Childline is handling soaring numbers of calls from children seeking help for suicidal thoughts, a new report has revealed. The NSPCC service held 19,481 counselling sessions about suicide in 2015/16
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A much-criticised health trust has admitted creating a new job for its former chief executive who resigned after saying her position had become untenable. Katrina Percy announced her decision to
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One of Britain’s oldest nurses has celebrated her 83rd birthday – and vowed to carry on working. Monica Bulman started work aged 19 in 1952 – just four years after
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Safe houses for women and children escaping domestic violence are to be exempted from the Government’s planned welfare cuts, Theresa May has said. The Prime Minister came under pressure from
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Regular exercise could cancel out the risk of death from serious illnesses linked to alcohol, research has shown. A study has found that moderate physical activity counteracts the “biological disease
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Patients with dementia, diabetes and learning disabilities are being let down by their local health services in many parts of England, new figures show. A postcode lottery of care across
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Data from health apps and wearable activity trackers such as Fitbits will feed directly into people’s personal health records, the Health Secretary has announced. Jeremy Hunt said that a new
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Former head of the independent child sexual abuse inquiry Dame Lowell Goddard resigned “because she found it too much for her”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has suggested. A Commons committee
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The wide-ranging inquiry into child sex abuse needs to be completely reviewed and remodelled, the judge who resigned as its head last month has warned. Dame Lowell Goddard delivered a
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Keith Vaz has quit as head of one of the most influential House of Commons committees after becoming embroiled in a rent boy scandal. The high profile MP said “those
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