One in five people diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in the last three years waited a year or more to see a neurologist. A poll of more than 900
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Government welfare cuts will lead to an increase in suicides, a prominent crossbench peer has warned. Baroness Meacher, who led the fight in the House of Lords against planned cuts
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Rupert Neudeck, the co-founder of Germany-based humanitarian aid group Cap Anamur, which helped to rescue more than 10,000 Vietnamese “boat people”, has died aged 77, the organisation said. Mr Neudeck,
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NHS England has stood firm on its decision not to fund a preventative treatment for HIV. A row erupted earlier this year after the body said it would not routinely
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One in three prisoners said they had taken drugs formerly known as “legal highs” in the last month, a poll found. Of 625 respondents, 33% of inmates reported having used
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The number of infections resistant to “last-resort antibiotics” in Scottish hospitals has tripled in two years, new figures have shown. There were 66 organisms resistant to last-ditch carbapenem antibiotics in
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Security chiefs at MI5 and MI6 have told a public inquiry there is no evidence they knew about or covered up child abuse at the former Kincora Boys’ Home. The
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A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender who arrived in the UK by “clandestine” means has been told to pay legal fees run up by Home Secretary Theresa May after a
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The significant case review into the death of toddler Liam Fee must address why he fell “off the radar” of social services despite concerns being raised about him on numerous
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One of Britain’s worst paedophiles is facing multiple life sentences for a catalogue of horrific sex crimes against Malaysian children which he bragged about on the “dark web”. Freelance photographer
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