Daniel Siegel: A System's View of Disintegration & Integration (He's still cute, he's still brilliant, he speaks in easy-to-remember aphorisms and he's still heartful. What's not to like?) "Integration is the linking of differentiated parts. The concept is useful for ass...

The government will today come under pressure to forge a new compensation deal for thousands of people with haemophilia who were given blood tainted with HIV and hepatitis C, as a long-awaited report from an independent inquiry into the scandal is published. More than a quarter of those infected as ...

Tens of thousands of people with autism have been repeatedly let down by the social care and health system while Labour has been in power, a minister has admitted. In a damning indictment, Phil Hope, the care services minister, said there was "no doubt" that, despite years of campaigning by parents ...

 They’re back!!!. After a brief intermission to allow the Government Accounting Office to deal with challenges to contract awards, the Gov ernment is again gearing up for the 50 state roll out of the Recovery Audit Contract Program where contingent fee contractors get to rummage through the ...

Thousands of public sector workers, hospital visitors and leisure centre users face having to eat pies that are missing half the pastry and having to ask specifically for the salt because of a healthy eating initiative being drawn up by the government. Limits on fizzy drinks, crisps, savoury snacks ...

An NHS hospital boss criticised the new computerised medical records system today, saying it had cost his trust an extra £10m and meant fewer patients could be seen. Andrew Way, chief executive of Hampstead's Royal Free hospital, in north-west London, said his staff were "incredibly disappointed" w...

Justice is not time limited. It is an absolute. When a grievous wrong is done, those who have suffered need respect and help throughout their lives, not just while the rest of us can be bothered to pay attention. Yet most forget too easily, and so one wrong is followed by another. This is what has h...

It is hard not to applaud the Chinese for their decision to execute officials for the contamination of milk sold domestically and abroad, even for those generally opposed to the death penalty. Unfortunately, the Chinese may have been motivated more by the impact of the unfavorable publicity than rea...

Children aged under 15 should never be given alcohol, even in small quantities, England's chief medical officer (CMO) has advised parents. Sir Liam Donaldson said childhood should be an "alcohol-free time", as ministers publish draft guidance on the issue for the first time. He told BB...

I watched President-Elect Obama's speech from the concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Boy, what a downer. All that talk about crisis and lost jobs and war, about enormous tasks, long roads and steep climbs and hard work,......