Some breast cancer patients could be offered hormone therapy for a decade under new NHS guidelines. And all women who have a mastectomy due to breast cancer should be offered
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It is “morally wrong” for doctors to charge victims of domestic violence for a letter to prove they were abused, a housing minister has said. Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth said
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Almost 100 families whose homes were destroyed in the Grenfell Tower fire remain stuck in hotels seven months on from the disaster, new figures show. The Royal Borough of Kensington
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Campaigners have been given the go-ahead to challenge a court ruling on the Government’s plans to cap the number of child refugees allowed into the UK. The Help Refugees charity
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The number of vacant nursing posts reached a new high of 34,260 last year, with some areas only recruiting one nurse for every 400 jobs advertised – revealing a staffing
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A steep rise in the number of detentions of mentally unwell people could be a sign that the health service is under “considerable pressure”, health inspectors have warned. In the
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A new electronic monitoring scheme for supervising offenders has been condemned by MPs as a “catastrophic” waste of taxpayers’ money. In a scathing critique, the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
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The growing problem of prescription drug addiction is to be reviewed by health officials, the Government has announced. Public health minister Steve Brine has commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to
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Within 20 years more than two million Britons will be living with four or more chronic illnesses due to years spent living a sedentary lifestyle, new research has found. Although
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Half of children in some parts of the UK are growing up in poverty, revealing a “growing crisis”, a new report warns. Research by the End Child Poverty coalition showed
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