Council faces more disappointment
Dear Sir,
DPH
8 May 2014
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Council faces more disappointment
Dear Sir,
DPH
8 May 2014
Cuts for young people - WC response to consultation
Massive cuts to services to young people have generated a strong response to WC's consultation on the proposals. The cuts were reduced at a council meeting in February after opposition councillors proposed alternative ways to spend money, but the new service will still be a reduction on what went before.
8 May 2014
MP backs campaign to get students to take up STEM subjects
A new campaign, launched today, which encourages young people to take up science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM subjects) at school and beyond, is being backed by South Lakes MP Tim Farron.
8 May 2014
Mental health patients, not being treated near to their home.
A lack of beds is forcing mental health patients in England to seek treatment in other NHS facilities up to hundreds of miles away, BBC research has found. The number of patients travelling to seek emergency treatment has more than doubled in two years - from 1,301 people in 2011-12 to 3,024 in 2013-14. Earlier this year one patient was admitted to a deaf unit as no beds were available anywhere in the country.
7 May 2014
Complacency could be causing a rise in asthma deaths.
People suffering from asthma are dying unnecessarily because of complacency among both medical staff and patients, according to the first national study of asthma deaths in the UK.
7 May 2014