The government should do more to monitor the finances of England's care home companies if another crisis like Southern Cross is to be avoided, MPs say.

A charity is offering women free emergency contraception in the post as Christmas approaches

A woman was wrongly kept from seeing her dying mother in a Leeds care home, the Local Government Ombudsman finds.

A health scheme, piloted in Cornwall, is to be rolled-out across the UK in the hope of saving money and improving patient care.

Scientists develop a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly strain of the Ebola virus.

The entrepreneur behind HC-One which took over running a third of Southern Cross homes said the crisis over elderly care was serious.

Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck had the largest norovirus outbreak ever recorded at a restaurant, according to a new academic report.