Patient Neglect To Be Made A Criminal Offence

Wilful neglect of patients will be made a criminal offence under NHS reforms being introduced in the wake of the Mid Staffs and other care scandals. Prime Minister David Cameron said health workers who mistreated and abused patients would face "the...

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Mum's Pain After Children 'Snatched By Dad'

By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent A mother has told Sky News that her husband abducted their children and took them to Libya because England is "too Western". In an exclusive interview, Priscilla Micalleff, 30, from Birmingham, told how Jamal...

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Elizabeth Kinston: Body Found In GP Search

A woman's body found in grassland is believed to be that of missing GP Elizabeth Kinston - in what police said was a "tragic conclusion" to their investigation. The 37-year-old mother, who had been suffering from postnatal depression, was last seen...

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Illegal Animal Item Seizures Rise By Millions

By Harriet Hadfield, Sky News Reporter The number of endangered species items seized by the UK Border Force has increased tenfold during the past year. The number of items confiscated has reached an all-time high A total of 2.5 million illegal...

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Manhunt As Murderer Escapes From Hospital

Police have appealed for help from members of the public after a man serving a life sentence for murder escaped from hospital. John Murch had been in Stamford Hill Prison, Kent, and on Saturday, August 31 he was admitted to Medway Maritime hospital...

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'Family Doctors' To Be Restored In New GP Deal

The elderly will be given named doctors in a move aimed at "restoring the ethic of family doctoring", the Health Secretary has said. Under a new GPs contract all over-75s will have a designated doctor who will be responsible for co-ordinating all of...

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Hamzah Khan: Charity's Child Protection Fears

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent A serious case review will be published today into the death of a four-year-old boy whose body lay undiscovered for almost two years after he was allowed to starve to death by his mother. Mother-of-eight Amanda...

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A&E Services: NHS Plans Two-Tier Service

By Thomas Moore, Health and Science Correspondent Specialist emergency care could be concentrated in regional hospitals under radical plans for a two-tier A&E service. NHS England is considering the new-look service as part of a major shake-up...

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Prince Charles Backs Farmers In Country Life

By David Blevins, Sky News Correspondent A month after he took on the banks, the Prince of Wales has spoken out against the big retailers and expressed his fears for the farming community who supply them. On the eve of his 65th birthday, His Royal...

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Harold Percival: WWII Veteran's Funeral Held

By Mike McCarthy, North of England Correspondent Two thousand people have turned up to mark the funeral of a World War Two veteran who died with no close relatives or friends. An internet campaign was launched after a Lancashire funeral director...

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Breastfeeding: New Mums To Get Shop Vouchers

Vouchers for Matalan, John Lewis, Mothercare or supermarkets are to be dished out to new mothers if they feed their babies with breast milk. Researchers from the University of Sheffield are examining ways to boost low rates of breastfeeding in parts...

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Cyberattack Exercise: Banks Test Defences

By Ursula Errington, Business Reporter Hundreds of staff from the UK's financial institutions will take part in a simulated cyberattack today. The exercise, the details of which have been kept top secret, will be overseen by officials from the...

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Public Pay '£56m Rip-Off' On Government Calls

More than 100 million calls by the public to Government departments were charged at premium rates - costing an estimated £56m, an influential committee of MPs has said. A Public Accounts Committee report said of 208 million calls in 2012/13, some 63%...

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Walk-In Centre Closures 'Threaten Communities'

By Tadhg Enright, Sky News Correspondent More than 50 NHS walk-in centres have closed over the past three years, according to a report by a health regulator. Monitor, the NHS watchdog for England, has blamed problems on the way the nurse-led clinics...

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Help To Buy Extension Boosts October Prices

There has been strong demand for homes under the Government's Help to Buy mortgage scheme extension, according to two major high street banks. The Halifax and Royal Bank of Scotland said they received a total of £365m in mortgage applications from 2,384...

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Funeral Appeal After WWII Veteran Dies Alone

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a funeral of a war veteran they never knew after it emerged he died with no close friends or relatives. Harold Jellicoe Percival served as RAF ground crew and helped with the famous Dambusters raids during the...

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Remembrance Day Services To Honour Veterans

War Graves 'Have Enormous Power To Engage' Updated: 1:51am UK, Sunday 10 November 2013 By Mark Stone, Asia Correspondent, in Burma Just outside the chaos and the buzz of Burma's largest city, Rangoon, is a place of remarkable peace and tranquility....

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New Mums 'Left Clueless Amid Midwife Crisis'

Nearly half of new mothers say they are not given enough advice on how to recognise if their baby has a life-threatening illness once they have left hospital, according to a survey. The survey by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and Netmums also...

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