NHS Shake-Up To Axe Hospital Services
Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the NHS.
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Tributes Paid To Dementia Carers
More money is to be made available for the community and voluntary sector to go towards advocacy and dementia carers’ support services, the Province’s Health Minister has revealed.
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Ministers Pledge £77m For Stroke Survivors
A new deal for 300,000 disabled survivors of a life-threatening stroke was put in place today. Health ministers handed over £77m from the NHS budget to support the rehabilitation of survivors by local authority social services in England.
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Nurse Sentenced For Dementia Patient Abuse
A nurse who assaulted a dementia patient has been ordered to carry out 150 hours of community service.
Senior sister Agnes Lawrence, 53, from Croftfoot in Glasgow, abused the 76-year-old man at Rowantree Nursing Home in Rutherglen in January 2007.
She grabbed his hair, pulled him to the floor and banged his head off a door. Glasgow Sheriff Court was told that Lawrence attacked the frail pensioner when he became aggressive after being asked to sit down for dinner.
The abuse was witnessed by care assistant Nicola Stein, who described it as “like something outside a pub”.
She later reported Lawrence to managers at the care home.
Passing sentencing, Sheriff Daniel Convery said: “The offence of which you were convicted is a serious one which involved substantial abuse of a vulnerable patient in your professional care.”
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World Experts Gather For Cancer Conference
The prevention, treatment and care of cancer will come under the spotlight at a major health conference in Dublin today.
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No Room At Detention Centre For Boy, 15
A 15 -year-old boy arrested in connection with a gun and petrol bomb attack on a home in Dublin in March was today remanded on bail after a court heard that a detention centre did not have a space to hold him.
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New Standards To Place Heavy Burden On Nursing Homes
Age Action Ireland is warning that a large number of nursing homes around the country will need to make extensive improvements in order to comply with new regulations.
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End Of Child Poverty Is Still Aim, Says Purnell
Labour is making the fight against child poverty a central aim because the party feels “outrage” at the waste of lives, unlike the Tories who pay “lip service” to the government’s commitments, a senior cabinet minister said yesterday.
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Minister Seeks More Help For Dyslexic Pupils
The government has ordered a review of how schools should educate the country’s estimated 300,000 dyslexic children, after admitting that many are being left to flounder without tailored teaching.
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Abuse As A Child ‘Makes Adults More Likely To Commit Sucide’
Survivors of child abuse may be more likely to kill themselves as adults because their early experiences change the way a critical gene works in the brain, according to new research that could shed light on the biology of suicide.
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