Dementia patients face a gamble with their chances of recovery due to “shockingly poor” treatment offered by some NHS hospitals, the Alzheimer’s Society has warned. A study found “shocking” variations
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Failures by police and prosecutors meant three chances were missed to charge Lord Greville Janner over sex abuse claims, an independent report has found. Alleged victims of the late peer
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A “wholly inaccurate” assessment of Poppi Worthington led to a 10-month delay before care proceedings were issued over other children in the family, it can be reported. Cumbria County Council
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The NHS is to impose its own “sugar tax” in hospitals in England to help tackle the growing problem of obesity, the head of the service has said. Simon Stevens,
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Six men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation to tackle child sexual exploitation in Rochdale. The charges relate to offences said to have been committed between 2004
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The makers of Wallace and Gromit have produced a short film to address people’s misconceptions about dementia. The online video from Aardman Animations features former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston,
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The UK should have a “properly resourced” social care plan in place by 2018 to help ease the burden on the NHS, the head of the health service has said.
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Specialist family lawyers have raised fears about parents with learning difficulties being held to a “different and more onerous” standard of parenting. Their concerns have emerged in a senior family
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More than a quarter of adults have been diagnosed with a mental illness at some point during their lifetime, with a fifth reporting depression, figures show. New data from the
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A number of care homes and public bodies will come under the spotlight of the Goddard Inquiry as it resumes its probe into the late Lord Janner affair. Following the
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