The King’s charity has launched a health initiative promoting playing the bagpipes to improve certain lung conditions and breathing difficulties. The Prince’s Foundation pilot programme, believed to be the first
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Care homes were seen as private organisations which should look after themselves early on in the pandemic by a Government reluctant to intervene, the boss of a major older people’s
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Woman and older people are less likely to receive gold-standard NHS care for heart problems compared with men and younger people, a study suggests. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) slammed
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Jeremy Hunt faced claims of dehumanising disabled people and launching an “assault on the poor” by announcing tougher rules on benefits. The Chancellor (pictured) said there is a need to
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Further support from the Government to help children leaving care has been welcomed but charities said more help is needed earlier otherwise “thousands more” children will end up in care.
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A pioneering national children’s charity is to close after 81 years of campaigning, as it warned many other similar organisations were facing the same “mathematical impossibilities” of rising costs. Announcing
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The Princess of Wales has praised the “really precious” work of a youth intervention charity during a visit in central London. Kate met with frontline staff and young people at
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Patients with neurological conditions struggle to get a diagnosis and feel doctors do not take their symptoms seriously, a charity has said. In a report published on Wednesday, the Brain
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A leading children’s charity has said Humza Yousaf’s Programme for Government represented a “timid step forward” in the fight against poverty. The First Minister said he would push to end
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Serious misconduct took place in a British charity set up to support asylum seekers in France, a watchdog has found. Care4Calais lacked appropriate governance structures, had poor internal financial controls
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