A new £28 million maternity unit at the Southern General Hospital was given the go-ahead by health bosses in Glasgow yesterday. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde unveiled the plans for the new unit yesterday and promised it would be operational by December 2009.
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Plans for a new £874,000 care centre for people with physical disabilities have been unveiled in West Lothian. The council’s health and care committee has approved proposals to set up a care complex and supported housing development at Uphall.
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New arrangements to publicise the identities of sex offenders who seek to evade the police, and clearer guidance for the police on entering sex offenders’ homes to prevent crimes are being proposed by the Executive today.
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Fife Council has denied social work staff were under criminal investigation in the notorious Colyn Evans case. Last week, MSP Tricia Marwick rounded on the local authority over claims police had considered charging members of staff responsible for managing the former Kennoway teenager.
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A new model for rehabilitation in Scotland was officially launched today. Key actions within the Delivery Framework for Adult Rehabilitation in Scotland include:
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More people in Northern Ireland are using complementary and alternative medicine, a new survey has suggested. The University of Ulster survey found the use of therapies such as reflexology, acupuncture and herbal medicines was increasing.
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Breast cancer patients in Wales are not receiving the support they need to help them cope with the potentially lethal illness. Women have also spoken about the frustration and agony of having to wait to start treatment.
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The former chairman of the NSPCC in Wales Dr Jim Davies has died, aged 84. He chaired the children’s charity in Wales for 13 years before his retirement in 2002.
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The future of Britain’s biggest charities is being put at risk by their growing dependence on poorly-funded contracts to deliver public services, the chair of the Charity Commission will warn today.
{mosimage}Dame Suzi Leather’s stark assessment comes after a survey revealed that fewer than one in eight charities running services was confident it was being paid enough to cover its costs.
An “all-party love-in” between the voluntary sector and politicians who see the sector as offering a more effective and user-friendly way of delivering public services is also threatening charities’ independence, she will say.
In the survey carried out by the commission only 26% of charities providing services said they felt free to make decisions without pressure to conform to the wishes of their funders.
The findings and Dame Suzi’s comments will ignite a long-smouldering debate about the proper role of charities in the 21st century and the right balance between service delivery and campaigning.
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Almost two-thirds of nurses would take industrial action if they received an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, according to a poll. Almost a third (29%) would consider quitting the NHS, with 16% leaving for the independent sector and 13% leaving altogether.
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