Round the clock care for dementia patients will be provided by a new Worcestershire facility if a charity’s plans become a reality.

THE manager of a sheltered housing scheme fears she has lost her job and her home – for caring too much.

THREE residents of a Greater Manchester care home at the centre of a police investigation died within weeks of each other, a coroner heard. But the inquest ruled there was no evidence that neglect led to any of the deaths.

Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS.

A new deal for 300,000 disabled survivors of a life-threatening stroke was put in place today. Health ministers handed over £77m from the NHS budget to support the rehabilitation of survivors by local authority social services in England.

The number of people with dementia in the UK could soar to over 20 million in less than 20 years, according to the Alzheimer’s Society.

A PSYCHIATRIC patient escaped from her carers during a visit to a dentist in Bury. Police are now urging members of the public not to approach Carrie McCarten who, without her medication, could become violent.

Yorkshire foster carers have opened their hearts about the joys of the job as part of a campaign to bring more Leeds folk on board.

Labour is making the fight against child poverty a central aim because the party feels “outrage” at the waste of lives, unlike the Tories who pay “lip service” to the government’s commitments, a senior cabinet minister said yesterday.

The government has ordered a review of how schools should educate the country’s estimated 300,000 dyslexic children, after admitting that many are being left to flounder without tailored teaching.