A trial date has been fixed for next year for four healthcare workers charged in connection with a probe into alleged unlawful sedation of patients. Police launched an investigation after
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British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for luring young girls to massage rooms for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest. The 60-year-old looked straight
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Podcaster and bowel cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James has died at the age of 40, her family has announced. In her final weeks, the presenter of the BBC podcast You,
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Mental health reforms must go further to address the “scandal” of vulnerable people being “effectively incarcerated” in secure institutions, a former health secretary has urged. Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt (pictured)
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Bruising to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ back was “ignored” by social services, the chair of the Government’s safeguarding review has told MPs. Caroline Johnson, a Conservative MP on the Commons’ Education Select
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The Government is aiming to tackle racial disparities and better meet the needs of those with learning difficulties as it unveils proposed reforms to mental health services. The Department for
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NHS England is set to “virtually eliminate” the list of those who have waited more than two years for treatment, the chief executive has said, as patients are given the
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Labour has called on ministers to “make a better fist” of dealing with low pay for council binmen and social workers than it has with striking railway workers. As shadow
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Councils are concerned the Government’s adult social care reforms will be “significantly underfunded” under current plans, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. The organisation, which conducted a survey of
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A woman has been jailed for almost five years after she and her family faked a neurological condition to scam a local authority out of more than £624,000. Frances Noble,
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