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Melton & Syston MP Edward Argar

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Improvements hailed in how Leicestershire SEND youngsters are supported

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The numbers of people diagnosed with dementia has soared.

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The Lord Darzi Report found that the NHS is in 'serious trouble'.

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Ryan Horler stole lifesaving emergency bleed kit

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In England, 40.9% of patients saw a GP on the same-day they booked their appointment in June 2024, here are stats for each region. (Photo: Google Maps)

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GPs are voting whether or not to go on strike for the first time in 60 years. (Photo: Charles Milligan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Moxon with her five-year-old daughter Eve. Photo by Charlotte Ridgeon (Harriet's twin sister).

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A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

Changes to complaints system for Leicestershire primary care services

Changes to complaints system for Leicestershire primary care services
The way patients can make a complaint about services given by doctors, dentists, opticians and pharmacists in the Melton borough has changed.
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More than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct or sexual violence were recorded in NHS England in the five years between 2017 and 2022.

Breaking 35,000+ incidents of sexual violence recorded in NHS England 2017-2022

Palforzia, an oral drug, appears to reduce the risk of harm when a peanut allergy sufferer comes into contact with the foodstuff (image: Shutterstock)

NHS England to offer new treatment to help tackle peanut allergies

The Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold (Photo: Getty Images)

Moderna booster jab increases antibodies against Omicron 37-fold

Sajid Javid is urging people to ‘play their part’ and get their Covid-19 booster jab (Photo: Getty Images)

‘About 10’ people in hospital with Omicron as Sajid Javid makes booster plea

Caroline Nicolls receives an injection of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine administered by nurse Amy Nash, at the Madejski Stadium, Reading (Getty Images)

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Sajid Javid has called on the public to get their booster dose before Christmas (Photo: Getty Images)

‘Top-up’ immunity and get booster jab before Christmas parties, Brits urged

The NHS booking service for booster jabs should be updated by 13 December (Photo: Getty Images)

Bookings for booster jabs to open for all ‘no later than December 13’

The JCVI has not yet advised on whether second jabs will be made available to healthy teenagers (image: Shutterstock)

Children younger than 12 could be given Covid jabs next year

'Record breaking' number of Covid-19 booster jabs given in a week by NHS England...

E-cigarettes could be given to smokers for free on the NHS as part of new plans to help people quit (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images))

Smokers could be given e-cigarettes for free on the NHS

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Booster jab invites will be sent out to more than a million people in England from next week (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster jab invites to be sent out to more than a million people in Englan...

Sodium chloride is measured to be added to a phial of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine concentrate ready for administration at Guy’s Hospital in central London

The new anti-cholesterol drug being offered on the NHS to prevent heart attacks ...

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

Life-saving blood test for pregnant women to be available across NHS in England ...

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world first’ (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Hepatitis C cure will now be available to under-12s on NHS in ‘world-first’

The Health Secretary urged all those eligible to take up the jab (Photo: LEWIS WHYLD/AFP via Getty Images)

UK to offer 35m people free jabs in biggest ever roll out - how to book yours Rhona Shennan

According to new guidance, patients should be encouraged to go online when they phone the surgery (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors told to 'discourage face-to-face appointments' and screen patients onlin...

The Covid alert level in the UK has been downgraded to 'level 3' (Photo: Getty Images)

What Covid alert ‘level 3’ means as UK is downgraded ahead of next lockdown phas...

Around half a million 44-year-olds will receive a text inviting them to get their jab through the national booking service, NHS England said (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

44-year-olds are being offered Covid jabs - why the rollout has been extended by...

Tens of thousands of domestic abuse victims at high risk identified by NHS bodie...

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Moderna vaccine to be available in the UK from April - what you need to know abo...

Bosses have warned that paying for Covid costs out of regular budgets could cripple the health service (Photo: Shutterstock)

NHS England says it may have to start cutting care without additional funding

More than 18 million people have now been given a first dose in England (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid vaccine rolling out to 56 to 59 age group in England - how to book your ap...

More than 20 million people in the UK have now received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine (Photo: Getty Images)

This is how the UK's Covid vaccine rollout is going - the data so far by nation ...

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren’t warned of Covid infection risk (Photo: Shutterstock)

Test and Trace hospitality check-in data was ‘barely’ used - and thousands weren...

The proposed pay rise has been described as "pitiful" (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Proposed 1% pay rise for NHS England branded ‘pitiful’ by nurses union and Labou...

The alert level has been lowered based on new data (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK's Covid alert level has been lowered from 5 to 4 - here's what that means

People with HIV can now get a Covid vaccine without worrying about stigma - here’s how (Photo: Shutterstock)

People with HIV can now get a Covid vaccine without worrying about stigma - here...

Nightclubs, gigs, cinemas and theatres are expected to have to wait until September before they can reopen (Photo: Getty Images)

Nightclubs and theatres expected to stay closed until 90% of UK have had Covid j...

The next five priority groups should be invited for their first vaccine dose by the end of April (Photo: Getty Images)

This is who will get Covid vaccine next as rollout moves into new phase

The leaked plans suggests an overhaul for NHS England (Photo: Phil Noble - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

A leaked document suggests an overhaul for NHS England - here’s what it says

NHS England patients are being told to pay thousands for private dental treatment or wait up to two years (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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The UK is on track to reach the government target of 15 million first-dose vaccinations by mid-February (Photo: Getty Images)

All UK adults might get both Covid vaccine doses by end of summer - according to...

Some areas of England have administered large numbers of full Covid vaccines (two doses), while others have only given one jab (Photo: Lewis Whyld- WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Some areas of England have given thousands more second Covid jabs than others - ...

82-year-old Brian Pinker was the first person in the world to receive the new Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital EMN-210122-175922001

Residents awaiting Covid jab reassured ‘no-one will be forgotten’

The Melton Vaccination Centre at Melton Sports Village, off Burton Road EMN-210501-183431001

Covid vaccination rates revealed for Leicestershire and Rutland

Icreasing the rollout to 600,000 jabs per day could allow restrictions to lift sooner (Photo: Getty Images)

Daily Covid vaccination rate must double to lift lockdown by May - is it feasibl...

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All England care home residents and staff will get Covid jab within next 10 days...

Asda to offer first in-store supermarket Covid vaccinations - here’s how it will...

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