Cancer Cases Continue To Rise
A new report from the National Cancer Registry shows the number of new diagnoses of the disease continues to increase. The report says most of the increase is due to Ireland’s aging population.
Read MoreA new report from the National Cancer Registry shows the number of new diagnoses of the disease continues to increase. The report says most of the increase is due to Ireland’s aging population.
Read MoreOver thirteen million pounds was spent employing temporary nurses in Northern Ireland last year because of a shortage of trained staff, the Department of Health has said. The Royal Hospital in Belfast was the largest user of the agency staff, an official report said.
Read MoreThe Health Service Executive is to review the files of more than 3,000 breast cancer patients who attended the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise over a four year period. 3000 mammograms and 2500 breast ultrasounds will be re-examined.
Read MoreAlmost 300,000 people in Ireland live in consistent poverty according to the latest report from the Combat Poverty Agency. The 2006 annual report also claims that 10% of Irish children are living in poverty.
Read MoreCare services have been accused of systematic failures following the death of a 10-year-old Bristol child who suffered years of chronic neglect. Professionals “missed opportunities” to intervene before the girl had an epileptic fit and fell in a bath of scalding water, a child safety panel concluded.
{mosimage}Bristol’s Safeguarding Children Board condemned health, education and social care services for failing to communicate and underestimating neglect in the family. A catalogue of physical, racial and drug abuse in the family, over a 14-year period, had been collated by authorities. But a lack of “critical analysis” prevented workers recognising chronic neglect suffered by the girl and her seven siblings.
The board, led by police, health and children’s organisations, concluded: “Professionals failed to gauge the level of actual neglect being experienced by the children and consequently the view held by professionals was that the threshold for child protection intervention was not met.
“There were missed opportunities for professionals to intervene in the early years, which could have focused upon parenting support. There was a lack of critical analysis of known information with incidents being treated discretely in isolation from each other, which contributed to an underestimate of the amount of neglect that the children in the family were experiencing.”
Read MoreA £690,000 funding boost for communities in St Helens will help local people to lead more physically and mentally fit lifestyles. The funding is the St. Helens share of Target: Well-being, managed by Groundwork, which is an £8.9m major new regional programme awarded by the Big Lottery Fund.
Read MoreA number of cancer patients denied a new drug by the NHS may get free treatment as part of a clinical trial taking place in Manchester. The drug Sutent can in some cases prolong the lives of patients with kidney cancer.
Read MoreFour people have been charged with ill treatment or neglect of residents at a Gloucester residential home which has been under investigation for more than two years. They are all due to face Gloucester Magistrates later this month, together with a representative of the company which runs the home.
Read MoreSmokers are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia as nonsmokers, doctors have warned. More than 700,000 Brits have dementia – of whom two thirds have Alzheimer’s. But by 2025, that number is set to rise to more than a million.
Read MoreLocal authorities have achieved their target of enabling more than 60,000 new users to benefit from telecare in the last financial year using the first part of the two year Preventative Technology (PT) grant.
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