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Tories pledge new GP surgeries in community care boost

The Conservatives have promised to build 100 new GP surgeries in England and boost the number of available appointments by allowing more treatments in the community if they win the election. The party says it would also expand the number of treatments pharmacies can offer without people seeing their GP first. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak […]

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Julian Nagelsmann slams poll about Germany national team’s racial makeup

After a German public broadcaster’s poll included a question related to the skin color of players on the country’s men’s national soccer team, its coach slammed the undertaking as “racist” and “insane.” According to ARD, Germany’s largest public broadcasting network, 21 percent of Germans said they would prefer to see more White players on the […]

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Half a million waiting on delayed payment

About half a million people have been left without their Child Benefit payment, after a technical issue at HMRC. HMRC says it is working to resolve the batch processing issue, which meant that around 30% of Monday’s scheduled payments did not go through. Many parents took to social media to complain about the missing payment […]

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Donald Trump joins app despite past criticism

Donald Trump has joined TikTok, despite attempting to ban it on national security grounds during his presidency. In 2020 he signed a presidential executive order attempting to ban the platform for its links to China, which was ultimately blocked by US courts. He has since criticised recent attempts to curtail it, saying this would empower […]

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NHS corridor care is unacceptable, says nursing union

Getty Images Patients are sometimes cared for in corridors because of a lack of hospital beds Caring for patients in hospital corridors has become “normal”, despite being unsafe and unacceptable for patients, says a report from the Royal College of Nursing. At its annual conference starting on Monday, RCN boss Prof Nicola Ranger will say […]

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