Perthshire Residents Win Retirement Home Row
A group of Perthshire residents have won the right to stay in their retirement homes.
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A group of Perthshire residents have won the right to stay in their retirement homes.
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A MEAN-MINDED council have cut a £2-a-week payment for people with learning difficulties – after blowing thousands of pounds on globetrotting junkets.
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Hospitals and other health services around the country are facing the threat of major disruption as up to 35,000 angry staff, including frontline workers, ballot on industrial action.
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A terminally ill woman who was deported from Britain while undergoing treatment for cancer has died, it was reported today.
A WOMAN who is paralysed from the neck down fears she will be forced to live in a nursing home because of funding cutbacks in her care.
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A CALLOUS care worker stole £2,000 from a vulnerable 72-year-old resident who put his trust in her.
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Union leaders were locked in pay talks today aimed at facing down attempts to impose a pay cap on council workers, after warning of industrial unrest if their 6% claim is not met.
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Members of the public are being urged to come out on the streets to express anger at the state of the health service.
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THE boss of a care home for disabled people who stole £6,000 from a vulnerable resident yesterday escaped a jail sentence.
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Only a tiny minority of drug trials on children have an independent safety monitoring committee to pick up potentially dangerous side-effects, a study has revealed.
Researchers from Nottingham University found that under 2% of the 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and 2002 had such committees of independent experts who would scrutinise data and warn, if necessary, that it was not safe to carry on.
Among the 2%, six trials had to be stopped early because of toxic effects on the child patients.
“We were very surprised by the low level of trials that had independent safety monitoring committees and are urging pharmaceutical companies to include these in all future trials involving children,” said Dr Helen Sammons, associate professor of child health at Nottingham and lead author of the paper, published in the child health journal Acta Paediatrica.
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