Health & Social Care

Mental health first aid can save lives and support better mental wellbeing, but it’s not just a case of training staff and hoping for the best. Kath Cheer and Paul Horsman advise on building structures that help mental health first aiders to support their colleagues

Staff welcome weekly window for healthy activities agreed in deal with civil service unions

Internal inquiry underway after drugs found in secure area of department

The National Health Service is sitting on a goldmine of patient information, but identifying how best to tap its rich seams is very much a work in progress. SA Mathieson reports. Photography by Paul Heartfield

NHS bosses say Indian doctors are being denied visas to work in the UK because of ‘hostile environment’

Report by former health minister comes as Jeremy Hunt’s call for a long-term settlement for the NHS gains traction

MPs criticise department for not knowing where to spend £7bn pump-priming cashpot

ONS outlines work streams to expand measurements of loneliness and wellbeing inequality

Health department propping up the figures on ethnic diversity at senior levels, IfG analysis finds

Possibility of ten-year funding deal, hinted at in session with MPs, described as “the best possible Easter present for the health and social care system”

Unprecedented report makes demands of six departments and calls for better oversight to ‘prevent policy from working at cross-purposes’

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

Damning report finds no evidence of department-driven workforce planning for sector since Gordon Brown was prime minister

New data shows dip in proportion of staff who went 12 months without taking time off because of ill health

Official statistics body launches audit of inequalities data and signals desire to work closely with rest of government and civil society

Entire ministerial team at the central Whitehall department changes as Theresa May completes wide-ranging government reshuffle

Prime minister announces rebranded Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care 

At the end of 2017, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without

Harlow Council planners approve blueprint for science campus

Former civil service head raises concerns about increasing demand pressures across the health service

Health and education departments first to benefit from ‘confidence and supply’ agreement

DExEU minister reveals department has 32 trained mental health champions in wellbeing drive

But peer review finds HR qualms and suggests the organisation needs louder voice on air quality

Councils say green paper next year is "no substitute for extra funding next week"