Probation service returns to public control seven years after Chris Grayling’s ‘deeply flawed’ reforms as watchdog warns more funding is needed Then-Justice Sec Chris Grayling introduced £3.7billion probation reform in 2014 The controversial reforms saw private companies take control of some services However, probation services have now been taken back under public control By Danyal Hussain … Read more
Nurses condemn ‘fundamentally flawed’ PPE rules in hospitals and say existing guidance on measures including masks is based on out-of-date evidence Report says UK guidance does not reflect more significant risk of aerosol spread Royal College of Nursing commissioned the report after concerns raised by staff Nursing leaders said concerns raised by community nurse who … Read more
A ‘crude’ and controversial algorithm is being used to divvy up Covid jab supplies around the UK, MailOnline can reveal. Department of Health bosses today confirmed officials deployed the Barnett formula to decide how many doses should be allocated to the devolved nations. The method — used in the Treasury since the 1980s to distribute … Read more
Leading ecologists warn moving ancient woodland to make way for HS2 is a ‘fundamentally flawed’ idea based on no strong evidence HS2 bosses say they are trying to move ancient woodland soil to a nearby field Ecologist warns it could take ‘hundreds of years’ for nature to recover from move Experts at HS2 accept there’s … Read more
Jennifer Beam Dowd wrote in an article for Slate on Friday that the study by IZA Institute of Labor Economics was not to be trusted An Oxford epidemiologist has backed up South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in her skepticism of the widely disputed Sturgis study that claimed 266,000 people were infected with COVID-19 from the single … Read more
Flawed body armour tests which could be potentially fatal for Special Forces troops and anti-terrorism units have been ‘ignored for decades’ Research showed plates that met standards could still lead to fatal injuries Could occur if police officers and elite military personnel are shot at close range It follows report into results of experiments on … Read more
Thousands of doctors and nurses may have been given inaccurate coronavirus tests. A leaked Public Health England document revealed testing centres had been told to stop using the kits because of ‘quality assurance difficulties’. The memo warned the results were less reliable than initially thought – sparking fears for the near-100,000 NHS and social care … Read more