The Department of Health has today published statistics collected from Health & Social Care (HSC) Trusts, Agencies and Legacy Health and Social Services (HSS) Boards on all clinical & social
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The five-week wait for the first Universal Credit payment is often why people say they are forced to exchange sex to meet their survival needs, MPs have warned. An inquiry
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Six men have been convicted of grooming vulnerable girls in Huddersfield and treating them as “objects to be used and abused at will”. Jurors at Leeds Crown Court (pictured) were
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An anorexic teenager who wants to go home must stay in specialist accommodation, a Court of Protection judge has decided. The 17-year-old girl, who at one stage weighed 4st 6lb
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The fathers of three young children who have been missing with their mother for five days are “distraught” and want them home. Emma Davies, from Priorslee, Telford, and her three
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A “long hoped-for” deal has been reached to provide lifesaving cystic fibrosis drugs on the NHS which could help thousands of sufferers. Around 5,000 NHS patients will now have full
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A culture of “cover-up and denial” allowed decades of extensive abuse of pupils by monks and teachers at a west London Catholic school to continue, a report has said. The
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The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales has launched a new campaign to highlight and challenge the everyday ageism faced by older people. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Social Care Council) and the Ulster University will tour NI with Experience ‘IT’ – a social care tech tour promoting technology as an enabler
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A diagnostic test is being developed by scientists that would cut the time taken to show resistance to antibiotics from “up to two days” to “less than 45 minutes”. In
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