Bupa today made a further step into the care village sector by acquiring Richmond Care Villages. Richmond currently owns and operates five care villages in England which are home to

Health ministers from across the world will flock to London in December for the first ever G8 summit on dementia. The Department of Health has today unveiled David Cameron’s ambitious

A Lincolnshire hospice which opened in 2011 has yet to admit a patient. The £1.5m Butterfly Hospice in Boston, which is run by a registered charity, took two years to

Two reviews into the murders of a woman and her two-year-old daughter have criticised the actions of Essex Police and social workers. David Oakes shot Christine Chambers, 38, and daughter

Local government will continue to be restricted unless it allows women to contribute effectively, a senior policy thinker has warned. Female council workers are currently being pigeonholed into what are

A shameful catalogue of failings at a Blackpool care home were today laid bare in a shocking report. Government inspectors visited the Abbeydale Nursing Home, in South Shore, as patients

Police have reopened a 10-year-old investigation into sexual abuse at a former County Durham detention centre, which saw two staff jailed. Church minister Neville Husband, who worked at Medomsley juvenile

The chair of Amnesty International UK has resigned after making a series of jokes about mental health on his Twitter page. Ciarnan Helferty, 26, made the comments over a number

A new dementia assessment unit has opened in Carlisle today. The £2.6 million Ruskin Unit at the Carleton Clinic has been designed to provide a calm and safe environment for

A Conservative-controlled council in the Midlands are considering radical plans that would force the parents of children taken into care to pay or make contributions towards the cost of the