Alan Johnson, the health secretary, appeared yesterday to have averted the threat of industrial action across the NHS in England with a pay offer for 1.2 million nurses and ancillary staff worth almost 8% over three years.

A social care worker has been stabbed to death while visiting a house in Lancashire. Police were called to Fulwood, Preston, on Monday morning after reports of a knife attack.

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is launching a new body which will have responsibility for policing the country’s borders.

The UK Border Agency merges the work of 25,000 immigration, revenue and customs and visa staff.  Critics say its creation is just a re-branding exercise, since the new agency will have no new powers.

A Home Office spokesman said: “The new agency will be the eyes and ears of the police at the border.”

The UKBA’s 25,000 staff previously worked in the Border and Immigration Agency, HM Revenue and Customs and UK Visas, which all merged to form the new agency.

UKBA will work to combat smuggling, immigration crime and border tax fraud.

If you can’t stop playing computer games, be careful. Doctors say it could give you the same highly negative character traits associated with a form of autism.

VOLUNTARY and community care organisations in South Yorkshire are set to benefit from a £17million pot of Government grants.

Notts County council bosses have announced the closure of five Notts care homes. The move follows a lengthy review by Notts County Council Adult Services.

A hospital in Cheadle which helps people with learning disabilities has formed a partnership with a college in Leek, to enable staff and service users to learn together.

A nurse at a Southmead care home let a patient die because she was on her ‘last gasp’, a misconduct hearing was told.

A RESIDENTIAL home for people with learning disabilities has opened in Bradford. Park View, in Park View Road, has been transformed from a 16-bed care home into a more spacious 11-bed residential home.

More than 23,000 elderly people with Alzheimer’s could be dying prematurely in care homes each year after being given drugs to keep them quiet, a report claims today.