For cancer services to get back on track, patients and staff working must be tested regularly for COVID-19, whether they have COVID-19 symptoms or not. 

Scores of MPs and former ministers have urged the prime minister to tackle a backlog in NHS cancer care that threatens to lead to thousands of early deaths over the next decade.More than 100 MPs have

Figures suggest one in five adults in Britain are experiencing depressive symptoms.

Calls to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline were up 80% in June, says the charity Refuge.

Governments must act now to stop 265 million starving, warns World Food Programme boss

Two separate studies raise fears that millions of children, particularly in state schools, have done almost no work at all

Psychiatrists say services could be overwhelmed by ‘tsunami’ of sickness triggered by crisis

Research shines a light on the reasons why the Government has been keen to lift lockdown, in spite of experts claiming it happened too soon

Cancelled care and patients' fears about going to hospital mean eye conditions going untreated, specialists say.

End of coronavirus job and income support expected to trigger 61% rise in food bank use

Many charities across the region have been forced to adapt the way they provide support to people with mental health issues within a matter of hours or days

Charity’s support used over half a million times during lockdown, people with dementia worst hit in terms of deaths and thousands struggling with mental health decline.

While the pandemic worsened mental health for many ages 18-24, there's help out there to support those who need it.

The ripple effects from COVID-19 lockdowns could be more deadly for young children than the actual virus

Charity urges government to commit to recovery plan for children suffering abuse

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty – deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – a new UN study has

Child protection referrals will rise now schools are back, police chiefs tell BBC Newsnight.

It is estimated that around 8,600 women are living with undetected breast cancer in the UK after screening services were paused.

Report warns of a cascade of job losses as coronavirus furlough scheme winds down

It comes amid concerns about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health.

The charity estimates 33,000 Britons have had their cancer treatments postponed as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.

Ofsted chief reveals higher baby deaths in lockdown and calls for action as next one begins.

In the first 48 hours after news of lockdown emerged, one suicide prevention helpline saw a rise in calls of almost a third from the previous weekend.

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A heart charity is urging people not to delay checks or treatment during the second wave.

The number of people waiting more than a year to start non-coronavirus hospital treatment in September was the highest of any month since 2008, new data reveals.

The numbers "always or often" lonely in the pandemic reached a new high point as winter approaches.

Recent literature highlights a possible increase in child abuse during the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic.1 We report a marked increase in the incidence of abusive head trauma (AHT) at our...

The "unprecedented need" for help during the pandemic seen by a church in Burnley.