The government has spent its first year being reckless on the key issues that matter to people, particularly the health service, the Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.

Adults with learning difficulties at the centre of a care abuse case in Cornwall will receive nearly £1.5m in compensation from the NHS following a High Court settlement.

The death of a mental health patient who was left in a corridor for at least 10 hours could have been avoided, an inquest has ruled.

Three members of staff at a care home in Wolverhampton have been suspended over an allegation of mistreating a resident. Police are investigating an allegation at Waterside House, Wednesfield.

BBC’s Panorama programme used undercover reporter to film patients being pinned down and slapped at care home near Bristol

The UK’s care industry is on the “brink of collapse”, according to a report by the public-sector union Unison.

Southern Cross, the nation’s biggest private provider of homes for the elderly, is to shed 3,000 staff by October as it struggles to avoid financial collapse.

Four out of five dementia patients are wrongly being given “chemical cosh” drugs, leading health bodies have warned.

THE son of a frail pensioner with two types of cancer has slammed social services after she fell over in the middle of the night and died alone.

Council staff may have been been told five times in two months about fears of abuse at Winterbourne View hospital.