Spending on mental health research needs to be doubled or tripled in the UK in order to ease the enormous burden of psychiatric and behavioural disorders on society, according to
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Home care workers must be given enough time to spend with elderly and disabled people and must have enough travelling time between appointments, a health watchdog has said. The National
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Scotland Yard has defended a controversial inquiry into claims of murder and child abuse by establishment figures. The Metropolitan Police issued a lengthy statement following a slew of reports raising
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A police force has been ordered to make immediate improvements after a watchdog found it had an “inconsistent” response to child sexual exploitation. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said
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A rising number of teenage boys were taken to hospital as the result of “very serious” violent attacks at a prison for young offenders, a new report has found. Her
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An “old” drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis may offer new hope in the fight against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, say scientists. In laboratory mice the anti-inflammatory drug,
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A sex offender who snatched a six-year-old girl off the street and bundled her into the boot of his car is facing a jail sentence. The youngster was playing near
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One of the biggest NHS trusts in the country has been placed in special measures after inspectors deemed it “inadequate”. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital,
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The NHS faces a “make or break” financial crisis within two years unless the Government orders an immediate multibillion pound cash injection, a former health minister has claimed. In a
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Following a week in Westminster where mental health has been a hot topic, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) says service users need to be placed in a central
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