Around 1.5 million adults may have missed out on being screened for signs of potentially harmful drinking habits, researchers believe, after a scheme offering GPs financial incentives to discuss the
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Routine safety checks on the dangers offenders could pose to children, their partners and the public are not being carried out as probation officers buckle under the pressure of overwhelming
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Prescribing contact with nature to people with poor mental health would improve their wellbeing and ease the burden on the NHS, new research has found. People experiencing problems, such as
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A consultant who admitted failing to cooperate at the inquest of a mentally ill teenager who killed herself in care will finally be sentenced later this month after a court
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Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to a veteran who died with no known family. Members of the public were invited to the funeral of 100-year-old
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A woman with learning disabilities, who was at the centre of an abortion battle, should be fitted with a contraceptive device, a judge in a specialist court has decided. The
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Thousands of applications made to the EU Settlement Scheme by people asking for the right to remain in the UK after Brexit have been unsuccessful, figures suggest. The Home Office
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The nominees for this year’s Social Worker of the Year Awards have been announced. 94 practitioners, social work teams and organisations from across England have been shortlisted this year in
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Plans to give a town’s 15 worst heroin addicts two daily doses of diamorphine have been revealed. The treatment plan in Middlesbrough – using medical grade heroin – is the
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Fewer than one in five local authorities have a dedicated appeals process for social care, according to new research by Independent Age, the older people’s charity. This means the only
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