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The £9.3 million mental health program will launch for every school and college in England. It will help students struggling with mental health to get more care and support in schools plus colleges. Every school, college and any other provision will be offered training through a series of workshops as part of the Link Programme. …
People who have an Amazon Alexa device will now be able to get expert health advice as they have partnered with the NHS. Starting this week the Alexa devices will automatically search the NHS website when UK users ask for health advice. The government hope this will reduce the use of the NHS for non…
A charity has warned that children’s hospice in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding. One of the hospices, Acorns, has said it will have no choice but to close later this year unless it can raise more than £1.5 million. If it closes this means more…
According to thinktank older people should receive free help to eat, wash and get dressed in a moved which would improve their health but need to be funded by a 2p tax rise. The proposal identifies the growing political consensus that personal care should become free for over 65s. If this is brought into action,…
Family doctors are calling for GP consultations to be extended from 10 to 15 minutes so they have more time to discuss their health. The average length of GP consultations in the UK is 9.2 minutes, this is one of the lowest across economically advanced nations. According to a report, the 10 minute appointment that…
It has been one years since the first gender pay gap figures were published, women working in the public sector in England are paid even less than their male colleagues. All organisation with more than 250 employees have to publish their gender pay gap data. This year the deadline for the public sector was March…
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