Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has spoken of his "shock" after being diagnosed with diabetes.

Billy Davis, Public Affairs and Policy Manager at Hft, responds to the Queen's Speech. 

New research has revealed that the number of carers aged over 80 has rocketed over the last decade.

A bill guaranteeing a multi-billion cash boost for the NHS will be the first piece of domestic legislation introduced by the new Government.

Nursing students will get a new £5,000 a year grant from next September to help with the cost of their courses.

In September 2019 Ron Hogg announced he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and called for a change in the law on assisted dying.

Alzheimer’s Society is delighted to announce that Kate Lee, currently Chief Executive Officer at children and young people’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent, will take up the reins as the charity’s new CEO in April 2020.

New data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shows that hundreds of thousands of people with mental health problems have seen their support from benefits like DLA and PIP cut completely.

As our new Parliament sits, the Royal Osteoporosis Society calls on the Government to live up to their promises and invest in FLS now to reduce the burden of hip fractures on the NHS next winter.

We’ll make sure this new Government doesn’t forget about those of us with mental health problems. We know the public is increasingly concerned about mental health and we will continue to hold this Government to account for its actions, says Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind. 

Whoever forms our next government, it is clear that greater ambition is needed on mental health, writes Mind. 

Labour has vowed to pull the NHS back from the "brink" as research by the party revealed patients and staff are being put at risk in hospitals across England.

Boris Johnson was labelled a “disgrace” for pocketing a reporter’s phone when he was asked to look at the image of a sick toddler lying on the floor of a hospital because there were not enough beds.

The first publication of data from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s 2019-20 Winter Flow Project shows that existing data does not reflect the true scale of the problem of 12 hour stays in A&E.

Boris Johnson has announced plans to launch a probe into the source of a leaked UK-US trade document.

Today Biogen presented their results on Aducanumab, their newest drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease at the CTAD conference 2019 in San Dieago USA. Alzheimer's Society comments.

New Age UK analysis has found that, during the 917 days between the last General Election on 8th June 2017 and the upcoming Election on 12th December 2019, the lack of social care resulted in 2.5 million lost bed days in the NHS.

Two new papers are being published in Science Translational Medicine which shed more light on the mechanism that leads to cognitive ageing in mice and humans. 

Boris Johnson has vowed to deliver a tax-cutting Budget within days of the UK leaving the EU if the Conservatives win the election.

People with learning disabilities should have the same opportunities to exercise their voting rights as everyone else, says Amy Gordon, Involvement Coordinator at Hft.

Donald Trump has insisted the United States will have "absolutely nothing to do with" the NHS after Brexit as he appeared to back Boris Johnson to stay on as Prime Minister.

Jeremy Corbyn has written to Donald Trump to demand that the NHS "will truly be taken off the table" in a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the US.

Launching their manifesto, Slimming World believes that this lack of consistency in how to tackle obesity has led to confusion among the public and health professionals.

Today Nuffield Trust released new analysis that reveals that up to 90,000 home care workers for the over 65s are needed immediately if the main parties’ manifesto pledges to expand and reform social care are to be met.