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The infected blood scandal can only be described as a catalogue of heartbreak.  More than 30,000 people in the United Kingdom were affected by contaminated blood products or transfusions, nearly 3,000 of whom have died. More die each year, while survivors continue a decades-long battle for truth and compensation in the face of cover-up and

The plans to force dentists to work for the NHS upon completion of their training, first reported by the Mail on Sunday, will be put out for consultation this week.Around a third of the 35,000 dentists currently registered with the General Dental Council in England do not do any work for the NHS.A Department of

You can make a delicious vitamin E-rich lunch by toasting some seedy bread and mashing ripe avocado on top. In a bowl, mix a handful of cooked prawns with 1 tbsp of Greek yogurt, a squeeze of lemon juice and some chopped spring onions. Spread the mixture on the avocado toast and top with a

“Oh god, what did I come in here for again?” I say to my 10-year-old daughter as I walk into her bedroom. I run through my never-ending to-do list in my mind – washing, homework, sorting out that pile of books for the school fair. Oh no! I forgot to reply to that work email

Earlier this week, Esther McVey, the Cabinet Secretary, announced that rainbow lanyards are to be banned in the Civil Service, warning mandarins they should not try to express political views “by the back door”.Should rainbow lanyards be banned in the NHS? “No,” Mr Streeting says. “It would be the policy of the Labour government to

Mr Streeting told The Telegraph he intended to oversee “the biggest expansion of NHS staff in history”, claiming it was “a plan so good that the Conservative Government did a smash-and-grab on it”.He said it would take time to recruit more doctors, nurses and midwives, “but in the meantime there are practical things that can

The National Trust has adopted guidelines that use “anti-white” rhetoric, Kemi Badenoch has suggested.The trust is among several British institutions now using the phrase “Global Majority”, which Ms Badenoch, who is minister for women and equalities and a member of the cabinet, warned has “political implications”.The phrase is a collective term for non-white people, who

A final report by Sir Brian Langstaff, the chairman of the infected blood inquiry, is due to be published on Monday.The total cost of compensation to the Treasury is thought to be anywhere between £10 billion and £20 billion, although no overall figure is expected to be announced this week.However, the large amounts involved have

Like lots of families up and down the country, the eternal question of “what shall we have for dinner?” is a daily head-scratcher in our house. Fed up with mulling over the usual repertoire of family meals then hastily cooking whatever we had in the fridge each evening, we started weekly meal planning.To me, this

I’d had a vague idea of what ulcerative colitis was since I was little, as my dad had suffered from it since his forties. But when I noticed blood on a trip to the toilet when I was 11, I thought it was my period. I had no idea that it was the first sign