Dignity in Dying has welcomed the commitment that the Government of Jersey will commission research into end-of-life choices, with the explicit...
Responding to the release of performance figures for January 2019 which show worst ever four-hour performance and the highest ever number of...
Independent Age, the older people’s charity, has today expressed new concerns about the government’s commitment to the social care green paper,...
Policy and Campaigns Manager at Mind, Paul Spencer, says:
Alzheimer’s Society and Sport England have joined forces to call on the sport and physical activity sector to commit to becoming dementia friendly...
The Government has launched a recruitment campaign to try to plug a hole of 110,000 vacancies in the social care workforce.
The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) is a piece of legislation that made changes to the types of legal problem...
Stephen Hammond was caught off guard when Theresa May asked him to join the government in November. Though he has undergone a remarkable...
On the day of his death, Geoffrey Whaley has released an open letter to MPs urging them to legalise assisted dying as an option for dying Brits....
Fraudulent medicines threaten to endanger patients post-Brexit, writes Lib Dem peer Baroness Walmsley.
A poll of more than 1000 GPs has found that most doctors would want their medical bodies to be neutral on the subject of assisted dying.
Ministers will launch a fresh crackdown on "above the law" social media firms today as they promise a raft of measures aimed a curbing online...
On World Cancer Day, Henry Smith MP writes that through earlier diagnosis, more personalised care and enhanced mental health backing, we can...
With both the housing system and mental health services being squeezed, it is too often those in the most vulnerable situations who slip through...
We cannot change the number of people who develop sepsis, as it is not preventable, but we can significantly reduce the number of people who lose...
Matt Hancock has blocked plans by the NHS to cancel some blood donation sessions after health chiefs claimed a no-deal Brexit would force them to...
Blood donation sessions have been cancelled after concerns were raised over traffic gridlock in Kent as a result of a no-deal Brexit.
Derek Prentice, Lay Group Chair of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has written an open letter to NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens...
The body representing over 8,000 Emergency Medicine clinicians, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, is extremely concerned by the comments...
It cannot be right that in hospitals, the very places we go to recover from our ills, people smoke freely right outside the front door, writes...
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