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Social media firms must share the burden with the health service as it battles mental health issues in young people, the head of NHS England has said.

Setting out the health service’s key priorities for the future as it marks its 70th year, Simon Stevens, the body’s chief executive, warned of a “double epidemic affecting our children” that also included obesity.

Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients are being wrongly accused of fraudulently claiming free prescriptions and are being threatened with fines.

Data released under the Freedom of Information Act shows that 1,052,430 penalty notices were issued to patients in England in 2017 – about double the level in the previous year.

An ‘inadequate’ council has been slammed by Ofsted in a monitoring visit which found a “significant number of unallocated child in need cases” that senior management was not aware of.

Inspectors also found poor social work practice due to workforce turbulence in the ‘inadequate’ authority.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has written some guidance about assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers and would like to hear your thoughts it.

Innovative nursing model cuts bureaucracy and gives nurses more freedom and time with clients

On Saturday 6th May a small team from Southwark Carers took part in the Carers Thames Walk 2017.

Growing numbers of pensioners are caring for loved ones and becoming ill themselves doing so, a worrying new report reveals.

The sense of disappointment bordering on despair about the autumn statement’s silence on social care is palpable throughout local government and the social care sector. The chorus of support for action was impressive and unprecedented, unifying many politicians of all parties, NHS leaders, royal medical colleges, the health select committee, independent thinktanks and the Care Quality Commission, as well as those who might be regarded as the “usual suspects”.

The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over controversial proposals to allow councils to request exemptions from statutory social care duties.

Fewer than half of councils are still providing a meals on wheels service after six years of spending cuts, new figures have revealed.