Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, is appealing to councillors to join them in calling on the government to adequately fund learning disability social care, and help the sector meet future demands.

Cash-strapped hospitals are suffering from leaking sewage pipes, broken roofs and outbreaks of rodents because vital funds are being diverted from their maintenance budgets, Labour has claimed.

The Noel Conway case, in which Dignity in Dying is supporting a man with terminal motor neurone disease to challenge the current law on assisted dying, is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal in London from Tuesday 1st May 2018.

The leaders of the opposition parties have come together to urge ministers to back new plans to tackle unhealthy eating.

By committing to funding the NBCP roll-out across England in October, the Government will ensure that the quality of bereavement care which these families are received is as good as possible, as soon as possible, says Will Quince MP. 

Jeremy Hunt has pledged a crackdown on tech firms who are failing to protect children using social media sites with a raft of new laws.

A top Labour MP is urging ministers to stamp special sexual assault protections for emergency workers into UK law in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Which? research has revealed that people with conditions including dementia are being denied NHS funding due to where they live. 

Today, Baroness Jenkin will be asking the Health Minister to work with The Daily Mile to promote and deliver the initiative to schools nationally.  

Geoff Heyes, Policy and Campaigns Manager at mental health charity Mind, said:

Parliamentary watchdogs have launched an investigation into Jeremy Hunt after he admitted to breaching money laundering rules, PoliticsHome can reveal.

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt, writes that the UK will continue to prioritise public health after Brexit: 'Protecting and improving public health is part of our national DNA and our current and future trading partners will expect us to continue to prioritise health'.

There have been repeated failings in the use of force against mental health patients says Steve Reed MP, as he writes about the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill, the Private Members Bill he has sponsored.

The Early Access to Medicines Scheme was launched in 2014 to help patients in need get faster access to new treatments. Four years in, is the initiative going as planned? The House magazine recently hosted a roundtable with leading figures from the healthcare industry to discuss.

Diabetes UK's Helen Dickens writes that while good progress has been made by the soft drink industry to reduce sugar in products, there is still a great deal that MPs and the Government can do to help tackle the obesity crisis and begin turning the tide on weight related chronic illness.  

Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients will be given cash to plan their own treatments under new government plans.

A rise in deaths in the UK could be linked to the austerity programme imposed by the Conservative government, a Labour frontbencher has said.

Ministers have been accused of presiding over a "shocking new low" in NHS performance, as the health service posted its worst accident and emergency waiting times since records began.

A majority of voters now back a tax rise to support the NHS after a big boost in support among Conservatives, according to a major new survey.

A Labour government would set a new legal benchmark for the quality of hospital food in England and Wales, the party has announced, as it emerged some trusts spend just £3 on patients a day.

Behaviour change is extraordinarily difficult, and no challenge is greater than making healthy habits easier for the nation, says Health Minister, Steve Brine MP. 

A nationwide study of 2.8 million people over 36 years in Denmark has found that a person’s risk of developing dementia increases with the number and severity of traumatic brain injuries.

Theresa May will today commit to spending £75m on research into the early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

Preventable, treatable diseases are deadlier than ever due to inequalities in health systems. The time is now for the UK to champion health for all.