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    The NHS is in the danger zone under the Tories and Labour would nationalising failing care homes to protect their elderly patients, Jeremy Corbyn will say. Corbyn will deny he speaks about the health service because it is a comfort zone for the party, as it wallows in the polls behind the Tories, and say he would provide a long-term funding solution to bring the NHS out of crisis. He will also pledge that a Labour government would consider taking failing care homes into public ownership, saying it was an “outrage” that a fifth of homes lacked the staff to properly look after residents. In a speech in London to the Fabian Society on Saturday, the Labour leader will say: Week after week at Prime Minister’s Questions, I’ve been challenging Theresa May over the crisis in the N...

    Theresa May has expressed frustration at the failure of more GP surgeries to offer extended opening hours amid intensifying pressure on NHS hospital services. The Prime Minister made clear her determination to press ahead with plans for surgeries in England to open 8am to 8pm seven days a week unless they can prove the demand is not there from patients. There is increasing exasperation among ministers that lack of GP appointments is driving patients to seek treatment in hard-pressed hospital accident and emergency departments. The director of acute care for NHS England Professor Keith Willett has recently estimated that 30% of the patients attending A&E would be better cared for elsewhere in the system. Meanwhile the latest official figures showed more than four in 10 ...

    It's been 12 years since Nadiya Hussain married her husband Abdal, and during an appearance on Thursday's edition on This Morning, the former Great British Bake Offwinner has revealed her plans for a second marriage. Speaking with hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about her new novel, she teased: We are on our twelfth year...so you never know, I might trade him in! The 32-year-old, who had an arrange marriage with Abdal when she was 19 years old, opened up about the early stages of their relationship: We spoke to each other for six months, but we never actually met until the day we got engaged. And the second day I saw him was the day I got married! I went on looks. She added: He was lovely and it worked. I'm lucky, because it doesn't always work, but I was real...