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

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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