One In Ten Scottish Hospital Patients ‘Suffering Infection’
Almost one in ten patients in Scottish hospitals is suffering from an infection such as MRSA, a survey suggested yesterday.
Read MoreAlmost one in ten patients in Scottish hospitals is suffering from an infection such as MRSA, a survey suggested yesterday.
Read MoreA callous care worker at an old folks’ home took a photo of a 91-year-old patient’s private parts to show her boyfriend.
Read MoreThe NHS 24 helpline is to be sued for £200,000 by the family of an Aberdeen schoolgirl who died of meningitis.
Read MoreAlmost half of homeless parents in Northern Ireland have been forced to go without food at some point in order to feed their children. And almost two-thirds of the homeless population are eating less than three good meals a day.
Read MoreVoluntary and community groups have been invited to apply for a share of a £15 million fund being provided to help them modernise. Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie said the aim of the Modernisation Fund was to help the voluntary sector prepare itself for the future.
Read MoreBack-pay claims for thousands of under-paid women workers could land Cardiff council with a bill of up to £30m. The authority could even be forced to delay the opening of the city’s new central library and other major projects if pleas to the Welsh Assembly Government to borrow money to meet the huge bill fall on deaf ears.
Read MoreChildren and young people in the capital are being forgotten and failed, because the Government has failed to make sexual exploitation a policing priority, failed to ensure new legislation is used to bring child abusers to justice and failed to provide long term funding for services.
{mosimage}Despite a shocking Barnardo’s report published two years ago warning of the dangers to 1000 of London’s most vulnerable youngsters, their situation has barely improved. In a new report, ‘Forgotten and Failed’, Barnardo’s examines what has happened to protect children in the capital from sexual exploitation since the 2005 report.
Barnardo’s is working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and Local Authorities throughout London, but despite best efforts only three specialist services exist in the whole of the capital.
And despite the fact that the Sexual Offences Act of 2003 introduced three new offences specifically designed to prosecute adults who sexually exploit children and young people, the situation does not appear to have improved significantly.
According to the Government’s own figures, despite 425 recorded offences of ‘sexual grooming’, there were no prosecutions recorded in the whole of England and Wales, and only 35 prosecutions for ‘abusing children by prostitution’ between 2003 and the end of 2005 – it would seem that the new legislation has just not succeeded in bring more perpetrators to justice.
Read More‘Nurses in England have earned the right to a fair pay deal,’ insists the Royal College of Nursing. Pressure has increased for English nurses to be given their pay award in full after politicians in Northern Ireland opted to give their nurses the entire 2.5%.
Read MoreNew evidence published on bmj.com today confirms that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should not be prescribed to older women who are many years past menopause to help prevent chronic conditions such as heart disease.
Read MoreA hearing into the conduct of a Registered Social Worker from Taunton will be held from 17 to 19 July 2007 by the social care workforce regulator for England, the General Social Care Council (GSCC).
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