Nursing staff will start voting today on the Government’s 3.6% pay deal amid warnings of another industrial dispute involving strikes. Around 345,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will ...

A Stormont minister has urged the UK Government to allow the terminally ill early access to their state pension. Communities Minister Gordon Lyons said it is imperative that Government does more to ...

Governments, business leaders, scientists and campaigners are gathering for the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice on Monday.

Next year’s Brit Awards will be the first of three years under the stewardship of Sony Music UK, which spearheaded the move to Manchester. Jason Iley, chairman and chief executive of Sony Music UK & ...

The draft third Northern Ireland climate change adaptation programme (NICCAP3) includes more than 250 actions suggested by government departments, councils, academia, NGOs, businesses and the public.

TV doctor Hilary Jones has described assisted dying for the terminally ill as “kind and compassionate”, adding that he would help a patient to end their life if the law was changed.

Low blood stocks prompted officials to issue an “amber alert” over supply for hospitals last year and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that more must be done to avoid a “red alert”, which means ...

Scientists suggest the toxins could one day be used as ‘markers’ for medics to pinpoint the Parkinson’s patients at a higher risk of dementia.

Independent analysis by think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research looked at Treasury figures between 2009/10 and 2022/23.

Bowel cancer cells can “shapeshift” to resemble skin or muscle cells to enable them to spread aggressively, according to scientists who have hailed it as a major breakthrough they hope can help treat ...

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