Ex-World Cup ’66 team member Ray Wilson has passed away aged 83, after living with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years.

 

The Health Foundation and The King’s Fund have highlighted a worrying lack of progress on social care reform, in extensive new analysis of funding pressures and options for change. 

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week takes stress as its theme and asks the question: ‘Are we coping?’. Many men struggle to confront the answer, so it’s vital that we continue to raise awareness says Jackie Doyle-Price, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities. 

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, has welcomed the news that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has written to Jeremy Hunt calling for the NHS pay deal to be extended to those working in social care. Since February 2016, Hft has run their It Doesn’t Add Up campaign, which warns of financial pressures facing the social care sector from unfunded increases in the National Living Wage. The charity believes that the RCN call for action is a welcome step, but that it will only work if local authorities are given adequate funding to meet growing wage bills.

Medicines Discovery Catapult, the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences at the University of Liverpool and the NC3Rs combine forces to propel the UK into the race to advance organ on a chip technology.

Theresa May today led MPs in heartfelt tributes to the late Dame Tessa Jowell, who died this weekend after a battle with brain cancer.

After raising the issue in the Commons last week, Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP,  writes on the importance of nursing apprenticeships for PoliticsHome.

The Government will double its annual spend on tackling brain cancer in memory of the late Tessa Jowell, Theresa May has said.

Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive at Alzheimer Society, said: “The impact of Dame Barbara Windsor and her husband Scott speaking out about her dementia diagnosis has been instant and impressive.

Luciana Berger has hit out at the head of Unite over a “grossly offensive” article in which he accused Labour MPs of using the row over anti-Semitism to undermine Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive Officer at Alzheimer’s Society, says: "We were saddened to hear that Barbara Windsor has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease - but we applaud her husband Scott’s decision to speak out about her condition.

NHS staff will no longer share patient data with the Home Office to assist with immigration inspections, ministers have announced in an embarrassing climbdown.

NHS England must involve autistic people and their families in the development of the autism mental health care pathway and put them at the centre of any reforms that they are leading, says Lord Touhig.

New research shows that following a diet based around lower energy dense foods such as fruit and veg, lean meat and rice allows people to reduce their calorie intake while eating more food – not less.

A survey by the Care and Support Alliance of nearly 4,000 people who need care or look after someone who does reveals the damning reality of a care system that is visibly failing and unfit for purpose. 

On Wednesday 9th May, Nuffield Trust publishes a report arguing that the English social care system can learn from the Japanese model. The authors highlighted the following key learning points:

A University of California (UCSF) led study out today has suggested that concussion, even without loss of conciousness, can increase a person's risk of dementia.

Jeremy Hunt has taken aim at private hospitals who are falling behind on safety and transparency standards.

Jeremy Hunt has today launched an inquiry after it emerged that up to 450,000 women may have missed crucial breast cancer screenings due to an IT failure.

Mind is calling on the Government and local authorities to provide good quality homes and a housing system that’s easy to understand and doesn’t discriminate against people with mental health problems.

BANT has long called for a different approach to the obesity crisis and indeed it reflects what was called for by the House of Commons Health Select Committee in their Childhood Obesity inquiry.  BANT admires Jamie Oliver’s tenacity as a parent, celebrity chef, restauranteur and healthy eating ambassador, in campaigning for the greater good: the fundamental right of good health for British children.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has produced a briefing for tomorrow’s Westminster Hall debate on the Case for HPV vaccination for boys. This recommends that the UK Government:

Noel Conway, a 68-year-old man with terminal motor neurone disease who has brought a judicial review challenging the current law on assisted dying, will have his case heard at the Court of Appeal from today, Tuesday 1st May 2018. It is set to commence at 10.30am at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and last for three days. The Noel Conway v Ministry of Justice case, which is supported by Dignity in Dying, was previously rejected by the High Court but permission to appeal was granted in January 2018.

Researchers at the University of Utah have analysed the effect hearing familiar music has on the brain of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The study looked at 17 people living with dementia, using a functional MRI scan to analyse brain activity after listening to music.