A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the collapse of an £800 million NHS contract to outsource care of older and mentally ill people, the Commons spending watchdog warned. An influential
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The way drugs are approved for NHS use is leaving some patients begging for medicines, a new report suggests. The way medicines are assessed can be cruel and leads to
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Patients are a fifth more likely to die in hospitals where nurses are replaced with less-qualified staff, new research suggests. The study found patients were more likely to die and
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The “damning” findings of the review on social mobility highlight the “worrying” social divisions in modern Britain, MPs and charities have warned. Campaigners said “urgent” action was needed to put
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Stephen Fry has lent his voice to a campaign that explores a Christmas without Santa, who has “forgotten” the festive season due to the effects of dementia. The campaign, called
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Police cells should no longer be used to detain people suffering mental health crises, a charity has said. Mental health charity Mind said that a move away from using police
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Another senior lawyer has reportedly quit the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Aileen McColgan has resigned from the investigation due to concerns over its leadership, BBC Newsnight reported. Ms
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease has become the leading cause of death in England and Wales for the first time, new figures show. An ageing population and better diagnosis of the
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The Government’s “shambolic” approach to Brexit risks hitting workers in the UK, Labour warned as it called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to abandon austerity in his Autumn Statement. Shadow chancellor
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Council bosses have paid a vulnerable transgender teenager nearly £5,000 damages after a member of staff breached his human rights by revealing personal information. The teenager, now 17, had taken
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