Wearing only a flower-patterned bikini and flip flops, the young Thai woman politely explained the charge would be £60 for a half-hour massage. The exchange might be typical of ones which take place every night and day in the city’s saunas. But this was happening in a smart tenement flat on Leith Walk.
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HSE ambulance staff in Cork and Kerry have called for a national ballot on industrial action, following weekend claims that the Health Service Executive is trying to privatise the country’s ambulance service.
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A senior nurse who was caught watching porn in the residents’ lounge of a Scottish care home was yesterday struck off. The Nursing and Midwifery Council found Jessie MacPhee, 42, guilty of sleeping on the job as well as five counts of abusing colleagues and one of improperly storing medicine.
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Nursing unions have called off a planned escalation of industrial action, which was to have involved two-hour work stoppages at all health facilities. The Health Service Executive, the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, have welcomed the decision.
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A council lost nearly one in five of its social workers from its child-protection section last year, it has emerged. Wrexham council says 10 people left their posts in 2006-07, representing a 17.5% turnover rate.
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Britain is one of the worst countries in the developed world in which to be a child, the Children’s Commissioner has said. Sir Al Aynsley-Green warned of a “crisis at the heart of our society” in the way children are treated by adults.
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A Stockton care home owner accused of the manslaughter of an elderly mental patient allowed a single carer to look after 18 residents despite being told seven years earlier that two staff should work the night shift, a court has heard.
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Councillors will be asked next week to consider the impact on the city’s Adult Social Services if plans for a unitary Norwich City Council are given the go ahead.
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The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced that it is again running its practitioner-led research programme and making funding available for up to 100 research projects.
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Campaigners have upped the pressure on ministers to tackle hugely disproportionate detention rates within the mental health system. A letter in the Times, signed by a number of leading figures says the 1983 law that allows doctors to “section” people has led to “a crisis in black mental health.”
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