‘They’re lifesavers’: the Birmingham clinic giving hope to traumatised asylum seekers
The centre, which opened its doors in July last year to address the "unmet mental healthcare needs of those seeking sanctuary", is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. It provides…
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Running costs of vaccine damage scheme more than double amount paid to victims
The amount spent on administration costs and medical assessments is more than double the £32m paid out in financial support to victims so far. The Taxpayers' Alliance think tank said the public would be "stunned" at the…
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Mail on Sunday ends up funding state school scholarship via payout to MP
The Derby North MP says she will use the proceeds of about £5,000 from the newspaper to fund scholarships for local law students at the University of Derby who – like her – attended state schools. In early July the MoS…
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Living with tinnitus can be distressing. So what can you do about it?
It might come and go with periods of stress, or it might be the permanent, irritating background track to daily life and nightly sleep. Whatever form it takes, tinnitus – hearing sounds like ringing, buzzing or hissing…
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From ‘Ozempic breath’ to hair loss: sorting the science from the hype about weight loss jabs
It doesn't completely suppress hunger, but it is powerful," says Dr Federica Amati, nutrition lead at Imperial College School of Medicine and author of The Appetite Reset. "The medicine is about 1,000 times stronger than…
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How Ron DeSantis politicized Florida’s higher education by placing his loyalists at the top
But while DeSantis himself will be gone, numerous hand-picked loyalists will remain in positions of power to protect his ideological makeover of universities and colleges. The latest, Alex Kelly, the governor's former…
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Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds
The research found that at least 760,000 schoolchildren in England and Wales missed lessons owing to closures during the heatwave – one of five in the UK this summer – as temperatures inside some classrooms topped 40C…
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Businesses urged to prepare for landmark Martyn’s Law legislation with new Cambria qualifications
The college’s Northop Business School is offering NEBOSH National Certificates designed to support those affected by the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 – widely known as Martyn’s Law. Named in memory of…
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Smaller Systems Make Organisational Behaviour Impossible to Hide
In larger organisations, culture can sometimes become strangely abstract. Entire departments exist to communicate values, mission statements and carefully polished leadership messaging while the operational reality…
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Can They Actually do the Job? Why Knowledge was Only Ever Part of the Story
For providers, it is also the reform that changes daily practice most, because it hands the sector a bigger role in deciding the question everything else depends on. Can this apprentice actually do the job? From Cliff…
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