The government’s shake-up of GP out-of-hours care has been criticised after an inquiry into a woman’s death. Penny Campbell, 41, from Islington, north London, died of septicaemia in 2005, after consulting eight different doctors over the four-day Easter break.
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A nationally and internationally-renowned charity is set to help even more children with disabilities access life changing educational opportunities through an exciting new training venture.
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A Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) has decided the case of a social worker from Lincoln who was alleged to have breached the code of practice for social care workers by maintaining a grossly offensive website as well as possessing indecent photographs of children.
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The Church of Scotland Guild is probably the most radical part of the Kirk. No, don’t laugh. Despite the caricatures of harmless old ladies knitting and gossiping, records show the Guild has boycotted food from the old apartheid-ridden South Africa, supported people afflicted by Aids, paid for a worker with prostitutes in Edinburgh, helped with a refugee centre in Cairo and attacked the sex industry booths at the last football World Cup.
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Jim Murphy, Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, was at the SECC in Glasgow yesterday to hear the views of voluntary organisations on the future of welfare reform.
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The community and voluntary sector in the West is currently working closely with the Western Health and Social Services Board to host two major workshops this spring.
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Patients of a leading haemophilia consultant were used for early research into HIV and AIDS without being told they had the condition, it was claimed yesterday.
Nurses have voted in favour of accepting proposals to end their work-to-rule. The result of the ballot of over 35,000 members of the Irish Nurses Organisation was 54% in favour and 46% against.
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Ireland has been criticised in an Amnesty International report for a lack of child trafficking legislation and inadequate treatment for mentally ill children.
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Police have issued warnings to parents following the fourth in a series of approaches to children this month. In two of the incidents, strangers tried to abduct children. In a third, a man thought to be in his 40s, asked a 14-year-old girl for sex.
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