Thousands of dementia patients are being taken to hospital because of a fall, a new study has found. Researchers tracked 8,000 people living with dementia for more than two years
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Police are investigating the death of a child at the centre of a public inquiry in Northern Ireland. Claire Roberts, nine, died in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital in 1996 from
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Independent hospitals must get their houses in order on patient safety if they are to partner with the NHS, the Health Secretary has said In a letter to the chief
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has supported calls to build sheltered accommodation on hospital sites. Veteran Labour MP Mike Gapes made the suggestion after telling ministers there were currently 1.2 million
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The proposed closure of key children’s services at a hospital has sparked claims from patient campaigners that lives could be at risk. Health chiefs have said a temporary closure of
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Tawel Fan ward, an older people’s mental health ward in the Ablett Unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan was closed in December 2013 following concerns being raised about the
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The Welsh Government is demanding that a problem-plagued health board makes further improvements to services following the publication of a report into the closure of a hospital ward for dementia
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A new inquiry into the care of dementia patients on a troubled mental health ward in North Wales has been branded a “whitewash” after it said there was no institutional
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Scottish Labour has renewed calls for a public inquiry into mental health services at NHS Tayside, accusing the government of silence over the issue. Party leader Richard Leonard raised the
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A breast cancer screening error affecting 450,000 women may have led to hundreds of lives being cut short, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed. Mr Hunt told the Commons that
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