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Rural birth care 'crisis' looms amid staff shortages

Women are travelling long distances to give birth, kids are waiting years to see specialists, and mental health services are struggling, a committee has found.

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Minister: Publishing assisted dying Bill impact assessment soon ‘a challenge’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will come back to Parliament for its report stage on April 25.

Evening Standard

London maternity unit to shut in response to steep fall in birth rate

Royal Free hospital makes move as number of women having babies in borough declines by almost 30%

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Assisted dying law would be implemented in ‘safe and practicable’ way, says PM

A committee of MPs has finished scrutinising the Bill, which will return to the Commons next month.

Evening Standard

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy

Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name

The Guardian - UK

Terminally ill criticise longer four-year timeframe for assisted dying service

The new implementation period is double what was originally proposed when the Bill was published last year.

Evening Standard

Care home workers to meet with ministers after feeling ‘abandoned’ during Covid

It follows a recent poll where GMB members working in private care homes said things had either stayed the same or worsened since covid.

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Assisted dying Bill safer, says MP but ‘chaotic’ scrutiny process criticised

Changes to the Bill include a provision for assisted dying to be provided on the NHS and expert panels replacing High Court judge approval.

Evening Standard

Maternity unit at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead to close due to declining birth rate

Number of births in the area hospital covers has fallen by 14 per cent in the past five years

Evening Standard

NHS will become national health and assisted suicide service, says MP

Danny Kruger said the NHS would, if the Bill being considered passes into law, become the ‘national health and assisted suicide service’.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law thrown into doubt as rollout likely delayed until at least 2029

Timeline for implementation in England and Wales likely to be pushed back a further two years, meaning it may coincide with general election

The Guardian - UK

Isle of Man first parliament in British Isles to pass assisted dying legislation

The upper chamber of the island’s parliament has sent the Bill for royal assent and an assisted dying service could potentially be in place by 2027.

Evening Standard

Suspended children’s surgeon: Review to look at care of almost 800 patients

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the surgeon is co-operating with the review and it is not naming them for legal reasons.

Evening Standard

What the federal budget means for your generation – gen Z, millennial, gen X or boomer

Tax cuts, more funding for Medicare bulk billing, the PBS and education are all welcome – but a lack of ambition on housing is a sore point

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Nurses, midwives accept pay deal after nine-month fight

A three-year pay deal has been approved by nurses and midwives at a network of private hospitals following a long battle for better wages and conditions.

The Independent UK

Mapped: The stark north-south divide in UK life expectancy – and where men and women are dying younger

New analysis from the Centre for Ageing Better shows clear north-south divide in life expectancy across England

The Guardian - UK

‘Hospices are in retreat’: funding crisis squeezing UK palliative care providers

St Catherine’s hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care

International Business Times UK

Christian Nurse Sues NHS After Punishment for Calling Transgender Paedophile 'Mister'

A Christian nurse, Jennifer Melle, is suing the NHS after facing disciplinary action for refusing to refer to a male child sex offender as 'she.'

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‘Nobody found him in time’: how neglect and stress led to the deaths of a full-time carer and his son

David Lodge died after being found next to his father and full-time carer Peter’s body. His sister Keri believes the strain of caring and lack of government support contributed to their deaths

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Half of UK adults under 44 miss 'Covid lockdown lifestyle', poll finds

ALMOST half of Gen Z Brits miss their lockdown lifestyle five years on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study has found ...

International Business Times

Once-frenetic Pope Francis Forced To Go Slow On Return Home

His life is one of speeches, masses and visits from heads of state. His doctors have advised against him meeting groups of people, to limit the risk of infection, so mingling with crowds of faithful and kissing babies is out, as may be visits from heads of state and government.

The Guardian - UK

In a town far from Whitehall, I saw how devastating Labour’s cuts will be. When will ministers wake up?

A day with a care worker in Bury showed me the intolerable pressures of her life – and then I heard the news of a new squeeze on benefits, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Evening Standard

OPINION - Finland the happiest country in the world? I don't believe a word of it — and this is why

The World Happiness Index is out now – you did realise that yesterday was World Happiness Day? – and as ever it turns out that the Nordic countries are ahead of the herd. Finland is top, followed by Denmark, then Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands and Norway, with Costa Rica somehow smuggling…

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Mum has died and my dog has cancer. I skipped World Happiness Day

Trump may have dumped Farage, and Musk has lost $100bn off Tesla’s share price but can’t I even enjoy the schadenfreude

The Guardian - UK

Ministers urged to act as thousands more hit by UK carer’s allowance debts

Latest overpayment figures bring total number falling foul of ‘cliff-edge’ rules on earnings to 144,000

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