Birmingham City Council has been forced to scrap plans to end care packages for 4,000 adults after the decision was condemned by a High Court judge.Read
The most far-reaching reforms of adult social care law in 60 years are needed to improve the lives of the most vulnerable citizens, the body which reviews laws in England and Wales has said.Read
A former manager of the hospital watchdog the Health Care Commission (HCC) has launched a blistering attack on its replacement regulator the Care Quality Commission (CQC).Read
The number deaths caused by appalling standards at Stafford Hospital was cut from a report to avoid a statistical debate, the former chairman of a health watchdog said.Read
A former health authority chief has told an inquiry that there were no alarm bells over Stafford Hospital prior to a damning report into serious failings of care there.
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A Birmingham hospital trust is making determined moves to improve patient safety after a series of deaths caused by medical errors. One of those is to appoint the former leader of a national patient safety watchdog, Lord Philip Hunt of Kings HeathRead
As Ministers slam the brakes on controversial plans to transform the NHS, a leading Birmingham GP urges them to rethink the proposals. Jonathan Walker reports.Read
Stafford Hospital constantly resisted requests for accurate information on how it was failing to meet targets to South Staffordshire Primary Care, an inquiry into appalling conditions at the hospital heard.Read
The West Midlands business community has been called on to back a multi-million-pound fundraising campaign to create a state-of-the-art Marie Curie hospice.Read