Health of patients will set GP pay – Tory plan
The Conservatives will announce plans today to give patients with long-term conditions individual budgets to buy services from the NHS, including therapy, in a policy paper on health today.This will open up political ground between the opposition and the government, which has rejected plans to extend individual budgets from social care to the NHS.
Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 20 June 2007 page 4
Abortions increase by 4% in one year
The abortion rate for under-16s and under-18s rose faster than the national average rise of 4% last year, government figures show.
Health minister Caroline Flint said the figures revealed the need for better contraceptive services.
Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 20 June 2007 page 12
Immoral support
Tony Blair was half-right when he said that violence among young people had its roots in youth culture – but half-wrong to confine this to young black people, the authors of a book on youth culture.
Dick Pountain and David Robins have investigated what they call the “cool ethic” in their book Cool Rules, which they say is a response among young people to consumer capitalism.
Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 20 June 2007 page 1
Mental Health’s voice of reason
A corporate finance lawyer, who uses mental health services, has founded a charity to fight mental health stigma and make mental ill-health acceptable in public in the way that Stonewall has done for homosexuality.
Jonathan Naess has founded Stand to Reason during a sabbatical form his firm.
Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 20 June 2007 page 2
Neglected option
The number of traumatised youngster needing intensive help has not reduced, yet one specialist school has seen a downturn in referrals. A report on an issue for tomorrow’s white paper on looked-after children.
Source:- Society Guardian, Wednesday 20 June 2007, page 3
Domestic abuse is a hidden epidemic, warns the BMA
All women who go to accident and emergency departments should be asked if they are victims of domestic abuse, health officials have said.
The British Medical Association, which makes the comments in a new guide, says that domestic abuse is happening on a large scale behind closed doors and that doctors need to be trained to ask the right questions to uncover the issue.
Source:- The Independent, Wednesday, 20 June 2007, page 6
The disturbed generation
More than a million children have got mental health problems according to new research.
The figures, from children’s charity NCH, show tat one in ten children now has a mental health problem.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday, 20 June 2007, page 1
Scottish news
Councils still use hostel stripped of licence
Councils are still sending homeless people to a private hostel stripped of its licence.
At least four authorities are continuing to refer clients, some with severe addiction problems, to the Parkview B&B in the south side of Glasgow.
The hostel, which has been officially linked with a rise in crime in the neighbourhood, had its licence revoked by licensing officials last November. It remains open, however, while its owner, McKever Hotels, tries to reverse the decision.
Source: The Herald, Wednesday 20 June
Complaints about Kerelaw abuse ‘written off as lies’
Many complaints from children being abused at Kerelaw were written off as lies.
Glasgow Council last week said it believed a hard core of around 40 members of staff at the school had physically or sexually abused children in their care. But it has admitted that many of the victims had reported their experiences to social workers or other professionals but had been ignored.
