Biggest-ever round of NHS strikes gets under way

Ambulance staff and nurses walk out on Monday with further strikes to follow this week.

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HIV testing: Free do-it-at home kit offered in England

The kit is small enough to fit through a letterbox and arrives in plain packaging through the post.

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Lib Dems call for higher pay for social care staff

Sir Ed Davey says a higher minimum wage for the sector would help prevent an “exodus” to better paid jobs.

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Nurses offer to call off strikes in England if Sunak makes fresh pay offer

The head of the UK’s biggest nursing union tells the PM “meaningful offers” could avert strike action.

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FGM: ‘I’ll save another girl by talking about female genital mutilation’

A survivor and a detective say stopping the brutal ritual has become their life’s work.

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Covid: Last chance for adults under-50 to get booster

People aged 16-49 in England have until 12 February to take up the offer of a vaccine booster.

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Welsh NHS strikes: Most health unions suspend industrial action

Nurses, ambulance staff, midwives and physios are weighing up an extra 3% pay offer by ministers.

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Infected blood inquiry: Five things we have learned

An inquiry into the “worst treatment disaster in NHS history” hears its final evidence.

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Sex drive boosted by hormone kisspeptin in trials

Brain scans show it can improve sexual desire, but larger studies are needed to confirm the findings.

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Infected blood scandal: Five facts we have learned

An inquiry into the “worst treatment disaster in NHS history” prepares to hear its final evidence.

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