely baseless accusations” against Foreign Office staff after Moscow alleged six British diplomats had been engaged in spying and sabotage last week.

Decisions to restrict hospital visits during the pandemic in Northern Ireland were taken as “the least worst option”, the former chief nursing officer (CNO) for the region has said. Professor Charlotte McArdle also said vacancy levels in nursing immediately before the pandemic were at their highest levels in recent years. She told the UK Covid-19