The NHS England psychiatric care system is "collapsing" under the weight of "unsafe" mixed gender care spaces, inadequate safeguarding protections and bed shortages, according to former and current ...

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The NHS has long been criticised for its performance on safeguarding children - faced with competing priorities, health professionals have been accused of allowing child protection to slip down the ...

Healthcare campaigners are warning of a potential risk to children’s welfare posed by the NHS England merger and cuts to integrated care boards (ICBs). Under the reforms, neighbourhood health services ...

NHS training in safeguarding is being squeezed by requirements to train staff in identifying adults at risk of becoming terrorists, it has been claimed. Safeguarding training for NHS staff is being ...

Child safeguarding is an ‘afterthought’ in the government’s NHS reforms, according to paediatricians who have warned the safety of children is under threat. Child safeguarding is an ‘afterthought’ in ...

A nurse with vast experience in NHS leadership has been appointed to a senior position at a hospice for children in the north of England. Professor Catherine Randall, who has held senior nursing ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NHS England and NHS Improvement have begun deploying a secure digital ID card solution from Yoti that puts employees’ NHS ID cards on their phone. The contactless ID app can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NHS cuts to key safety roles could trigger more abuse and child deaths, such as those of Baby P and Victoria Climbié, doctors and ...