Former care services minister says department is delaying urgent decision on how to fund elderly and disabled care

New antenatal care guidelines published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommending that pregnant women in the UK should have access to the same named midwife throughout their pregnancy have been endorsed by the RCM.

Carers will be electronically monitored in Cambridgeshire to prevent appointments being missed or cut short.

There is one month left to comment on the draft Care and Support Bill and have your say on the largest overhaul of the law around adult care and support in 60 years.

A holding facility for failed asylum-seeking families to stay in before they are deported from the UK should take in more people, a watchdog has said.

Police were left shocked and disgusted when officers discovered three young children tucked away in a Peterborough house living in filth and neglected by their mother.

Elderly people moved from NHS treatment to care services at home are often kept out from decisions which affect them, a major new study reported today.

Of the UK’s biggest care providers, Bupa Care Homes, has called upon the newly appointed Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to focus on social care funding as his key challenge, after a recent report estimated the total funding shortfall in England to stand at a staggering £892m.

Changes designed to reduce the budget of adult social care in Lincolnshire have ended up costing the county council more.

Inappropriate comments by Dame Jo Williams highlight the difficulties faced by service users on committees