Maternity services in England have deteriorated to their lowest level, the hospitals regulator has said, as it expressed “deep concerns” about the quality of care given to mothers and babies.
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Health and care leaders need to recruit the equivalent of the population of Newcastle, the care regulator said, as it warned of a gridlock that is paralysing services and risking
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Leicestershire County Council has agreed to improve how it prepares social care and support plans after a severely visually impaired woman was left without the day-to-day support she needed for
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A grandmother has criticised medics at a scandal-hit health trust for a “catalogue of failings” around the birth of her grandson that she claims contributed to her daughter taking her
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An expert group has been set up to carry out further investigations at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) as part of a public inquiry probing problems at the flagship
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Courts are left with “no real choices” as to how to deal with vulnerable children in need of secure care placements because of an ongoing crisis in which there appears
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More complaints are being made about councils failing to provide social care – or limiting the care provided – and using cost as a justification, an ombudsman has said. The
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Nearly a quarter of mental health patients (23%) wait more than 12 weeks to start treatment, with many so desperate they turn to A&E or dial 999, a royal college
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Channel migrants are being held for up to a week in a new processing centre which is “struggling” to cope with the influx of people, a union which represents Border
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A care home and its former manager have appeared in court charged with health and safety offences following the murder of a teenage girl eight years ago. Melissa Mathieson, 18,
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