19 Nov 2008 - Skippers needed to help cause
The British Heart Foundation is appealing for volunteers to support a new initiative to get children skipping and raise vital funds for the cause. The nation's heart charity wants volunteer Schools Ambassadors to support its Jump Rope for Heart Challenge early next......
19 Nov 2008 - Comments: 7
The manoeuvre that prevented a vote on extending the Abortion Act has dragged law in the North even deeper into disrepute. The Government, in collaboration with the DUP and with the connivance of the Sinn Fein, Ulster Unionist and SDLP leaderships, has sought to park the issue in the twilight......
18 Nov 2008 - A YOUNG girl from Potters Bar is asking the Government for more support for schoolchildren with diabetes. Eight-year-old Katie Walsh, of Chace Avenue, has today (Tuesday) joined 200 other students and parents from around the country to take part in t
A YOUNG girl from Potters Bar is asking the Government for more support for schoolchildren with diabetes. Eight-year-old Katie Walsh, of Chace Avenue, has today (Tuesday) joined 200 other students and parents from around the country to take part in the Diabetes UK lobby of......
18 Nov 2008 - RCN Dermatology Nursing Forum annual conference and exhibition 2008
Location: Royal College of Nursing, London Skin care is everyones business This conference is for all nurses for whom skin care is a priority issue. It will be of prime interest to wound care nurses, tissue viability nurses as well as traditional dermatology......
18 Nov 2008 - Care Quality Commission (National)
Four senior appointments at Care Quality......
18 Nov 2008 - Taskforce opposes 'presumed consent' for organ donors
Brown says he may still change the law Inquiry unanimously against opt-out......
17 Nov 2008 - Diabetes care support plea
A TEN -year-old diabetes sufferer from Sheffield is to lobby MPs for better care for youngsters at school. Imogen Francis is one of 30 children and young people travelling to a Diabetes UK lobby of Parliament tomorrow to push MPs to improve support for pupils at......
17 Nov 2008 - RCS Statement in response to Organ Donation Taskforce Report
The Royal College of Surgeons is pleased the government has today confirmed strengthened infrastructure to support organ donation, a step which should help transplant surgeons save more......
17 Nov 2008 - Pensioners take to the streets
Hundreds of pensioners have taken part in a rally at Stormont demanding that politicians help them with the spiralling cost of living. Over 500 elderly people died here last year because of cold related illnesses and organisers say that figure is set to increase if the government doesnâ t......
16 Nov 2008 - Patients who pay for cancer care still face NHS costs
The government's policy change over 'top-up' treatment is not all it seems, writes Jon......