A mental health unit in Worcestershire is to close, it has been announced. The news that the Lea Castle centre in Kidderminster is to shut follows a meeting of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust earlier this week.
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Thousands of shops, restaurants and cafés will be forced to register their staff with a new child protection agency and have their criminal records checked if they employ children for weekend or summer holiday work.
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Out-of-hours provision in the NHS is now so complex that it is hard for patients to know who they should call and where to go, according to a report.
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A CAMPAIGN has been launched to try to protect workers from having to take time off because of mental health problems.
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More than a quarter of the UK’s student nurses dropped out of their courses in 2006, figures suggest.
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Less than half of NHS staff believe patient care is the top priority for trusts, an annual staff survey shows.
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The fast-expanding nursing business owned by one of Scotland’s leading female entrepreneurs has slipped into a loss after the NHS cut back on its use of agency nurses.
However, founder Ann Rushforth yesterday said her Dunbartonshire-based ScotNursing business was operating profitably again in its current financial year.
“The size of our nursing market is much smaller than it was a few years ago because the NHS is doing more and more in-house, although I would say that situation has now stabilised,” she said.
“But, at the same time, the domiciliary care side of the business is growing extremely fast, as is our occupational health business. We now provide health MOTs, dare I say it, the way BUPA does for company employees. This is beneficial to companies and the workers.
“The homecare part of business is, I would say, challenging but profitable. It seems to be what people want as an alternative to residential home care, particularly for the elderly and the severely disabled.”
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An experienced social care worker was stabbed to death yesterday while visiting a client at a “care in the community” home which has won praise from neighbours in a quiet city suburb.
Philip Ellison, 47 and married with three sons, died on a routine visit to the house in Fulwood, north Preston, which Lancashire county council rents to provide homes for people with long-term psychiatric problems.
Specially trained detectives this morning start questioning a 51-year-old man who was arrested at the house. Ellison, of Penwortham, Preston, was found in the two-storey property bleeding from a number of stab wounds and was taken to the nearby hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.
Neighbours in the cul-de-sac, Glebe Close, a housing association development in the grounds of a former hospital, said that three police vehicles had blocked off the house shortly before midday. Mark Rigby, 38, whose house overlooks the property said he was working on his computer and looked up to see another neighbour coming away from the house.
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Alan Johnson, the health secretary, appeared yesterday to have averted the threat of industrial action across the NHS in England with a pay offer for 1.2 million nurses and ancillary staff worth almost 8% over three years.
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Nurses and other NHS staff were yesterday offered a pay deal worth 8% over three years in one of the biggest recent public sector wage deals.
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