Around 1,100 complaints about safeguarding in aid agencies have been made since the Oxfam sex scandal in February, the head of the Charity Commission has said. Chief executive Helen Stephenson
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An app that will mark the “death knell” of the early morning scramble to secure a GP appointment is being launched, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. Patients will be
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A breast cancer charity has called on the Government to tackle a “totally unacceptable” lack of care for women with the disease. Breast Cancer Care said that, in its survey
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Breast reductions and operations to stop people snoring are among a list of treatments which could be cut back in plans to prevent more than 100,000 “unnecessary procedures” taking place
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An NHS scheme to drive integration between health and social care has not delivered the transformation of services originally planned, an official report has found. Much of the funding intended
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The independent quality regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has published a new series of resources – ‘Learning from safety incidents’ – to help those in charge of running health
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Four new reports published today by the Mental Welfare Commission of visits to units for people with learning disabilities found unacceptable levels of delayed discharge, with some patients waiting years
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A doctor implicated in a scandal at Gosport Memorial Hospital has said she was “doing her best” for patients. Jane Barton (pictured) said she was a “hard-working doctor” working in
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Northern Ireland’s Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health, Richard Pengelly, has said public concern over the quality of care home provision must be addressed. Mr Pengelly was speaking after
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Health officials have issued a safety warning after it emerged that two hospital patients died after being given the wrong type of food while suffering from swallowing difficulties. Hundreds of
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