Browsing: Care

Teun Toebes was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, “the closed ward”, where residents were locked inside.…

State health officials were so alarmed by a controversial federal government aged-care funding tool that they kept a log of hundreds of cases where vulnerable older…

Anita Bazell had never coped with the heat very well, her family said. So they were worried about her when temperatures across the UK soared to…

A group of trans activists from across Massachusetts brought their needles, hormone gels, pills and sharps containers to Boston on Wednesday to send a message to…

Disabled people are being blocked from travelling abroad by NHS care boards and local councils that refuse to let them use their care funding outside the…

Your article draws attention to a landmark review that describes the “care cliff” for young people leaving care at 18 leading to tragic outcomes (‘He was…

I work as a renal physician, including on a transplant ward, so I will have had many of the same experiences as Zubir Ahmed, but I…

Doctors have agreed the world’s first universal definition of a heart attack, paving the way for millions of women to finally receive better treatment after decades…

Complaints about autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder services in England have more than tripled in five years, official figures show, with the NHS ombudsman warning…

As a doctor, I have spent much of my professional life caring for people at some of the most vulnerable moments they will ever face. I…