A hospital criticised for its “chaotic and despicable” care of three elderly patients had been deficient for a number of years, a report says. Coroner John Pollard attacked Tameside General Hospital following inquests into the deaths of three patients.
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Buckinghamshire County Council has drawn up an action plan for implementing recommendations made in the recent Joint Area Review report. The JAR inspection took place between last July and September, and was linked to the contemporaneous Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA).
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Sick leave among council workers is higher in Northern Ireland than in England and the civil service, according to the Audit Office. In the past year, absenteeism among staff cost £14m in lost productivity.
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One child in 25 at secondary school in England has taken cocaine, heroin or another class A drug, according to a report commissioned by the Department of Health. The figures would mean 128,000 pupils aged 11 to 15 have been involved with the drugs.
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Councillors have been told that more specialist social workers are required if weaknesses identified in child protection services in the Scottish Borders are to be addressed. But any shortcomings are more than outweighed by strengths, according to a glowing report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIe).
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Around 1,700 jobs are to be cut from Ulster’s health service as part of a massive shake-up of the way it is run – more than double the original estimate.
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Britain’s senior judge gave warning last night that the Ministry of Justice announced yesterday risks “recurrent crisis”, with the judiciary under pressure to tailor sentences to the number of prison spaces.
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Voluntary organisations across Fife will bear the full brunt of Council cost-cutting with funding awards slashed in a bid to save £250,000. In the past years, grants for vital voluntary organisations and charities have steadily increased, however, this year they will remain at the same level as 2006/7 to save money.
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Health chiefs in Swansea are expected to start the financial year saddled with around £6 million of debt.Finance bosses at Swansea Local Health Board predict it will be burdened with the deficit come April.
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The number of detentions under the Act rose to 47,400 for the 12 months to March 2006, from 46,700 the previous year. Formal admissions rose to 27,400 in 2005/06 from 26,800 in 2004/05, surpassing the previous peak of 26,900 in 1998/99.
