The room was packed out with health professionals, MPs and Tory members as Dan Bond, political editor of The House magazine, Health Select Committee member Maggie Throup, and Health Minister Philip Dunne made speeches at the Health & Care Forum's Conservative Party Conference reception last night.

A panel of experts gathered at a Labour conference fringe event last Tuesday to discuss how to transform the landscape of dementia care. 

BANT welcomes the Government’s initiative to encourage the reduction of sugar in restaurant meals to support a decrease in obesity. 

New figures published by NHS Digital (formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre) estimate the prevalence of mental health problems across the country. The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey is published every seven years and is based on the results of a household survey in England.

A new report highlights the shameful inequality between people dying with dementia and those dying without the condition. This is according to the National Dementia Intelligence Network and National End of Life Care Intelligence Network briefing published by Public Health England (PHE) today (Thursday 29 September 2016).

Alzheimer’s Society responds to  a new report which reveals the inequality experienced by people dying with dementia. 

In response to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) report, 'Follow-up to PHSO Report on unsafe discharge from hospital', Janet Morrison, Chief Executive of Independent Age, the older people’s charity, who gave evidence to the Committee, said:

Responding to the news today that Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications in England reached195,840 in 2015/16, the highest since they were introduced in 2009 and up on the 137,540 in 2014/15, Martina Kane, Senior Policy Officer at Alzheimer's Society, said:

Diane Abbott and Justin Madders debate the future of the NHS at a Health and Care Forum fringe event at the Labour conference.

The Shadow Health Secretary gave a brief speech to welcome attendees at the Health and Care Forum Reception on Sunday evening at the Labour conference.

Clean water, good sanitation and rigorous hygiene are critical components in slowing the spread of deadly superbug infections, WaterAid said today ahead of a United Nations high-level meeting on the growing threat of anti-microbial resistance.

Care services for elderly and disabled people could be at risk because nearly 80,000 workers in the sector in England don’t have British citizenship and could lose their right to work in the UK following the vote for Brexit.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today issued a report about the need for a whole Government approach to mental health. Responding to this, Mind Chief Executive Paul Farmer said:

Despite being the 5th most common cancer and 3rd biggest cause of cancer deaths – claiming more lives each year than either breast or prostate cancer – public awareness of blood cancers is very low. 

Chief Executive of Independent Age, Janet Morrison, responds to Norman Lamb, Liz Kendall and Dan Poulter's calls for cross-party health and care talks. 

Barry Sheerman MP, Co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group, hosted the parliamentary launch of Gas Safety Week. 

The Ready for Ageing Alliance (R4AA), a group of national charities which includes Alzheimer’s Society, has called the Government’s progress in planning for an ageing population “incredibly disappointing”.

The Richmond Group of Charities has today (Thursday 15 September) released Real Lives, which describes real life experiences of seven individuals and families who are using social care services today. 

Dementia research will receive £45 million over the next five years as part of a record £816 million investment in NHS research, the Health Secretary announced today.

Dozens of MPs from across party lines turned up to the launch of the new British Red Cross report this week and showed their support for people to have more opportunities to learn first aid.

58% of Clinical Commissioning Groups need to improve dementia care in their area. This is according to the new Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Improvement and Assessment Framework which has been published today (Wednesday 7 September) by NHS England. 

On National Fitness Day, Slimming World is calling for the Government to alter the focus of physical activity guidelines.

- CMO's physical activity guidelines say people should aim to be active for at least 150 minutes each week – yet only 6% of men and 4% of women reach this target

- Two thirds of the UK’s 50m+ adults have an overweight BMI, which could be making getting physically active more difficult

- 1 in 3 overweight people feel running 100m without stopping is 'difficult or impossible', and 1 in 10 feel same way about walking up a single flight of stairs, new stats show*

- Experts say current CMO guidelines are 'intimidating' for many and main message should have a twin focus (1) to reduce time spent sitting down (2) to recognise that ALL increases in activity are beneficial, no matter what a person’s starting point

Research published today (Monday 05 September) in PNAS has found magnetite, a magnetic form of iron oxide, from air pollution in human brain tissue for the first time.