All news by author: Nicola Small

The Lib Dems discovered that in the last four years health visitor numbers in England have been cut by 21% – from 6,931 to 5,473. MP Sarah Olney is calling for 'urgent action'

Campaigners are demanding a change in the law to make court records and judges' decisions freely available after facing ridiculous costs to read trial verdicts

Nearly 200 flood alerts and warnings remained in place, but Guy Fawkes Night revellers can hope to stay dry with no Met Office rain warnings for the first time in days

HC-One owns more than 275 care homes, where union bosses say 40% of staff are considering leaving because they don’t earn enough to live, with lowest-paid earning £10.47 an hour

Incidents from April 1 to August 31 include a woman whose ovary was mistakenly removed and another patient whose spinal surgery was carried out on the wrong side

A 13-year-old boy was told to leave a privately-run children’s home for being disruptive and was sent 198 miles away from his family to live in a static caravan park

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey, who lost both his cancers to cancer when he was young, said it is 'a scandal' that so many patients are waiting months to start treatment

The National Day Nurseries Association blamed a lack of funding as a whopping 216 nurseries in England had to shut in the 12 months to September, up from 144 in 2021/22

Extremists aim to 'capitalise' on comments made by Suella Braverman about immigration, that being discriminated against for being gay or a woman should not guarantee refugee status

Kids as young as four-years-old are bringing dangerous weapons like kitchen knives and scissors to school as activists warn of a 'spreading cancer' that police and teachers can't stop

Researchers at the University of Warwick were looking for ways to solve the labour shortage after The National Farmers' Union found two in five farmers have lost crops because there was no one to pick them

A health inspectors’ report found failings in the leadership at the trust where Alison Kelly went on to work after quitting her post at the Chester hospital in 2021

Researchers found medication that controls blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes can also help patients with certain auto-immune diseases such as Lupus and arthritis

The Wembley hat-trick hero has given a go-for-it personal message of support to the women’s team ahead of their bid to lift the trophy against Spain in the World Cup Final

The shortage of intravenous (IV) paracetamol is expected to continue until at least November and the Government blamed 'capacity constraints with a manufacturer'

Jessica Hodgkinson, 26, had a cardiac arrest seconds after her daughter Phoebe was born, but she never even had the chance to hold her little girl, which her family says could have been prevented but she was failed by staff at Chesterfield Hospital in Bristol

Weather warnings have been issued across Spain, France and Greece - and 16 cities in Italy - as Europe swelters under vicious heatwave fittingly named for a three-headed hound from Greek mythology

London Ambulance Service is the first ambulance service in the country to use virtual reality technology for safeguarding training, and will be used to help spot signs of sexual abuse and domestic violence

Oleg Ignatov is the senior Russia analyst at the International Crisis Group, an independent organisation that works to prevent wars

Veterans who undertook a year-long comedy course, sponsored by the NHS and aimed at helping them to express themselves, are now preparing to perform to an audience in London.

Nicola Nuttall, whose daughter Laura died five weeks ago, is calling on MPs to back an Early Day Motion in Laura’s memory calling for more funding to beat the disease

Temperatures reached 26.5C in Northolt, West London, this afternoon but Met Office's weather warning for heavy thunderstorms remain in place for Sunday with hail feared in places

Tony Hudgell was the son of birth parents Jody Simpson and Tony Smith, who inflicted such severe injuries on him - when he was just six weeks old - that his legs eventually had to be amputated

The worried community in Barnet, North London, worked together to provide the Canada geese a paddling pool in which to swim following the loss of the lake they usually visit

In March, 8,549 doctor vacancies in secondary care were reported in England, as data shows 13,400 UK-trained doctors practised abroad in 2020, where they get higher pay or a better work-life balance