The new Covid corruption commissioner has started an investigation into personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud. Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of PPE bought during the pandemic…
The state of end-of-life care needs to be "fixed" before considering legalising assisted dying, a palliative care specialist has said. MPs across the country are set to vote on Friday…
A new case of a strain of mpox spreading in some parts of central and east Africa has been confirmed in Leeds. The infected person had recently returned from Uganda…
MPs' vote to back the legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales is historic. It means such a law has moved a step closer to being passed - but…
MPs have voted in favour of proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill will now face many more months of debate and scrutiny by MPs and…
More than 200 million people around the world have legal access to assisted dying, Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942. Its Dignitas facility - which accepts foreign patients as…
MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law. In the first Commons…
Here is the plain text result: Terminally ill people are a step closer to being able to choose when they die after MPs voted to support a proposed change to…
Here is the plain text result: Fixing the struggling palliative care system must be an immediate priority for the government, say senior doctors, after a proposed law on assisted dying…
Some victims of the infected blood scandal have been told interim compensation payments of £100,000 due to be made before Christmas have been put on hold. It is thought at…
