Commenting on the news that Hampshire County Council has more than 300 fewer nurses than needed, Test Valley MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Minister and member of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Sandra Gidley, said:

An elderly man admitted to hospital screaming in pain with bedsores and gangrene died of heart failure brought on by neglect in a Norbury care home, an inquest found today.

Ofsted today faces calls for a radical overhaul to restore public confidence amid fresh accusations that it is so concerned with protecting its own reputation that it is failing to properly protect children.

The Audit Commission wants councils and the NHS to move away from concentrating on the mechanics of joint financing and the processes of partnership and instead look at how their joint funding can improve people’s lives.

A RAGING dad who threatened to kill two social workers walked free from court with an anger programme to calm him down.

Ofsted has been hit by a massive broadside fom teaching and social services leaders as ‘flawed, wasteful and failing’.

DOZENS of vulnerable adults face having their lives turned upside down as part of a cost-cutting exercise by Wirral Council, a care provider has claimed.

Council chiefs in St Helens have won a landmark ruling over who should foot what is billed as the most expensive care package in the UK.

A social worker who failed to seek immediate medical help for her own baby daughter and lied about how the injuries were caused has been struck off.

The Conservatives were today accused of “scaremongering” after claiming that more than 2 million elderly people could lose out under the government’s plan to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners.