Elderly residents were not consulted properly when Fylde Borough Council decided to sell the company which owned their homes, an investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has found. The
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Cancer treatment on the NHS is to get a £6 million boost under new measures announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The investment will be used to fund clinical trials
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken urgent legal action to stop a care home owner from being able to run a Nottinghamshire residential home, to protect the health and
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More than 2,800 sex crimes alleged to have taken place in British schools have been reported to police in the past three years. Of the cases reported between 2011 and
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It is a “scandal” that patients with mental health problems have no standardised maximum waiting times for treatment, experts have said. While people with most physical problems can expect to
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Human rights campaigner and early member of Amnesty International Helen Bamber has died, the Helen Bamber Foundation has announced. Leading figures from the charity world and film stars Colin Firth
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Illness caused by malnutrition is getting worse because some people cannot afford good quality food, a health expert has warned. Figures released earlier this month by the Health and Social
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The number of children in council care in England has risen by 12%, with overall costs calculated at £3.4 billion. There were 68,110 children in care on March 31 2013,
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The Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA) accused care minister Norman Lamb MP of besmirching the reputation of care homes across the country with ill-chosen, over-generalised comments likely to create a
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Birmingham City Council has announced that it has appointed Bernadette McNally as Executive Director of Children’s Services. Ms McNally is currently executive director of social services at the Belfast Health
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