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A new talking therapy for depression has shown encouraging early signs of being more effective and cheaper to deliver than the current best practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Alexander Lewis-Ranwell has sued G4S Health Services (UK), Devon & Cornwall Police, Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Devon County Council.

Fresh strikes by nurses have affected half of Englands NHS trusts in what is being described as their largest walkout yet. Here is all you need to know about the latest nurse strikes.

The patient, who is also awaiting an organ transplant, claimed she had arrived at 10:30pm last night, but had yet to even be seen by medics. Please please please pay your staff fairly, she said.

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials had scheduled a 48-hour strike in England from 8pm on April 30 to 8pm on May 2 in an escalation of its ongoing pay row with ministers .

Leader of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen, shared that Great Ormond Street Hospital was granted mitigations on Friday ahead of the 48-hour bank holiday strike.

Ahead of the upcoming Bank Holiday strike, Steve Barclay took the Royal College of Nursing union into a high court showdown to call off the May 2 portion of their 48-hour strike.

The Royal College of Nursing will order members in England to walk out of A&E, critical care and cancer wards for the first time, in a major escalation of industrial action.

It means the historic walk-out - organised to coincide with fragile hospital staffing rotas around the Easter holidays - caused more carnage than any other during the ongoing pay dispute.

The union confirmed on Friday that 54 per cent of balloted members in England rejected a five per cent pay rise this year plus a one-off bonus averaging 6 per cent.