Giving existing staff new roles and extra responsibilities should not be seen as a “quick fix” solution to plug the NHS’s workforce gap, a patients’ group has warned. The Patients
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Almost half of people who have survived a stroke feel abandoned when they leave hospital, according to new research. A poll of more than 1,100 stroke survivors in England found
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A paedophile has joined his father, brother and nephew in becoming the family’s fourth convicted child sex offender. Derek Smith, 50, from Darlington, has been jailed for 16 years after
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A Hertfordshire scheme which helps keep people out of hospital by giving them the care they need in their own homes has won a prestigious award. HomeFirst scooped the Local
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People put off visiting their GP with symptoms of dementia due to fears that their lives “will be over”, research suggests. A poll for the Alzheimer’s Society found 56% of
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Rising levels of violence, self-harm and suicides behind bars threaten to “severely undermine” the Government’s prisons overhaul, a parliamentary report has warned. Safety in jails in England and Wales continues
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Midwives have reacted with fury after the chief executive of their union reportedly backed a campaign to scrap the abortion time limit without consulting its members. Royal College of Midwives
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Nearly a million over-75s are living in poverty, a charity has warned. Hundreds of thousands of these poverty-stricken pensioners are in a “poverty trap” with little hope of escape in
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The Royal College of Midwives has reiterated its stance on abortion following reports that the head of the union backed a campaign to scrap the abortion time limit without consulting
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Council bosses have been ordered to pay a teenager embroiled in family court proceedings £17,500 damages after a judge concluded that social services staff had failed to “properly assess” and
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