Hearing aids provided by the NHS should not be restricted based on “hearing thresholds”, health officials have said. New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)
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Classifying gaming addiction as a mental health condition is premature, experts have warned. The World Health Organisation (WHO) included “gaming disorder” in the latest revision of its disease classification manual,
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Grandparents, not council bosses, should have responsibility for two boys who have been at the centre of Family Court litigation, appeal judges have ruled. A Family Court judge had decided
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The new Armed Forces’ rehabilitation centre could soon provide on-site NHS services offering world-leading care for civilians. The £300 million Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC), which was created thanks
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Senior MPs have raised concerns that potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens could “fall through the cracks” of the Government’s new immigration scheme. Home Office ministers were warned that
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Ministers were accused of being in “absolute denial” over their flagship benefit scheme after Esther McVey hailed it for showcasing “British innovation”. The Work and Pensions Secretary gave a ministerial
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The racially-motivated murder of a refugee by a mental health patient who had been released from a psychiatric hospital was “avoidable”, a review has found. Jeffrey Barry, 57, stabbed to
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An 18-year-old who was allegedly allowed to “rot to death” had appeared healthy in the preceding months, his mother has told a court. Dawn Cranston, 45, claimed that her son,
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A senior judge has concluded that a woman accused of not complying with an order made in a family court was wrongly given a three-month suspended prison sentence. Mr Justice
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A foster carer who sued her former agency over allegations that prevented her from working has accepted substantial damages at the High Court. Francine West brought proceedings for defamation, malicious
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