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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The family of a retired solicitor stabbed to death by a mentally ill man following a minor shunt have blasted the NHS for failings that left him free to kill.
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An NHS Trust will review 10 killings involving its patients after admitting it “got things wrong” with the treatment of a mentally ill man who stabbed a retired solicitor to
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have punched home their message of support for the nation’s mental health sufferers as they launched an initiative to tackle the
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David Cameron has unveiled a radical overhaul of the care system that includes significant changes to adoption laws and social services. The Prime Minister called for “zero tolerance of state
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The parents of a 15-year-old boy should not be told something the youngster revealed to a social worker, a High Court judge has ruled. Mrs Justice Roberts was told that
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People with a suspected case of cancer will be given a definitive diagnosis within four weeks under ambitious new plans to provide “world-class” cancer care in England. NHS England has
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People are increasingly comfortable talking about death but too many are not “getting their affairs in order”, experts have warned. The Dying Matters Coalition and the National Council for Palliative
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Funding to provide free bus travel for the elderly and disabled in England has been cut by 40% forcing cash-strapped councils to subsidise the scheme, peers have heard. Labour has
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An NHS whistleblower who claimed she was badly treated by a hospital trust after alleging it had been fixing its death rates was treated unfairly, a report has found. Manager
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