Billions of pounds that could have been spent on patient care were squandered on “damaging and distracting” health reforms, an influential think tank has claimed. The coalition Government’s controversial shake-up
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A new network hoping to revolutionise care for people with Parkinson’s has issued a call for professionals to join. This week, 300 health and social care professionals and people affected
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The regulator of health and adult social care is concerned that people across England are being detained under the Mental Health Act without their legal rights being discussed or explained
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Few employers have discussed mental health issues with their staff and a “strikingly low” number have a company-wide policy in place, new research has revealed. A study by the Institute
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The NHS is on course to spend £1 billion on agency nursing staff by the end of the year due to a “payday loan attitude towards workforce planning”, a report
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An investigation into widespread sexual crimes against vulnerable women and girls as young as 13 has resulted in 20 men facing a number of charges. Operation Sanctuary, launched by Northumbria
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Theresa May is expected to announce the new chair of the troubled child abuse inquiry following the resignations of two previous holders of the post. The Home Secretary has also
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Ministers have failed to honour a pledge made in the wake of the Winterbourne View abuse scandal to move patients with learning difficulties out of hospitals and into community care,
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Rising numbers of people are facing homelessness in England amid a string of benefit cuts and a “woeful lack of affordable housing” – with an estimated 280,000 cases taking place
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New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard has been named as chair of the troubled child abuse inquiry. Home Secretary Theresa May said Justice Goddard had been selected after a
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