Podcaster and bowel cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James dies aged 40
Podcaster and bowel cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James has died at the age of 40, her family has announced. In her final weeks, the presenter of the BBC podcast You,
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Government must go further on reforms to end scandal of vulnerable people in secure units – Hunt
Mental health reforms must go further to address the “scandal” of vulnerable people being “effectively incarcerated” in secure institutions, a former health secretary has urged. Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt (pictured)
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Bruising to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ back were ‘ignored’ rather than missed, safeguarding chair tells MPs
Bruising to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ back was “ignored” by social services, the chair of the Government’s safeguarding review has told MPs. Caroline Johnson, a Conservative MP on the Commons’ Education Select
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Government pledge to tackle racial disparities and improve learning disability care with new reforms
The Government is aiming to tackle racial disparities and better meet the needs of those with learning difficulties as it unveils proposed reforms to mental health services. The Department for
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NHS England patients who have waited two years for treatment to be seen by August
NHS England is set to “virtually eliminate” the list of those who have waited more than two years for treatment, the chief executive has said, as patients are given the
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Social workers among council employees who ‘need and deserve’ pay rise, say Labour
Labour has called on ministers to “make a better fist” of dealing with low pay for council binmen and social workers than it has with striking railway workers. As shadow
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Government’s social care reforms could be ‘significantly underfunded’, LGA warns
Councils are concerned the Government’s adult social care reforms will be “significantly underfunded” under current plans, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. The organisation, which conducted a survey of
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Woman jailed for defrauding local authority out of £624,000 in care payments scam
A woman has been jailed for almost five years after she and her family faked a neurological condition to scam a local authority out of more than £624,000. Frances Noble,
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Sajid Javid tells of ‘deeply personal’ mission on suicide after brother’s death
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has spoken of his “deeply personal” mission to prevent suicides, four years after his brother’s death. Mr Javid’s brother, Tariq, took his own life in a
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Mental health hospital faces criminal probe after death of vulnerable man hit by train
The death of a vulnerable man who was hit by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital has sparked a criminal investigation into the care provider and its
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