Tributes have been paid to two care home residents who died in a boating accident. Alex Wood, 43, and Alison Tilsley, 63, died during an incident on Roadford Lake, near
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Patients must not be “left in a void” waiting for care owing to a shortage of GPs, a leading expert has suggested. Sir Robert Francis QC, who is chairman of
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A mentally ill woman deliberated drowned her four-year-old son in the bath after confessing to an earlier attempt three years before, a jury has found. Oluwakemi Badare, 37, gave conflicting
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An MP who made an “unwanted sexual advance” on a teenage staff member faces a two-day suspension from the Commons. SNP MP Patrick Grady said he was “profoundly sorry” for
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A new report published today by Social Care Wales reveals that around 91,000 people work in the social care sector in Wales. The report also shows that more than 80
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The Health Secretary will vow to ensure researchers can access patient data “safely and efficiently” as a new strategy aims to “close the digital divide” between the NHS and social
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The “inhumane” practice of sending mental health patients hundreds of miles away from home for treatment must end, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. A failure to stop so-called
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The “devastated” mother of a 12-year-old boy who was at the centre of a life-support treatment fight says relatives aim to appeal after a High Court judge ruled that the
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An ex-Radio One DJ who arranged to have sex with vulnerable children in the Philippines has had his jail term increased from 12 years to 18 years by Court of
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The number of child cruelty and neglect offences increased by a quarter in a year as England emerged from the pandemic, police figures indicate. Freedom of information (FOI) requests to
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