Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials are calling for further investigations into possible similar offences in the past. Three people have been jailed since April for crimes dating back decades. In each instance, the church had been alerted but failed to take action.

A mental health nurse from Farnborough in Hampshire has been struck off the register after admitting sharing a tent with a vulnerable client. A panel of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Conduct and Competence Committee yesterday Eric Brian Phillips, who at the time was working for the Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust, guilty of misconduct.

The government today unveiled a new agreement for funding the training of nurses and allied health professions, which is designed to prevent health authorities from raiding training budgets to offset NHS deficits.

A Citizens Advice Bureau adviser who was dismissed after she broke confidentiality rules to help to save the life of a suicidal caller has won her claim for unfair dismissal.

The government’s advisers on medicine knew that patients were at risk of contracting Aids from imported blood products as early as 1983, but ruled against a ban because of fears it would cause a shortage of supply.

The government’s shake-up of GP out-of-hours care has been criticised after an inquiry into a woman’s death. Penny Campbell, 41, from Islington, north London, died of septicaemia in 2005, after consulting eight different doctors over the four-day Easter break.

A nationally and internationally-renowned charity is set to help even more children with disabilities access life changing educational opportunities through an exciting new training venture.

A Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) has decided the case of a social worker from Lincoln who was alleged to have breached the code of practice for social care workers by maintaining a grossly offensive website as well as possessing indecent photographs of children.