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Duty of Candour In NHS 'Not Working', Says Inquiry Chair
Duty of Candour In NHS "Not Working", Says Inquiry Chair
Health
The NHS is failing to be honest with patients when things go wrong, according to a former chair of investigations into preventable deaths on maternity wards.
'All Peopled Out': Labour MP Cat Eccles On Being Autistic In Westminster
Health
"All Peopled Out": Labour MP Cat Eccles On Being Autistic In Westminster
Public Likely To Comply With Lockdown Measures To Halt New Pandemic, Poll Suggests
Health
Public Likely To Comply With Lockdown Measures To Halt New Pandemic, Poll Suggests
UK Google Interview: We Need Data Centres And Grid Connections, Fast
Health
UK Google Interview: We Need Data Centres And Grid Connections, Fast
Abolishing NHS England Will Not Work, Says Former Health Secretary Behind Its Creation
Health
Abolishing NHS England Will Not Work, Says Former Health Secretary Behind Its Creation
Abolishing NHS England Became 'Inevitable' – But What Happens Next?
Health
Abolishing NHS England Became "Inevitable" – But What Happens Next?
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Health
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Opinion
Self-care: an untapped resource Partner content
Health
By Kenvue
Self-care: an untapped resource
Our challenge to the House of Lords: It’s time to make smoking obsolete Partner content
Health
By British Heart Foundation
Our challenge to the House of Lords: It’s time to make smoking obsolete
Experts are divided over six-month safeguard for assisted dying
Health
By Katherine Sleeman and Sam Ahmedzai
Experts are divided over six-month safeguard for assisted dying
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Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks
Former Defence Minister Says Homes Must Stockpile Candles, Radios And Iodine Tablets To Prepare For Attacks
Communities
How Keir Starmer Keeps His Massive Parliamentary Party In Line
How Keir Starmer Keeps His Massive Parliamentary Party In Line
Political parties
MPs Say They Will Not Be Intimidated By New Russian Sanctions
MPs Say They Will Not Be Intimidated By New Russian Sanctions
Foreign affairs
Mark Francois: I Hope Trump Will Now See Putin For The Murderous Tyrant He Is
Mark Francois: I Hope Trump Will Now See Putin For The Murderous Tyrant He Is
Defence
Space Is A Growing Battlefield. Can The UK Lead The Way?
Space Is A Growing Battlefield. Can The UK Lead The Way?
Defence
Council Leaders Say Reform's Cost Cutting Plans Are Detached From Reality
Council Leaders Say Reform's Cost Cutting Plans Are Detached From Reality
Communities
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The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
Health
The Secret Social Worker: 'It Feels Relentless And The Gaps Are Just Too Big For Us To Fill'
A mental health social worker takes us through a typical day in the job, from disappointing patients to dealing with abuse and threats
How to resolve the modern care dilemma: drop the obsession with GDP
Health
By Miriam Cates
How to resolve the modern care dilemma: drop the obsession with GDP
Resolving the modern care dilemma means putting family at the heart of the economy, writes Miriam Cates. But the challenges to implementing this conservative plan for care come from all sides – including the ‘ultra-online right’
Stephen Kinnock: 'I have a really personal understanding of what people are going through'
Health
By Sienna Rodgers
Stephen Kinnock: 'I have a really personal understanding of what people are going through'
Stephen Kinnock is responsible for tackling one of the biggest challenges the government faces: social care. The health minister talks to Sienna Rodgers about charging reforms, professionalising the workforce and his family’s experiences with care
Health & Care news
The burden of hospital parking charges on carers
Health
By Julie Cooper
The burden of hospital parking charges on carers
Ahead of the second reading of her Hospital Care Parking Charges Bill this Friday, Julie Cooper MP says for many carers car parking charges are a real financial burden
Partner content
Health
By Alzheimer’s Society
Chancellor announces local government business rate retention
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has today announced that local councils will have the power to set their own business rates and spend the money raised.
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Health
By Alzheimer’s Society
CQC finds significant variation in quality and safety across health and social care
The Care Quality Commission has today (Thursday 15 October) published its annual analysis of the quality of health and adult social care in England.
Scrap the ‘cruel punishment’ of hospital parking charges for carers – Carers Trust Partner content
Health
By Carers Trust
Scrap the ‘cruel punishment’ of hospital parking charges for carers – Carers Trust
Ahead of Friday’s vote, leading charity Carers Trust urges MPs to relieve carers from the burden of hospital car parking charges by voting in favour of the Hospital Parking Charges Bill. 
Duchess of Cambridge backs children’s charity Chance UK Partner content
Health
By Chance UK
Duchess of Cambridge backs children’s charity Chance UK
The Duchess of Cambridge yesterday showed her support for children’s charity, Chance UK, at an event in Islington. 
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Health
By Scope
Four things we’ll say to MPs on the Welfare Reform and Work Bill
This afternoon, Scope is giving oral evidence to a committee scrutinising the Welfare Reform and Work Bill. It aims to achieve full employment in the economy and reforms a number of working age benefits that will impact on the lives of disabled people.
Partner content
Health
By Cardiac Risk in the Young
Extend free cardiac screening to prevent young deaths – leading charity
Ahead of todays debate, Cardiac Risk in the Young supports Mims Davies MP call for free cardiac screening for all children at 14 to bring down the numbers dying from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome.
Extend free cardiac screening to prevent child deaths
Health
By Mims Davies MP
Extend free cardiac screening to prevent child deaths
Conservative MP Mims Davies calls for free cardiac screening for all children at 14 and over to bring down the numbers dying from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome. 
Crucial to keep funding research into malaria and tropical diseases
Health
By Jeremy Lefroy
Crucial to keep funding research into malaria and tropical diseases
Conservative MP Jeremy Lefroy writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on: 'Work of the UK in tackling malaria and neglected tropical diseases'.
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Health
By Carers Trust
Barbara Keeley MP to launch new guide for young and young adult carers
Barbara Keeley MP will officially launch a new guide to develop awareness of young and young adult carers needs amongst mental health professionals in Parliament today (Monday 26 October).
Concern over NHS £30bn funding gap is increasing, top charity warns Partner content
Health
By Independent Age
Concern over NHS £30bn funding gap is increasing, top charity warns
Andy Kaye of Independent Age warns that 2020 will see a £4.3bn funding gap in adult social care unless something is done in the next spending review.
“A destructive vicious circle”: Damning Age UK report highlights crisis in health and social care for older people Partner content
Health
By Age UK
“A destructive vicious circle”: Damning Age UK report highlights crisis in health and social care for older people
A damning report by charity Age UK finds that the health and care system for older people in England is under severe stress and is underperforming, leading to higher costs, poorer health outcomes and worse patient and service user experience.
Partner content
Health
By Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Online housing resource launched to help reduce health inequalities
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is launching today an online resource, supported by Public Health England (PHE), that aims to inform Environmental Health Practitioners and local authorities on the impact that housing conditions can have on physical and mental health, with the objective to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
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Health
By National Audit Office
The management of adult diabetes services in the NHS: progress review
Progress has been made in reducing the additional risk of death for people with diabetes and the additional risk of diabetes-related complications has been stable or has reduced for most complications, according to todays report from the National Audit Office. However, there are still 22,000 people estimated to be dying each year from diabetes-related causes that could potentially be avoided.
Councils implementation of Care Act 'inadequate', Shadow Minister warns Partner content
Health
By Carers Trust
Councils implementation of Care Act 'inadequate', Shadow Minister warns
Councils need more help to support carers, according to the Shadow Minister for Older People, Barbara Keeley.
Partner content
Health
By Slimming World
Mindfulness report highlights link between mental and physical wellbeing
Slimming World welcomes report on mindfulness and calls on government to invest in further understanding of the links between obesity, mental health and wellbeing, as well as establishing a national training standard for all health professionals to sensitively raise the issue of obesity and weight management.
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By Mind
Stop sanctions if you’re serious about improving welfare-to-work support, says Mind
The Work and Pensions Select Committee have published a report on welfare-to-work support.
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Health
By Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
Boris Johnson backs London Health and Wellbeing Week
London Mayor Boris Johnson says he is delighted that firms in the capital have joined forces for a health and wellbeing week which begins today (Monday 19 October).
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Health
By WaterAid
Global Handwashing Day 2015
Celebrations have taken place around the world for Global Handwashing Day. Here's a roundup of the highlights.
Government must make childcare available outside of school hours
Health
By Baroness Pinnock
Government must make childcare available outside of school hours
Liberal Democrat House of Lords Spokesperson for Children, Baroness Pinnock reflects on the passage of the Childcare Bill through the House of Lords this week.
British children are starving during school holidays
Health
By Ruth Smeeth
British children are starving during school holidays
Labour MP, Ruth Smeeth, calls for the Government to tackle child food poverty during school holidays
Partner content
Health
By Medical Defence Union
Get on the patient’s wavelength to avoid complaints – DDU advises
Dental professionals should have an open and honest dialogue with patients about what can realistically be achieved by dental treatment to avoid mismatched expectations and resultant complaints, the Dental Defence Union (DDU) said today.
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Health
By Carers Trust
LGA Spending Review submission reveals care services at risk of closing
Responding to the publication of the Local Government Associations 2015 Spending Review submission, Dr Moira Fraser, Director of Policy and Research at Carers Trust, said:
Leading charity warns Jeremy Hunt over diabetes care Partner content
Health
By InDependent Diabetes Trust
Leading charity warns Jeremy Hunt over diabetes care
The Independent Diabetes Trust (IDDT), an independent charity for people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, is very concerned at the level of care received by adults and children with diabetes within the NHS. 
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Illicit Trade: The Growing Crime in the UK
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Thames Pavillion, House of Commons
Illicit Trade: The Growing Crime in the UK
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
2025
Surveyor's House, 12 Great George Street, SW1P 3AD
Journey to Safety: Combatting Disability Hate Crime on Public Transport
Net Zero Week 2025
2025
Virtual
Net Zero Week 2025