GPs across England will start capping the number of patients they are willing to see, after the British Medical Association (BMA) announced an immediate work-to-rule action. The BMA has told its members they can limit appointments to 25 a day – some GPs see more than 40 at times - in a dispute over funding levels.

GPs to start capping appointments in work-to-rule

Kimberley Sampson and Samantha Mucahy died of infections after receiving Caesarean sections.

Relatives of women who died with herpes suing NHS

The Independent

Ministers are planning to slash red tape to enable GP surgeries in England to hire more doctors.Leading medics have campaigned for GP surgeries to be given the freedom to use a staff funding pot to employ more GPs and additional practice nurses.The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme is a £1.4 billion fund designed to boost GP practice staff including physician associates and pharmacists, but not GPs or practice nurses.Now the Government has announced that practices will be allowed to use the funding pot to recruit newly qualified GPs during 2024/25.Officials said that the move is an “emergency measure” while the Government...

GP surgeries told to hire more doctors as Government cuts funding red tape

 Newly qualified nurses have been left struggling to find entrance-level jobs, as budget cuts have forced the NHS to cut vacancies by a quarter, The Independent has learnt.NHS leaders said the financial squeeze on the sector meant employers have cut jobs across the board, including frontline staff. New nurses described being forced to take healthcare assistant roles as they compete for a handful of positions.Labour described the situation as “absurd” and pledged to address the problem.Dr Nichola Ashby, deputy chief nurse for the Royal College of Nursing, called on NHS England and healthcare employers to take urgent action to...

Thousands of newly qualified nurses can’t find jobs as NHS chiefs forced to slash roles

A fifth of the nursing and midwifery professionals who left the register in the last year did so within 10 years of joining, figures show.Nursing leaders described the statistic as “deeply alarming” and called on ministers to “grasp the nettle and make nursing an attractive career”.The latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) annual report on its register of nurses, midwives and nursing associates in the UK shows 27,168 staff left the profession between April 2023 and March 2024, a slight decrease on the previous 12 months.However, 20.3 per cent of the total - or 5,508 - did so within the...

More than 5,000 early career nursing staff quit profession in one year

Two men have been charged over an attack in Antrim town in which a teenager had part of each of his ears bitten off. The victim - a man in his late teens - was attacked at a pub in High Street on 12 May. Two men, aged 20 and...

Men charged after teenager's ears partially bitten off

Virginia State

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Cheryl E Preston

History Facts lists eight names US parents no longer give their newborns, which you may no longer hear in Virginia. The girls' names are Doris, Gertrude, Mildred, and Judith. I know or have known women with all four names, but they are either baby boomers or boomer parents' ages and someone's grandma or great aunt. Consider the ages of females in Virginia you know with these names.

Eight names parents in Virginia may no longer be giving to their newborns

New York City, NY

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Two puppies were found abandoned in a sealed cardboard box, as the cost of living takes a toll on rescue centres and pet owners. RSPCA Brent Knoll Animal Centre in Somerset took the dogs in, who were just a few weeks old, after they were found by a member of the public at a roadside in Burtle on 5 July.

Puppies found abandoned in sealed box

A quantity of what is believed to be the psychoactive substance was seized in two raids in Telford.

Four arrested in raids targeting monkey dust

The US Sun

GRAVEYARDS are full with loved ones unable to be buried unless a spot has been booked in advance, a town’s bosses warn. And experts say the cemetery crisis is mirrored in many communities across the country. Friends of a recently deceased 46-year-old man, named only as Neil, said yesterday they had learned there were no […]

Warning as graveyards are full with loved ones unable to be buried unless spot has been booked in advance

The development is set to include including 201 affordable homes and four Traveller pitches.

Plans for over 400 new homes approved after appeal

A new service to help manage acute pain has launched at a Birmingham hospital for inpatients recovering from injury or surgery. Queen Elizabeth Hospital said the set-up aimed to help those in need experience a "swifter and smoother recovery process". It added staff from the service would guide ward teams...

Hospital launches inpatient acute pain service

A dad who had to wait four months before he could return to the UK with his new baby son after he had been born abroad has said he was happy to be back on British soil. Raj Gill from Grays, Essex, said he felt "abandoned" by the UK authorities after his son was born via surrogacy on 29 January, because he had to wait until May for his baby's passport to be issued.

Man returns home after surrogate baby born

A two-year-old girl fell unconscious and had to be hospitalised after drinking a Slush Puppie. Arla Agnew "turned grey" when her blood sugars plummeted after only half a cup of the icy drink at a friend’s house on Saturday. Her mother Carys, from Stranraer, said doctors believed this was...

Toddler 'turned grey and passed out' after drinking Slush Puppie

More warning signs are being put up at a Devon beauty spot after two people were rushed to hospital after being bitten by adders. A Facebook post from Braunton Burrows Public Information said two visitors went to hospital after being bitten at the nature reserve near Saunton Sands beach on Friday.

Adder warning in Devon after two people bitten

Community wardens are maintaining an increased presence in the area to reassure those visiting the graveyard.

Work begins to repair vandalised gravestones

Data from Southampton's port health authority shows the total number affected on board the Ventura.

Cruise norovirus outbreak saw 519 cases at peak

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The junior doctors' strikes may be over. But is trouble ahead?

The end of the pay dispute sounded too good to be true. And now some are wondering if it might...

The junior doctors' strikes may be over. But is trouble ahead?

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