Patients will be urged to “self-manage” conditions online and see nurses and pharmacists as part of a major shake-up of GP surgeries. NHS England has announced a five-year plan to
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Record numbers of web pages containing child sexual abuse images are being detected following a dramatic spike in reports, a watchdog has revealed. Some 68,092 URLs were identified and taken
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More domestic violence victims will be able to access legal aid after the Government relaxed the rules because they were previously declared legally flawed by the Court of Appeal. In
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A spurned lover has been jailed for 19 years for stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her 86-year-old fiance to death after trawling the internet for Breaking Bad poison, a court heard.
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Adults with autism have been held on mental health wards for months on end because suitable living arrangements could not be found for them. Statistics show that there were five
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The number of sex crimes reported to police has passed 100,000 in a year for the first time, while homicides jumped by more than a tenth, official figures have revealed.
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The Government has paid more than £4 million in compensation to people held unlawfully in immigration detention centres in 2014-15. A Freedom of Information request by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire
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Health-conscious “new men” may be largely responsible for a dramatic reduction in rates of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia over the past 20 years, research suggests. Despite fears of
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Young women are cutting their pension contributions to cover the cost of childcare, risking poverty when they retire, a new report has warned. The Fawcett Society said women in their
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Many people with dementia are receiving “disjointed and substandard” care, MPs have warned. Seven in ten people with the condition are also suffering from another long-term health problem but these
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