Month: March 2019

‘It was the most traumatic, stressful moment of my life’, says partygoer caught up in incident Via: Cookstown deaths: Police name three teenagers killed at St Patrick's Day disco

Cutting-edge therapies could be denied as specialists quit health service Via: Cancer patients may suffer because of NHS consultant shortage, report warns

‘There are a number of people participating in survival sex so they can feed their families or prevent loan sharks with baseball bats coming round to enforce debts,’ says Frank Field Via: Women doing sex work to survive due to roll-out of universal credit, MPs fear

At its best, social work can break cycles of crisis, and help people change their lives and communitiesGuardian Jobs: see the latest vacancies in social care Too often, social services are designed as rotating doors. They focus on individuals in crisis who, when the symptoms of the emergency have eased, Read more…

Study says women aged 50-69 most likely to benefit, while those aged 70-79 will gain leastDeath rates from breast cancer are falling faster in Britain than in any other of the six most populous countries in Europe, research shows.The rate of death from the disease has fallen by 17.7% since Read more…

UK ‘risks losing some of our brightest minds to other countries’, campaigners say Via: Academics doing 'life-changing' research could lose EU funding in no-deal Brexit, universities warn