DONATIONS of knitted and crocheted dolls are being sought by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. The dolls will be used to help ease the anxieties of hospital patients with dementia. Pauline Swales, the ...

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust hopes to ease anxiety in patients with dementia by giving them something to hold. The trust has asked knitters and crocheters to make dolls in any pa ...

The government will implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), it announced today. It will consult on introducing the LPS, alongside a ...

The NHS has been told to pause its forthcoming puberty blocker trial by campaign groups who warn safeguards promised after the Cass review are not strong enough. It is the first trial of the medical ...

Severely disabled people could be neglected or harmed if the government succeeds in overturning legal protections for them, charities have warned. The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments this ...