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Nottingham NHS Trust prioritising diversity-hired midwives

18 internationally trained midwives have joined Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to increase staffing levels, skills, and diversity in the Trust’s maternity services. Initially recruited through NHS England funding, the midwives were offered additional training to become UK registered and subsequently placed as student midwives across City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre. They have

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People in Scotland have a shorter life expectancy than anywhere else in Europe.

Public Health Scotland said action was needed quickly as the country’s health continues to deteriorate and the health gap between the rich and poor grows. Scotland’s health is getting worse under the stewardship of the SNP as people die younger than any other Western European country. Paul Johnston, chief executive of Public Health Scotland, called for a

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NHS business trip to Las Vegas cost over £58,000.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that a business trip to Las Vegas for Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) NHS Trust staff cost over £58,000. The Essex-based Trust sent a team, including two Board Directors, to attend a conference which was taking place in the American city. The conference, which took place in September

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Labour Plans to Outlaw all forms of “conversion” therapy

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to outlaw all forms of conversion therapy if Labour wins the election. The Labour leader said his ban would be “trans-inclusive”, meaning it would ban attempts to change someone’s gender identity as well as their sexuality through conversion therapy. The Tories have promised to ban practices that attempt to change a person’s sexuality

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Dementia sufferer, 91, dies because of carers’ language barrier.

Language is a system used by a nation, people, or other distinct community to communicate information, thoughts, and feelings. In other words, it is essential to any functional society and human existence. It shouldn’t be too challenging to imagine the problems arising when a society doesn’t share a common language. On the more trivial side

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Brutal Killer Jailed

This news story is absolutely harrowing, both in the details of the crime and the resulting fallout that we see in the aftermath. Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, a woman charged with caring for premature or ill babies, has been given a whole life sentence for murdering seven infants in her care. This woman will rightfully

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