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UK's plans for a paper-free health service at the point of care

UK local digital roadmaps: CCGs to submit plans for local health services to become paper-free at the point of care by 2020.

UK has published detailed guidance to support clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to prepare plans – called local digital roadmaps - on how their local health and care areas will achieve the ambition of being paper-free at the point of care by 2020.

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Student returns to Somalia with dream of becoming a doctor

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Rahma and her eight-year-old sister Kadra before embarking on their return journey in August, 2015.

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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on the child migrant and refugee crisis in Europe

“Heart-breaking images of children’s bodies washing up on the shores of Europe … lying suffocated in the backs of trucks crossing borders … being passed over barbed wire fences by desperate parents.

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Baghdad had highest level of civilian casualties in August – UN Iraq mission reports

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Two small children who fled the escalating violence in Iraq (file photo).

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Backing UN ‘Agenda 2030,’ parliamentary leaders pledge to place democracy at service of sustainable development

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President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Saber Chowdhury (right) with women speakers of parliament, who attended the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament at UN Headquarters.

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Ukraine - aid delivered to area not controlled by govt for first time in weeks

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Last weekend a convoy of 13 trucks successfully passed the cross line in Eastern Ukraine and arrived at Gorlovka.

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Director-General Irina Bokova expresses consternation at the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra

The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed profound dismay as she condemned the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, one of the most important 1st century CE religious monuments in the Middle East, a construction unique in its design.

“The destruction of Palmyra constitutes an intolerable crime against civilization but 4,500 years of history will never be erased,” the Director-General declared.

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Number of women and children passing through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to seek refuge in Europe triples in three months

The number of women and children fleeing violence in their countries of origin and passing through the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia seeking refuge in Europe has tripled in the past three months, UNICEF said on September 1.

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Yemen: UN warns of ‘untenable’ humanitarian situation and steep increase in civilian causalities

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This building in Yemen was destroyed by airstrikes.

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Togolese refugee finds a new beginning in Liberia

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Togolese refugee Paul Gbedji -- a civil engineer – has built a new life in Liberia after losing entire family in post-election violence