Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.

Pregnant women are being denied antenatal care by the NHS because of their immigration status, endangering mother and baby, a medical charity has found.

A toddler choked to death on a drawstring after a nursery ignored “well-recognised risks” by hanging a cloth bag from her cot, an inquest was told.

A Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) on 29 June 2007 decided the case of a social worker from London who was alleged to have breached the code of practice for social care workers.

Moors murderer Ian Brady has offered the police a macabre final deal. He says he will show them where he buried Keith Bennett – his only child victim whose body has never been found – in exchange for being allowed to kill himself.

More counselling is needed in primary schools because children as young as four are showing signs of depression, a charity has warned. Young children are harming themselves and even contemplating suicide because they are so unhappy, according to The Place2Be, which provides advice in schools.

A hearing into the conduct of a Registered Social Worker from Newcastle upon Tyne will be held from 9 to 11 July 2007 by the social care workforce regulator for England the General Social Care Council (GSCC).

In the wake of the recent Counsel and Care survey, directors of adult social services have renewed their calls on government to improve the balance of funding between the health

More than a quarter of people in the UK do not use contraception when they lose their virginity, a survey has claimed. The poll by condom makers Durex of more than 26,000 people in 26 countries puts the UK in the bottom half of the table for practising safe sex.

Safety will continue to be the top priority for the Healthcare Commission when it carries out its annual performance ratings of NHS trusts next year. This message is outlined in the Commission’s newly published plan for the 2007/2008 annual health check.