This pandemic should be a watershed moment for health inequalities
Inequality in health is the worst kind. If we address the factors that mean some people live shorter…
Health
Labour slams government as 48,000 Covid contacts not traced
Jonathan Ashworth has slammed the government after analysis by Labour found that the error in the test and…
WATCH: Rees-Mogg says test and trace going “as well as could be expected”
Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended the government’s much-criticised test and trace programme, saying that it is going…
Social care must be “key area of focus” in Covid inquiry, says Starmer
Keir Starmer has said that the social care sector must be a “key area of focus” in the…
Labour accuses government of being “in the slow lane” on face coverings
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has accused the government of being “in the slow lane” in response to the announcement…
Health unions publish blueprint for safe opening up of NHS as lockdown eases
16 health unions have published a blueprint for the safe opening up of the NHS as lockdown measures…
Labour calls for plan to deal with non-Covid clinical need backlog
Jonathan Ashworth has called on the government to provide a plan to deal with a “growing and alarming…
Labour demands Covid-19 health inequalities strategy
Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary Jonathan Ashworth has called on the government to implement a health inequalities…
WATCH: Ashworth calls for plan to roll out Covid-19 testing and tracing
Jonathan Ashworth has called for a “plan to roll out testing and tracing” and said that the use…
WATCH: Matt Hancock admits he could not live on £94-a-week statutory sick pay
Matt Hancock has admitted that he would not be able to live on statutory sick pay, currently set…
