Workers on “zero hours” contracts could be given the right to request fixed term working, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said. Mr Cable said that ministers were actively looking at
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Care UK workers, currently taking industrial action against pay and conditions were joined on the picket line by UNISON’s General Secretary, Dave Prentis yesterday. The employees have already taken 22
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Local authorities are using funds from the NHS to keep existing social care services afloat, it has been claimed. MHP Health, a healthcare consultancy, analysed how councils spent £1.5bn worth
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Ed Miliband pledged to “call time on clock-watch care” by taking action to end the practice of visits lasting just 15 minutes or less. He said Labour would work with
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Hospitals are “falling short” on providing proper care to dying people in their final days and hours, a new review has found. There are “significant” variations in care provided by
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Statistics released by Cafcass show the number of care applications received per 10,000 child population – the rate of care applications – by each local authority (LA) in England with
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The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have agreed new processes to transfer enquiries, saying that this will make it easier for the public to complain
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Elderly victims of domestic violence may experience more frequent or increased intensity of abuse, according to overhauled guidance for criminal prosecutors. New draft guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS),
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A Labour government would put an extra £100 million into GP surgeries in England to pay for an additional three million appointments a year and guarantee NHS patients can see
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More than three million deaths worldwide in 2012 were due to harmful use of alcohol – and Europe is the region with the highest consumption of alcohol per capita, according
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