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Views being sought to tackle inequality in medical devices

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Call for evidence launched to discover if and how medical devices and technologies may be exacerbating inequalities in healthcare.

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Social care staff to benefit from improved career options and training

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Hundreds of thousands of social care staff to receive help to develop careers in care.

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Secretary of State visits Warwickshire health and care services

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Patients across Warwickshire are benefiting from the use of innovative digital health technologies and the opening of a new community diagnostics centre to improve access to services and bust the COVID backlogs.

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First Women's Health Strategy for England to tackle gender health gap

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The government has published the first ever Women’s Health Strategy for England to tackle the gender health gap.

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