The coalition Government is all set to publish its Health and Social Care Bill later this week, which would see the biggest transformation of the NHS in its six decade long history. 

Prime Minister David Cameron vigorously defended radical government plans to overhaul the NHS on Monday as a necessary modernisation after health unions said the plans, being unveiled this week, were “potentially disastrous.”

Charities have warned that Government cuts to funds that help disabled people get around will take those affected “back to the dark ages”.

A blanket ban on the use of dangerous restraint techniques should be applied to all children’s settings, an MP has said.

Even in the good years, when public money was plentiful, care for the elderly was a Cinderella service: under-funded, under-regulated and under-loved. Now in times of austerity things are about to get much worse.

BIRMINGHAM’S children’s social care chief has lifted the lid on management tensions within the troubled department and likened social workers to a colony of penguins.

In 1991 Somerset County Council became the first in the country to outsource its elderly care to an independent company.

A CONSULTATION into the future of elderly people’s homes has been branded a “sham” after county councillors backed controversial plans to privatise services, despite admitting the “vast majority” of people asked opposed them.

THE only charity providing therapy for Merseyside’s paedophile victims is facing closure because of funding problems.

A TODDLER who died from horrific injuries in Birmingham was on the at-risk register and was seen by social workers just days before his death.