Councils cannot charge people for the first six weeks of intermediate care, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has warned, following an investigation into a complaint about North Somerset
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Four students who sexually abused vulnerable girls have been jailed for between four and five years after a judge said they had treated their victims like “trophies”. Taiyab Hussain, Shaheem
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Ministers spent £5 million preparing a policy that affected 90 people in its first three months before it was scrapped, according to new figures. Last month Work and Pensions Secretary
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A man who ended his life in a euthanasia clinic after allegedly having acid thrown in his face by his ex-girlfriend may have been trying to hurt her instead, a
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Health officials have reversed a decision over whether a genetic test for breast cancer patients should be used by the NHS. The Oncotype DX test was provisionally rejected for use
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Student nurses who had their loans cut off or reduced after an administrative error meant they were previously paid too much are to get “immediate help”, the universities minister has
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The family of a “bubbly” and “loving” grandmother say the answer to their desperate search for a stem cell donor to save her life probably lies in the Jewish community.
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Parliament’s Standards Commissioner has opened an inquiry into Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over his failure to declare an investment in luxury flats for rent. Mr Hunt has already apologised for
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A consultant has told an inquest that anti-psychotic drugs she prescribed to a teenager were “one of the contributing factors” in his death. Thomas Oliver McGowan, 18, who was mildly
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Aid agencies should introduce a better gender balance in order to combat sexual abuse by mainly male staff, a former Oxfam executive has told MPs. Such a move is “absolutely
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