The Royal College of Physicians has called for a big increase in the number of doctors in England who specialise in hearing and balance problems. The RCP says half of people suffer the disorders at some time, but can wait years to see a specialist and often remain undiagnosed and poorly managed.
Plans to improve care for people with epilepsy in Wales have been announced in a strategy the assembly government believes is the UK's first of its kind. Measures to reduce the incidence of epilepsy, help people to self-manage their condition and ensure prompt diagnosis and treatment are included.
Doctors hope to use the body's own nerves to bridge the gap in the spinal cord left by paralysing injuries. Dr John Martin, from Columbia University, New York, took a nerve leaving the spine just above an injury, and reattached it below.
In its third annual report to Parliament on the state of social care, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) explores the experiences of people not deemed eligible for social care services.
The Every Disabled Child Matters campaign has added its voice to national charity Contact a Family's call on government to give families with disabled children a winter fuel allowance, which would match that currently paid to pensioners.
Thank you all for being here and thanks also to the Guardian Public Services Summit for their kind invitation to speak today. As you know, the theme of this year's Summit is how relationships are altering, and dynamics are changing, in the delivery of public services. Today's public service providers are returning to that theme again and again.