HEALTH

Why is the quality of UK care homes getting worse?

Why is the quality of UK care homes getting worse?

The proportion of care homes rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement” increased in one in five local authority areas in 2017. According to new analysis by Independent Age, the older people’s chari ...
Hunt: ‘we need to do better on social care’

Hunt: ‘we need to do better on social care’

On 20th March, 2018, the recently appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, made a speech that acknowledged the need ‘to do better on social care’. Social car ...
Living with pulmonary hypertension

Living with pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a very rare condition, affecting just 7,000 out of 64 million people in the UK. However, it is thought that more people have the condition and haven’t been diagnosed. A ...