The Department of Health is to consider a mass vaccination of children in England against chickenpox. Experts have been drafted in to weigh up the benefits following a recommendation from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
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Asking drug dealers to talk candidly might seem like taking your life in your hands. But local volunteers recruited to carry out research among pushers, users and their families in the BD5 postal area of Bradford have presented a vivid portrait of the impact of drugs on their community.
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Former city health and social work leader Kingsley Thomas has been appointed to a national committee designed to improve the quality of social services.
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Controversial plans to close a Lymington old people’s home have been described as “cruel” by the town’s mayor.
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A new service to help patients and their families raise concerns about the NHS was launched in Scotland yesterday.
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The young man’s face is out of picture, the camera focusing only on the gash splitting his thumb from the rest of his fingers.
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A young woman told a jury how she was ambushed by a teenage sex attacker and pulled down a dark alleyway in Edinburgh’s New Town.
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For 30 agonising years, the families of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott had hoped for justice. Last night, after a sensational day of twists and turns, that hope had turned to dust.
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A serving Dyfed-Powys Police officer has admitted a charge of possessing an indecent image of a child. Mark James Bretherick, 33, from Forden, near Welshpool, admitted before Swansea Crown Court downloading the image from the internet.
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Three children have been removed from their parents and taken into care because they are too fat, it has emerged.
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