Wealthy people should not expect the state to pay for all their social care needs, Theresa May has said. At a lunch for Westminster journalists, the former prime minister criticised
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A fatal accident inquiry is expected to examine staffing levels at a children’s hospital where a toddler died and whether the fabric of the building contributed to his death. The
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Plans to expand the number of places that patients will be able to get care out of hospital have been hailed as the “largest expansion of choice in the NHS
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The Government’s flagship programme to build 40 new hospitals has been marred by “delay, indecision and soaring costs”, health leaders have warned. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said hospitals
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The number of emergency food parcels handed out across the UK in a single year has reached its highest level, at more than three million. The Trussell Trust food bank
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A care home provider has been fined £24,981 for failing to protect an elderly resident who had 10 falls before he died from a traumatic head injury. Claremont Care Services
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Former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster has denied “sectarianising” Stormont’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic by deploying a controversial veto mechanism to prevent the extension of restrictions. Giving
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More than 20,000 people have volunteered to be part of a study aimed at speeding up the development of dementia drugs. The group will enable scientists to involve healthy people
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The potential mental health impacts of all new government policies should be assessed before they are put in place, a new report has urged. The Centre for Mental Health charity
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Emergency legislation is needed to assert “beyond doubt” the UK “controls our own borders”, Tory MPs have said, amid claims over EU influence in Northern Ireland. The UK Government has
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