Two Bristol Drug Centres Will Close
Two drugs projects which have helped thousands of addicts are set to close their drop-in services as cash to run them is sent elsewhere.
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Two drugs projects which have helped thousands of addicts are set to close their drop-in services as cash to run them is sent elsewhere.
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A new service has been launched in three north-east towns to help cancer sufferers cope with the practical and financial implications of the disease.
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A local authority is pulling out of an out-of-hours social work service led by a neighbouring council, deeming it poor value for money after inspectors warned it must improve.
South Lanarkshire Council has given notice it will withdraw from the West of Scotland standby service and provide its own emergency cover.
Glasgow City Council operates the standby service and last year was told by the Social Work Inspection Agency the service had serious limitations.
Most local authorities work in partnership to provide out of hours care.
The Glasgow-led West of Scotland service covers 13 councils, Edinburgh delivers a service for the three other Lothian councils, Dundee leads for Perth and Kinross and Angus, while Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire also work together.
Read MoreHOME care of the elderly and infirm is to be shaken up in a move which would save the city council £26 million at the expense of 750 jobs.
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New plans have been unveiled to integrate services for children and young people in Swansea.
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Prozac, the bestselling antidepressant taken by 40 million people worldwide, does not work and nor do similar drugs in the same class, according to a major review released today.
The study examined all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill.
When all the data was pulled together, it appeared that patients had improved – but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs.
The only exception is in the most severely depressed patients, according to the authors – Prof Irving Kirsch from the department of psychology at Hull University and colleagues in the US and Canada. But that is probably because the placebo stopped working so well, they say, rather than the drugs having worked better.
Read MorePolice are to review the case of a notorious paedophile known as the Beast of Jersey who regularly visited a care home on the island where the bones of a child were found at the weekend.
For 11 years Edward Paisnel, a building contractor, stalked the island wearing a rubber mask and nail-studded wristlets, attacking women and children with apparent impunity.
His visits in the 1960s to Haut de la Garenne, when he was often dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, were first revealed in a book written by his wife, Joan, in 1972, after he had been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Paisnel, who asked children to call him Uncle Ted, died in 1994.
Last month Gordon Wateridge, the 76-year-old former warder of Haut de la Garenne, became the first person to be charged in connection with the investigation into abuse on the island. Mr Wateridge was warder at the home between 1969 and 1979.
Read MoreThe family of a girl who was left blind and suffering from severe brain damage when doctors in Bristol took more than 20 minutes to resuscitate her has won £4.1 million in compensation.
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Perhaps you’ve seen it, maybe more than once; your colleague has resigned, and they’ll earn their last few wage cheque’s getting on everyone’s nerves. Negative or hostile remarks, projects left
Read MoreA VICTIM of child abuse at care homes in Wales is seeking compensation after a landmark House of Lords ruling.
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