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SORV Campaign Update: Can the NHS pledge on services be trusted?

Local residents and health workers have cast doubt on a pledge from East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust to retain all current services at the RVH after their announcement that they were looking at selling the Victorian part of the Royal Victoria. This week the NHS Trust has added to fears for the future of services by admitting that it was already considering withdrawing urology services offering by the Derry unit at the hospital.

7 Jan 2007
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Dundee LibDems support calls for action on climate change

Following news that the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007, Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 7th January) gave their support to comments by Liberal Democrat Shadow Environment Secretary, Chris Huhne MP, that this emphasised a clear need for action to tackle the effects of climate change.

7 Jan 2007
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Tim Prater

Hospital Campaign exposes threat to the Royal Victoria Derry Unit

A letter from the Chair of the East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust to the Liberal Democrats has revealed that the Trust is considering the future of the Derry Unit Urology services at the Royal Victoria. The letter was in response to local campaigner Tim Prater, who had asked if the Trust would guarantee the future of all services at the site after the announcement that the main RVH building was being considered for sale.

6 Jan 2007
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Treatment keeps girl child-sized

Parents of a severely disabled girl in the US have revealed that they are keeping her child-sized in order to give her a better life. The nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk.

6 Jan 2007
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Hearing aid pledge 'may not work'

Moves to cut waiting lists for the hard of hearing could result in even longer queues for hearing aids, the Royal National Institute for the Deaf fears. Research by Conservative MP Grant Shapps found waits of up to five years for new digital hearing aids.

6 Jan 2007
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