£96,000 Learning Rooms
People with learning disabilities are benefiting from some extra space at a day care centre in Alfreton.
20 Nov 2006
News
Disabled children 'short-changed'
Disabled and terminally-ill children are going without vital equipment as the NHS and councils are not providing enough funding, research shows. BDF Newlife, formerly the Birth Defects Foundation, found the bodies spent just £60 a year per child - leaving 250,000 children waiting for equipment. The charity said children under two need £7,000 of specialist equipment, including beds and wheelchairs.
20 Nov 2006
Child 'adult mental care' scandal
Treating children in adult psychiatric wards is a "national scandal", the Children's Commissioner has said. Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green told the BBC he fears children leave in a poorer condition than when they went in.
20 Nov 2006
Plan to beef up mental health law
The government is pushing ahead with plans to toughen up 23-year-old laws governing the treatment of people with severe mental health problems. Ministers want to amend rules to allow people with untreatable personality disorders to be detained even if they have not committed a crime. The new bill also suggests beefing up powers to ensure patients have therapy once they are back in the community.
19 Nov 2006
Call centre staff 'hearing risk'
Two thirds of UK call centres fail to protect their workers against hearing damage from noise, a report warns. Experts will tell an acoustic safety conference in Glasgow many of the 900,000 call centre staff are at risk. They are set to say increasing numbers of injuries and illnesses are being caused by acoustic shock and other noise related hazards.
19 Nov 2006
Better Alzheimer's test developed
A new test may help researchers understand why a toxin builds up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Amyloid beta protein accumulates in the brain in Alzheimer's disease but whether the body produces too much or cannot break it down is unclear. But by labelling the protein with a carbon isotope, doctors can measure the rate of turnover, a report in Nature Medicine suggests.
19 Nov 2006