Cash-strapped local authorities are cutting nursing services for elderly people, research suggests.

THE Royal Borough of Windor’s children’s social services have been criticised in an independent report.

HEALTH bosses are planning a shake-up in the way they look after children in Doncaster.

It sounds like a no-brainer. Don’t force people with long-term health problems like diabetes or chronic lung disease to trek in to hospital for routine tests and repeat prescriptions – monitor their conditions remotely instead.

PARENTS who put their children into care could face being charged, it has emerged.

People with dementia are not receiving care that meets their needs because health and adult social care services are struggling to cope, according to the Care Quality Commission’s latest Care Update.

WINCHESTER A care home boss likened to ‘Hitler’ refused to call an ambulance for a dementia patient who was choking to death, a hearing was told.

EMOTIONAL tributes to a “community champion” flowed in the St Helens Council chamber prior to the funeral of widely respected Councillor Pat Martinez–Williams.

Programmes designed to get people into work do not take into account single parents’ need for affordable childcare

Brain injury patients are at risk of ending up on the streets or entering the criminal justice system once they leave hospital because over-stretched social care departments are struggling to support them, a Senior Social Worker warned.