Plea to lift ban on Alzheimer’s drugs fails

Plea to lift ban on Alzheimer’s drugs fails
Alzheimer’s campaigners lost an appeal yesterday for drugs to be made available to sufferers in the early stages of the disease.
Source:- Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 2

Rapist ‘may be working as carer’ to find victims
A serial rapist who targets elderly people may be working as a carer, detectives have said.
The Metropolitan Police have a file dating back 15 years on the man’s crimes and made a direct appeal to him yesterday saying that he knew that his activities had to stop.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 16

Government defeated over jail checks
The government was defeated in the Lords last night when peers voted to retain the independent prisons inspectorate by 211 to 98, a majority of 113.
Source:- Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 2

Britain becomes the fat man of Europe
Britain is the fattest country in Europe, the government said yesterday as it published the most comprehensive picture yet of the nation’s health.
Source:- Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 4

Loss of children’s play areas ‘as bad as junk food’
A lack of playing space for children was as damaging as the spread of junk food, an expert said yesterday.
The problem of obesity among youngsters needed to be tackled by encouraging “free play” and not just sporting activity, it was claimed at a conference dedicated to the subject.
Adrian Voce, the director of the Children’s Play Council and Play England, said many children could miss out on “the most fundamental part of childhood”.
Source:- Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 4

LSD helps alcoholics put down the bottle
A single dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD is an effective treatment for alcoholism, according to research led by a British doctor more than 40 years ago. Now a historian who unearthed the research has interviewed the participants four decades on and says the results are dramatic.
Source:- The Independent, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 14

Death of NHS patient in filthy bed revealed
The death of a grandmother who “wasted away” in a filthy hospital bed was revealed yesterday as the government launched a campaign for older people to have dignity in care.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 1

Half NHS trusts failing
Almost half of NHS trusts in England are failing patients, the Healthcare Commission will reveal today.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday 11 October 2006, page 2

Scottish news

Former Quarriers residents can sue
Four former residents of a children’s home who claim they were abused by staff are to get their day in court, a judge has ruled.
They have been given leave to sue Quarriers Homes in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, even though they raised the actions beyond the statutory period of limitation, on the grounds that they claimed not to have known that legal action was open to them.
About 25 former Quarriers children have alleged physical, and in some cases sexual, abuse at the hands of staff at the homes. A number of former staff have already been convicted.
Source:- The Herald, Wednesday 11 October 2006