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Nursing staff have handed in petitions with over 220,000 signatures at 10 Downing Street, calling for urgent action to fix the nursing workforce crisis in England.

The Royal College of GPs says whilst workload in general practice has escalated, successive governments have failed to invest sufficiently in the service.

Nearly three-quarters of voters polled say the government must protect and enhance current workplace rights like paid holidays and rights for temporary and agency workers.

Hospitals frequently have beds occupied by older people who do not have a clinical need for them, but there is nowhere else safe for them to go, says Age UK.