Leicester care home fined £100K over burns death
A care home company has been fined £100,000 for breaching safety laws after the death of an 85-year-old resident who suffered serious burns following a fall. Walter Powley died in
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Tag: Health and Wellbeing
New online training resource for health and charity sectors
Skills for Health have announced the launch of the ‘Skills Platform’, creating the UK’s first dedicated online marketplace for training and personal development within the health and charity sectors. Funded
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Welsh Gov launch ‘live well and live longer’ programme
A new programme to reduce the number of people in some of Wales’ most deprived communities from dying prematurely from cardiovascular disease and cancer has been launched by Deputy Health
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Labour calls for emergency summit on health & social care
Labour has called on the Government to convene an emergency summit of health, social care, council and emergency services to find ways to ease the pressures on struggling accident and
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Health Minister concedes NHS not meeting targets
Health Minister Norman Lamb has admitted the NHS “is not meeting” its targets, as new figures today are expected to show that A&E waiting times have fallen to their worst
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PHE launch campaign in bid to reduce sugar intake of children
Parents are being encouraged to cut back on the amount of sugar they feed their children in a new Public Health England (PHE) campaign launched today. It comes as a
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East Lothian consults on integrated health & social care
East Lothian Council and NHS Lothian have launched two consultations on the integration of health and social care in the East Lothian. In April 2015, the new East Lothian Health
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NI physical activity scheme to promote staff wellbeing
Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells was in Lisburn to launch a novel ‘physical activity loyalty’ card scheme (PAL) to create opportunities to support behaviour change and improve physical well-being.
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Study links childhood stress to risk-taking and illness
Childhood stress could have biological effects that hasten ageing and lead to impulsive behaviour later in life, research suggests. Scientists found the first evidence of genetic changes associated with early-life
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Health survey of Scottish population published
The Scottish Government has published results of the 2013 Scottish Health Survey, which aims to provide a detailed picture of the health of the Scottish population in private households and
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