Gordon Brown faces a stark choice between deploying market forces to reform the National Health Service or retreating back to central control and performance management, a study published today concludes.

One in four NHS trusts in England admit they are failing to comply with hygiene regulations introduced last year to halt the spread of MRSA and other hospital superbugs, health inspectors have disclosed.

A scheme to support young offenders, care leavers and other young people deemed at risk of becoming homeless is to receive almost £3.8 million over seven years from a Government fund.

A Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) has decided the case of a social worker from London who was alleged to have breached the code of practice for social care workers. Misconduct was found against the registrant, Mrs Evelyn Mnene.

The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care homes, has responded to the research by the King’s College Institute of Gerontology and Comic Relief which shows that the majority of abused older people are living in the community.

The Government has announced the next steps in its programme to tackle social exclusion, supporting twelve new projects to help the most chronically excluded adults in society. Since the launch of the Social Exclusion Action Plan in September last year the government has argued that specific approaches are needed to tackle social exclusion.

The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) today published a new workbook which is designed to provide a framework for foster carers to work their way through the ‘Training, Support and Development Standards for Foster Care.’

In a newly published report the British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on doctors and all health professionals to be increasingly aware of domestic abuse as an issue that needs urgent attention.

The Department of Health is today launching a consultation paper on a new approach to dealing with complaints in health and social care which will make it easier for people to complain when things go wrong.

The House of Commons has the chance to make major improvements to the Mental Health Bill, the Mental Health Alliance has said. The 75-member coalition working for a humane and