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Theresa May has pledged to bring forward a long-term funding plan for the NHS in response to growing concerns that key health services are being overwhelmed by rising demand.

This short film supports the carers toolkit and gives an understanding of the experiences and needs of carers of people in secure mental health hospitals. It outlines people’s journeys prior to their loved one coming into the secure hospital and identifies ways that they can be involved and supported.

Carefreebreaks provides short breaks for unpaid carers in hotels and holiday cottages provided free-of-charge by owners during the low season.

In developed countries such as the UK we eat a greater variety of foodstuffs than ever before – but it doesn’t follow that we are well-nourished.

Last night (13 March), Southwark Council’s cabinet reaffirmed its commitment to bring its housing repairs service in house, in order to drive up standards and ensure a consistent approach to repairs for the benefit of tenants.

Young Vic Taking Part would like to invite you to Neighbours Known, Neighbours Unknown, a celebration of singing, community and togetherness, in collaboration with The Choir with No Name.

25% Londoners experience a diagnosable mental health condition in any given year. Three children in every classroom have problems with their mental health and one in six people over the age of 16 have a common mental disorder. Mental ill health now amounts to nearly half of all ill health among people under 65. But only one in four Londoners with mental health problems receives treatment.

NHS bosses are under fire for cutting back a team of doctors and nurses who provide mental health care to one of Britain’s largest groups of homeless people.

Camden NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in north London is giving the Focus Homeless Outreach team £219,866 less a year starting on 1 April, a leaked CCG document reveals. One of the team’s two psychiatrists and one of its six nurses will lose their jobs as a result.

The demand and complexity of cases is increasing at the same time that our council budgets are being reduced, write cabinet leads for children’s services in north-west England

Nearly two-thirds of doctors believe patient safety has deteriorated over the past year and nine out of 10 have experienced staff shortages, a survey of 1,500 NHS consultant physicians in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has revealed.