The Latest Breaking News from Steve Barclay

Fears of not enough GPs to meet demand for over-50s Covid booster roll-out

The National Care Association head has called on Steve Barclay for more financial support

Evening Standard · Aug 20, 2022

Archie Battersbee's mum says online game that put son in coma has killed 82 kids

Archie Battersbee's mum Hollie Dance thinks there have been at least 82 deaths linked to the 'blackout challenge'. She accused social media companies of not doing enough to stop harmful content online

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

Archie Battersbee's mum asks for meeting with Health Secretary over 'change of the law'

"There should be a comprehensive public inquiry into the operation of this system," Hollie Dance has said

Wales Online · Aug 19, 2022

Overseas hiring spree to save care homes amid 165,000 vacancies

There have been calls for ‘urgent action’ over the 165,000 job vacancies in social care

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2022

Urgent plan to hire thousands of nurses from India and Philippines

The Government is also going to make it easier to recruit people from abroad to work in the NHS and care sector

Wales Online · Aug 19, 2022

Care home staff shortages could see more foreign workers recruited in new plans

The government is looking at international recruitment as a way to tackle a shortage of staff at UK care homes this winter and there are reports that NHS managers could go abroad to hire thousands

Daily Mirror · Aug 19, 2022

Government considers overseas hiring spree for care homes

There have been calls for ‘urgent action’ over the 165,000 job vacancies in social care.

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2022

Infected blood scandal victims to receive £100,000 ‘interim compensation payments’ after decades-long campaign

But campaigners say families who have lost loved ones are being ‘ignored’

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2022

Who can get Covid booster as new Omicron jab that targets Omicron to be used

The new jab is bivalent, meaning it protects against the original Covid strain as well as the Omicron variant

Daily Record · Aug 16, 2022

Full details of next Covid booster rollout -and Omicron jab will be used

The Government has confirmed who will get another Covid injection and says new vaccine will be used

Wales Online · Aug 16, 2022