The NHS is desperate to cut beds and the time people stay in them. But many frail old patients must remain on the wards because there is no suitable care for them at home. In the second of three reports from Birmingham's busy Heartlands hospital, Amelia Gentleman spends a day in the packed elderly care unit

The chief executive of disability charity Scope tells Amelia Gentleman that the government's not listening

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Disability charities tell government that new medical test to assess eligibility for benefit will lead to vulnerable claimants losing out

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BUNGLED rulings by the private firm deciding whether benefit claimants are fit to work are costing taxpayers s50million, we can […]
Poor judgment lies at the heart of Prime Minister David Cameron’s crisis over the Murdoch empire. For more than three […]
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The UK’s first memorial to the one million disabled people who were persecuted, sterilised or killed by Nazi Germany has […]
By Debbie Jolly from our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC condemns the outrageous comments made by Phillip Davies Conservative […]

Andrea Hill, the chief executive who led Suffolk County Council's ambitious 'big society' plans to outsource all of its services has left the council just months after programme launch

Politicians and interviewers are locked in a pantomime. For sanity's sake, we must intervene
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Former Children’s Laureate and occasional teacher Michael Rosen manned a picket line on Thursday and explained why he backed the […]

Liam Byrne insists leaked letter from Eric Pickles office shows ministers 'haven't been straight with the House of Commons'
This is the full text of the leaked letter expressing concerns over the Government’s welfare reform plans Matthew Style Private […]

The growing bitterness between Labour and the unions demands a radical rethink of their relationship
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