Calls to a dementia helpline have risen 10% year on year, with many families seeking help over Christmas, figures show. Data from the Alzheimer’s Society shows calls have more than
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The NHS is relying on less qualified staff to plug workforce gaps due to a huge shortage of nurses, a new report says. Support staff, such as healthcare assistants and
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A judge is set to decide whether a man with mental health difficulties who admits having fantasies involving sexual violence and children can visit a prostitute. Council social services bosses
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A police sergeant has kept his job despite him being found guilty of gross misconduct after sensitive information about sex offenders ended up in a skip. Martin Skirving-Chehab, a Cleveland
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The Home Office has lost a legal bid to overturn a court ruling which found it had detained asylum seekers unlawfully. The judgment may pave the way for a wave
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Labour and the Tories have been involved in a furious clash over claims the Conservatives would put the NHS “up for sale” in a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.
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Labour has accused the Conservatives of negotiating a secret trade deal with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies. Jeremy Corbyn said they had obtained uncensored
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A rising number of modern slavery victims are being used by crime gangs to carry out home improvement scams, according to Trading Standards. Teams across England are reporting more cases
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Police have issued a CCTV image of a man in an appeal for information after a young boy reported he was sexually assaulted in his bedroom by an intruder. Officers
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Patients experience a “postcode lottery” in accessing physiotherapy following a knee or hip replacement, researchers say. Their new study found that people are more likely to receive physiotherapy if they
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