5 d. ago Nationwide clarifies that £50 payments 'will go into this account'

Millions of Nationwide customers are receiving the payments

Economics

7 d. ago Nationwide receives ‘advanced’ mental health accessibility rating from charity

The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, an independent charity which was founded by consumer champion Martin Lewis, has made the award.

Politics

7 d. ago People who are violent or abusive to NHS staff because they think they have a 'right' to access health care should be turned away, Wes Streeting warns

The health secretary pledged to keep staff safe at work by enforcing a 'zero tolerance' approach and making the reporting of violent incidents mandatory.

Events

8 d. ago Alabama lawmakers pass legislation that could give pregnant women more access to health care

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women

Society

1 week ago Huge number of Brits to lose access to free dental work or prescriptions within days

Universal Credit changes mean over two million people have already stopped seeing a dentist because they lost access to free care or confusing new process meant they assumed they had to start paying NHS charges

Politics

2 w. ago Best golf training and practice aids for improving your game and lowering your handicap

Fix your on-course faults without leaving the house

Sport

2 w. ago SNP accused of 'recycling ideas' in latest attempt to fix Scotland's struggling NHS

Neil Gray, the Health Secretary, said he wanted to "deliver a more accessible NHS, with reductions to long-waits".

Sport

3 w. ago Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right | Justine McCarthy

The fighter won’t be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the country’s politics by endorsing himMiddle Ireland feels grievously insulted by the US president. On St Patrick’s Day, when the globe traditionally turns green, Donald Trump’s official guest at the White House was not the taoiseach bearing a bowl of shamrock, but an unelected stooge recently found by a civil court jury liable for the rape of a woman in a Dublin hotel. Fear and loathing of the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who is facing civil trial in the US for alleged sexual assault of another woman in Florida, is one of middle Ireland’s most unifying forces.“We couldn’t think of a better guest to have with us on St Patrick’s Day,” gushed Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt on 17 March, rubbing salt in the wound. McGregor was given access to the Pentagon, met the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and the national security...

Politics

3 w. ago Terminal cancer patient 'violated' as 'hospital staff shared photos of her in surgery'

Gemma Sabatino spent two months in Addenbrooke's Hospital after falling from a bridge and was also under the care of the hospital's mental health and cancer teams when she says records were accessed

Science

3 w. ago Nationwide issues warning to customers that payments are 'reported' to HMRC

Nationwide has issued a warning to customers who receive a free £50 'thank you' payment from the building society after it acquired Virgin Money

Events

3 w. ago Best thermal phone cases to protect your phone in extreme temperatures

Protect your tech no matter the weather

Politics

4 w. ago How bottled water companies are draining our drinking water – video

As droughts become more prevalent, corporate control over our drinking water is threatening the health of water sources and the access people have to them. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how foreign multinational companies are extracting billions of litres of water from natural aquifers to sell back to the same communities from which it came – for huge profits‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking waterForeign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire | Dalia Hartuqa

Even before this brutal attack, Israel has acted with impunity – safe in the knowledge that yet again, its allies will do nothingIn less than 24 hours, heavy Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 4oo Palestinians, according to Palestinian health authorities, marking the end of a ceasefire that was announced in name only between Hamas and Israel on 15 January and took effect four days later. Even after months of negotiations led by the US, Qatar and Egypt, those observing Palestinian-Israeli affairs knew the ceasefire never really meant Israel ceased its fire on the besieged coastal territory.Between 22 January and 11 March, at least 700 Palestinians were either killed by the Israeli military or their bodies were retrieved from areas medics could not previously access, according to ministry of health in Gaza as reported by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In the past two months, Israel has also reneged on the terms of the truce,...

Events