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Starmer outlines plan to shift NHS care from hospitals to new health centres | NHS

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The NHS will shift a huge amount of care from hospitals into new community health centres to bring treatment closer to people’s homes and cut waiting times, Keir Starmer will pledge on Thursday. The prime minister will outline radical plans to give patients in England much easier access to GPs, scans and mental health support […]

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Canada set up a M vaccine injury program. Those harmed say it’s failing them. – National

Canada set up a $50M vaccine injury program. Those harmed say it’s failing them. – National

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Kimberly MacDougall lay in a hospital bed beside her injured husband, Stephen, as his final moments came. She and their two kids held him as he took his last breath. Stephen, 45, a service manager for a luxury automobile dealership, had been fighting to live for weeks in May 2021, but stopped struggling. She informed

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Alcohol should have labels warning drinkers of cancer risks, charities say | Alcohol

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Cans and bottles of beer, wine and spirits should explicitly warn drinkers that alcohol causes cancer, an unprecedented alliance of doctors, charities and public experts have said. Warning labels would tackle “shockingly low” public awareness in the UK that alcohol is proven to cause seven forms of cancer and 17,000 cases a year of the

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I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write about assisted dying | Polly Toynbee

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MPs, read this horror before you vote today. Here’s how some people are slowly dying, right now, in mortal agony untreatable by the best palliative care: “Some will retch at the stench of their own body rotting. Some will vomit their own faeces. Some will suffocate, slowly, inexorably, over several days.” An average of 17

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