Some adult services run by a charity for people with disabilities have been suspended after a police investigation was started at a Devon centre it operates. The Dame Hannah Rogers
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A new £9m state-of-the-art medical and social care centre is set to revolutionise how elderly people are looked after in South Tyneside. South Tyneside MBC have awarded a contract for
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A drug that can extend the lives of some women with an advanced form of breast cancer has been rejected for use by National Health Service because it is too
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Cancer patients who are lonely are three times more likely to struggle to follow their treatment plan than those who aren’t lonely, according to research by Macmillan Cancer Support. Using
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Nine out of ten councils are warning that a lack of adequate government funding could jeopardise vital reforms of the adult social care system due to commence in less than
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National charity Friends of the Elderly (FotE) is today calling on everyone to Be a Friend and help change the future of loneliness. The campaign is encouraging people across the
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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted. An
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The TaxPayers’ Alliance has published its eighth Town Hall Rich List, the Who’s Who of senior local government executives which details the job titles, full remuneration and many of the
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Police have made an arrest after several people from a care home in West Bromwich were taken ill with symptoms similar to food poisoning. The arrest was made at Goldfield
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A Leicestershire young offenders prison has been heavily criticised as “unsafe” in a new report which exposes concerns over bullying, violence and self-harm. The report, published by Nick Hardwick, Chief
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