Regular monitoring of prostate cancer as a treatment option offers the same chances of survival 10 years after diagnosis as surgery or radiotherapy, a major study into the disease has
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One of the country’s biggest not-for-profit providers of care in the community is pulling out of the market. Housing And Care 21 works with 150 local authorities to provide care
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Family courts need to stop believing the “myth” that men with a history of abusing women can be good fathers, an MP has said. Labour’s Angela Smith said the “discredited”
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The new chairwoman of the national inquiry into child sexual abuse will earn £185,000 a year. Professor Alexis Jay, who was named as the fourth head of the probe last
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Social workers play a vital role in preventing mental health crises and should be given more scope to practice their skills, an inquiry into mental health services in England has
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The Department of Health has now opened bidding for the £25 million fund to help people with learning disabilities live independently. The fund is aimed at creating a range of
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Jeremy Hunt has published details of how a record £816 million investment in NHS research – announced in the spending review – will be spent. Research projects covering mental health,
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Doctors often get it wrong when predicting how long terminally ill people have left to live, new research suggests. A review of more than 4,600 medical notes where doctors predicted
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Some healthcare workers are failing to take young victims of trafficking seriously, a study has found. Young victims of trafficking are facing “many barriers” which prevent them from accessing adequate
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A union is taking a legal case on behalf of home care workers, saying they are paid less than half the minimum wage. Seventeen home care workers employed across the
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