Healthcare inspectors spent four times their annual budget on hotels, travel and meals, an investigation has found. Teams from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) spent £4.4 million on travel and
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Regions where the Government’s controversial “fit for work” assessments have been carried out have seen hundreds of extra suicides and thousands more prescriptions being issued for anti-depressants, research has found.
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Vulnerable children across the country are likely to have lost out as a result of the Government’s decision to treat failed charity Kids Company as a “special case”, a parliamentary
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More than 46,000 elderly people have had their “meals on wheels” service axed in the past three years, according to the Malnutrition Task Force. Analysis of official data for England
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Child abuse victims will begin giving testimonies for the first time next week about their ordeal as part of the huge independent inquiry into alleged sexual abuse in Westminster and
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Accident and emergency units are facing a “perfect storm” that will heap on the pressure in the build-up to the busy winter period, according to one of the UK’s most
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Efforts to put more police on the beat and cut form-filling means vulnerable crime victims and witnesses are being let down when they get to court, a new report has
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Unpaid carers are saving the taxpayer £132 billion a year thanks partly to a “dramatic rise” in the hours they work, a new report claims. A rise in the cost
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The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has published its complaints statistics for adult social care – including data for both councils and private care providers – in its Annual Review of
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Mental health services are under “huge pressure”, a leading think tank has said, as it called for an end to cuts which it said could be responsible for a decline
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