A trust is experiencing “ongoing challenges” as it manages a gender identity services clinic for young people ahead of its closure and replacement with regional services, a health watchdog said.
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The number of “excess deaths” linked to diabetes has risen to higher than expected levels, a charity has warned. Diabetes UK said that there were more than 7,000 excess deaths
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Acts of sexual violence commonly found in pornography were referenced in half of police interview transcripts of child-on-child sex abuse cases examined by the Children’s Commissioner for England. Dame Rachel
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Ensuring that nurseries and childminders have enough staff to expand free childcare for families is a “challenge”, an education minister has suggested. Claire Coutinho (pictured) acknowledged that “lots of childminders
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Patients will be able to obtain prescription medicines and oral contraception directly from pharmacies under a blueprint to ease the pressure on GPs’ appointments. Treatments for seven common conditions including
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More pharmacies are expected to close unless the Government provides “urgently” needed funding to the “struggling” sector, industry leaders have said. The warnings come as healthcare providers await Government proposals
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Momentum for reform social care in England after the sector suffered during the pandemic risks being lost due to Government delays, a new report has warned. Now is a “pivotal
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The majority of people think care workers should be paid the same as pharmacy assistants and some other NHS workers, according to research by an organisation working to support people
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The value of unpaid care in England and Wales has risen by almost a third in a decade and is almost equivalent to a second NHS, a new research estimate
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The social care minister has said she wants to see workers in the sector rewarded as she was questioned about the decision to halve previously promised workforce funding. Helen Whately
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