City-living significantly increases the risk of psychotic experiences such as hearing voices and paranoia in young people, research has shown. The study of 2,000 British 18-year-olds found that those growing
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NHS trusts are expected to have seen a shortfall of as much as £750 million in the last financial year, a health chief has said. Chris Hopson, chief executive of
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The first victim of the Manchester bomb attack at the city’s arena has been named by her college as Georgina Callander. Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, spoke of its “enormous
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The suicide bomber who brought carnage to the Manchester Arena has been named as Salman Abedi. Monday night’s attack at a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande left 22
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The National Autistic Society is encouraging autistic people across the UK, and their families, to talk to their local general election candidates about autism, by holding candidate coffee mornings. The
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said the Manchester explosion was a “barbaric” attack on some of the “most vulnerable in our society”. She said the intention of the attack was
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More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the sexual health aid worker who first uncovered sexual abuse dramatised in BBC drama Three Girls to be recognised
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The Duchess of Cambridge has praised the extraordinary work of “dedicated and inspirational” staff and volunteers at children’s hospices across the UK. To mark the beginning of Children’s Hospice Week,
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Tory plans to shake-up funding for social care could see nine out of 10 English homes eligible to be put on the market to cover treatment costs, the Liberal Democrats
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Conservative plans for councils to recoup the care costs of elderly people from their estates after they die may flounder due to poor-performing local authorities, a former pensions minister has
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