Failing care homes could be put into a similar failure regime as poor-performing hospitals, the Health Secretary is to announce. Jeremy Hunt will say that most of the hospital trusts
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Police Scotland and the Scottish Government are being urged to reconsider a police operation after a charity representing sex workers raised concerns it could usher in “punitive raids in disguise”.
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Labour has called on the Government to commit to a two-year deadline to end the practice of placing vulnerable people with learning disabilities in Assessment and Treatment Units – like
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Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted she does not regret appointing Baroness Butler-Sloss to chair an inquiry into allegations of historical child sex abuse by establishment figures, after the former
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Health workers should take advantage of significant life events among the middle-aged to get them to be healthier, new NHS guidance suggests. People whose children are leaving the nest, those
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A senior judge has said there is a “highly defensive atmosphere” in social services about “future disasters” meaning that social workers are under increased pressure to intervene into the lives
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A private nursing home for the elderly in County Fermanagh is to close at the end of the month with up to 40 full and part-time staff set to lose
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More than four in ten (42%) of the UK’s unpaid carers are male, according to a new report launched today by Carers Trust and the Men’s Health Forum. The report
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Scottish Liberal Democrats have called for equality between mental and physical health services to be enshrined in law, after figures showed an increase in the number of deaths from intentional
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An inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse at the heart of the establishment is likely to turn up fresh claims about the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury
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