Prisons ‘ill-equipped to deal with rising dementia population’
Community Care
Prisons need better staff training and support from external agencies to effectively meet needs of growing number of inmates with dementia, says Mental Health Foundation study.
‘10,000 more GPs needed’ for NHS to cope with increasing workload
The Telegraph
Ten thousand more GPs are needed for the NHS to cope with its increasing workload and ensure patients are properly cared for out of hours, the head of the Royal College of GPs has said.
More than 1 in 10 providing unpaid care
BBC News
The number of unpaid carers in England and Wales has reached 5.8 million, a rise of 600,000 since 2001, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Dying man campaigns for right to be human guinea pig
The Telegraph
A man dying from motor neurone disease is campaigning for a change in the law so terminally ill people can volunteer to become human guinea pigs by taking unlicensed treatments.
RNLI named as most-mentioned charity in 2012
Civil Society
The British Red Cross has been knocked off the pole position for the most-mentioned charity in mainstream media, as a new report shows Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) scored the greatest amount of coverage in 2012.
The importance of genuine gratitude
Third Sector
In fundraising, it is sometimes too easy to fall into sales and marketing-speak and forget what makes the task really special.
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