A hospital service for kidney transplant patients has been suspended because the staff all called in sick.

JUST 12 hours after the announcement that the owners of Fleet Valley Care Home in Gatehouse had gone into administration, it was confirmed that a new owner was already lined up.

A NEW Dorset nursing home has had to be closed to new admissions after serious concerns were raised about its standards of care.

Three care home staff have been suspended after they failed to give elderly residents their medication and then covered up the error by amending confidential records, it was revealed today.

Department of Health advertising campaign aims to help more people to get early treatment for dementia

More local authorities are providing excellent services for children this year, the latest annual round-up of Ofsted assessments has found.

BASW has raised concerns that proposed proficiency standards for social workers would place unreasonable expectations on newly-qualified social workers.

Adopted children are to be given priority access to the school of their choice under the government’s revised admissions code.

The director of young people’s services in Calderdale has been suspended by the local authority. Janet Donaldson, was appointed just over two years ago on a six-figure salary.

A £13.5 million scheme to build three new “super-care” homes in York and close the city’s existing facilities is to be pushed ahead.