Forty-one projects will benefit from a share of £15 million to improve provision of mental health places of safety, the government announced today. The Department of Health funding is supporting
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A landmark £6.9 million trial that could mark a turning point in tackling Alzheimer’s disease has been launched in the UK. The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping study, backed by the
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Hospitals in England have been ordered to cut back non-urgent operations and cancel outpatient appointments in the run-up to Christmas in preparation for a possible winter crisis, official documents have
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Two teenagers who found and cared for a 90-year-old dementia sufferer who had gone missing from a care home have been praised for their “outstanding act of kindness”. Hannah Wells
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A council has agreed to pay £7,500 damages to an 11-year-old girl after delaying decisions about her future. Thurrock Council – which is based in Grays, Essex – is the
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Children at a school for young offenders were given drugs in an experimental trial approved by Home Office doctors in the 1960s, it has been reported. National Archive files show
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More than half of people who have taken money out under pension freedoms have not planned for future care costs, a new study shows. A survey of 500 people who
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The NHS may lack enough key staff to make a seven-day service work properly, leaked Health Department documents reportedly reveal. The assessments, obtained by The Guardian and Channel 4 News,
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The risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have been underestimated, experts have said. Taking the treatment to combat the effects of the menopause could mean that women are 2.7
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The first person to be charged by detectives investigating allegations of abuse and mistreatment of youngsters at a youth jail will appear in court today. Rebecca Harold, 24, was charged
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