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• ‘Buckling’ NHS fails to treat 250,000 children with mental health problems

  16-04-2023 21:21
  
  Exclusive: child mental health crisis deepens with one-third of all referrals denied help A quarter of a million children in the UK with mental health problems have been denied help by the NHS as it struggles to manage surging case loads against a backdrop of a crisis in child mental health.Some NHS trusts are failing to offer treatment to 60% of those referred by GPs, the research based on freedom of information request responses has found.In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or em
  
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• ‘The tragic cost of under-investment’: asbestos blamed for 150 deaths of school and hospital workers in England

  16-04-2023 10:00
  
  Unsafe buildings could still be putting staff at risk of cancer through contact with the material, warn unions, experts and MPsFresh concerns have been raised about the amount of asbestos remaining in dilapidated schools and hospitals, after new analysis found that almost 150 health and education workers were recorded as dying from cancer related to the material in recent years.According to official data, there have been 147 deaths among health and education workers since 2017. Experts believe t
  
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