Tag Archive for: BBC News

Norfolk woman faces 60-week wait for a wheelchair/in /by
Alison Norman is scared she may lose her strength and independence.
Overseas staff ‘exploited and trapped’ at UK care home/in /by
Care home staff say they feel exploited and trapped by the firm that brought them to the UK to work.
Spiking crackdown to see more funding for test kits/in /by
Modernising the law and training for door staff are also among measures announced by the government.
Ellie Middleton: ‘Learning the way my brain works has changed everything for me’/in /by
Author Ellie Middleton on her late ADHD and autism diagnoses.
Michelle Mone admits she stands to benefit from £60m PPE profit/in /by
In an exclusive interview, the ex-Tory peer says she and her husband were made "scapegoats" for PPE failings.
Why Covid is still flooring some people/in /by
A lot of us know someone who has felt pretty rough with the most recent form of the virus.
Avoidable 111 calls may risk lives over Christmas, service head warns/in /by
The north-west of England service says repeat medication orders on bank holidays add unnecessary pressure.
Volunteers breathe polluted air to test impact on brain/in /by
Scientists are assessing how exposure to different kinds of air pollution impacts the brain.
IT failures causing patient deaths, says NHS safety body/in /by
One patient was wrongly identified as not to be resuscitated because of slow access to digital records.
Autism diagnosis wait times hit 300 days – NHS data/in /by
The number of people waiting for an autism diagnosis is up 50% over the past 12 months.