Health officials have pulled out of publishing recommendations on safe staffing after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt gave the responsibility to the newly-formed NHS Improvement body. The National Institute of Health
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Depression and personality disorders are the most common diagnoses in psychiatric patients requesting help to die, research has found. The study, published in the online journal BMJ Open, focused on
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More than 400 probation jobs are threatened with the axe under “drastic” cuts in a number of centres across the country, according to unions. Sodexo was said to be planning
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Charities acting for prisoners have won permission from the Court of Appeal to challenge legal aid cuts they say are “inherently unfair” and threaten to cause injustice to vulnerable inmates.
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Extra taxes to pay for a social care system that mirrors the National Health Service are being outlined by Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham. The reforms would lead to “difficult
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Social services staff have been criticised by a High Court judge who has ruled that a two-year-old girl should return to the care of her father and be reunited with
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The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has called for a review into how dying, death and bereavement are dealt with across government departments and public bodies. The calls are
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Some of the very poorest pensioners are missing out on billions of benefits, according to the latest government figures analysed in Age UK’s Chief Economist’s Report. The charity’s Chief Economist’s Report
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Spy chiefs warned the Thatcher government that allegations an MP had a “penchant for small boys” risked causing it political embarrassment, documents have revealed. Child abuse investigators found no consideration
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The Labour leadership battle has become increasingly bitter after a campaigning MP claimed Jeremy Corbyn was unfit to win the contest because he failed to investigate historical allegations of child
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