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Editor’s choice of Health, Social Care & Homelessness related items of note: |
Highest risk COVID-19 patients receive ‘brilliant’ new antivirals at home NICE reaches important milestone in the UK’s efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance. Government to improve drug treatment in most deprived areas Call for evidence for new 10-year plan to improve mental health NHS Confederation - Healthy dose of realism needed about what the NHS can deliver amid pressures The King's Fund responds to the latest monthly NHS hospital performance data Carrick Glen hospital bought by NHS Ayrshire & Arran NHS Confederation - Progress on waiting times - but still a long way to go Government publishes the Goldacre Review into the use of health data |
Editor’s choice of Business / Commercial items of note: |
Trade Justice Movement: Carbon Border Adjustments and climate waivers: are trade deals going green? New US Trade and Investment Envoys IEA - Britain must eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade, urges new paper LGA responds to Drug Strategy funding allocations Protective security grant funding for Jewish institutions to continue EU replacement funding £151 million less in first year Funding boost as Places and Spaces fund goes nationwide Extra funding for West Midlands community organisations Nearly £8m in funding to extend employment support services Unpaid carers in Wales are set to benefit from a £9m short breaks fund MPs to look at new fund for fishing and seafood sector Agreement with major developers to fund building safety repairs |
Editor’s choice of Policy & General items of note: |
Patients Association - Testing for COVID-19 JRF - Political inaction means inflation is leaving people in desperate situations “Everything we do helps protect us and the people around us” – First Minister Mark Drakeford A fine Easter weekend for most Paedophile bragged online about abusing sleeping child Free tuition for displaced Ukrainian students Three people charged after £16m worth of crystal meth seized in Australia IPPR: Rwanda asylum seeker offshoring plan is ‘a recipe for further human rights violations’ Brit paid for abuse of children in Philippines and Romania Childcare savings for families Hacking forum taken offline and UK suspect arrested Ayrshire man jailed after importing 250kg of cocaine bulking agent |
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