A health trust leader has pleaded with governments for the funds needed to deliver services. Neil Guckian, chief executive of Western Health Trust, said Stormont and Westminster must recognise trusts
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A father-of-three who stabbed one of his daughters during a psychotic episode has lost a High Court fight against the NHS trust providing his care. In February 2015, Marc Traylor
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The “scars” of the pandemic on young people’s mental health could last for “many years to come” without more frontline support, the shadow home secretary has said. Yvette Cooper said
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It would “probably be very unwise” of Scotland to follow England in lifting the requirement for people to self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19, a public health expert has
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Boris Johnson broke lockdown laws and must go if he deliberately lied to Parliament, former prime minister Sir John Major has said as he struck out at the “brazen excuses”
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Files detailing discussions between health company Randox, a former MP and ministers show that the Government is “simply unfit for office”, Labour has said. Labour Party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds (pictured)
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The mother of a clinically vulnerable 23-year-old has described feeling “left out of the conversation” over the removal of self-isolation laws in England. Boris Johnson said laws requiring people with
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Dame Jenni Murray has voiced her support for a referendum on legalising assisted dying. The former Woman’s Hour presenter recalled seeing her parents die some 16 years ago and said
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More than 50,000 social care workers in Wales are to get a £1,000 bonus in their pay packets this year, it has been announced. The one-off payment, due in staff
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Children may be less safe under proposed changes to NHS structures which could destabilise safeguarding partnerships that “already need urgent improvement”, a charity has warned. The NSPCC said it is
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