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• Growth hormone may provide new hope for stroke survivors

  30-05-2018 17:32
  Less fatigue and better recovery of cognitive abilities such as learning and memory. These may be the results of growth hormone treatment after a stroke, an experimental study of mice suggests.
  
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• Insomnia is a likely long-term side effect of stroke, study finds

  30-05-2018 17:31
  Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased risk of depression, a new study finds.
  
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• Faith-based groups 'increasingly stepping in to plug gaps in NHS'

  30-05-2018 16:54
  More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are helping overstretched NHS, says studyFaith-based organisations are increasingly stepping in to support the overstretched NHS, research has found. More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are working on health and social care initiatives that are “plugging the gap” left by funding cuts and limited resources, according to the Cinnamon Network, a charity that connects faith-based organisations.Related: The NHS’s new humani
  
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• 'A&E is no place for a crisis': Bradford leads the way in mental health care

  30-05-2018 12:52
  A 24-hour response team in West Yorkshire is easing the pressure on emergency servicesOne consequence of the closure of so many mental hospitals since the 1960s has been the increase in the number of people being sent far from their homes when they have needed a bed to receive treatment. However, a scheme in Bradford is showing that you can stop such out-of-area placements altogether by strengthening community-based care and support.
  “You can live in Lancashire and have to go to Cornwall f
  
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• Young people can be champions of change in mental health care

  30-05-2018 11:16
  New initiatives are helping young people enter the conversation – but there’s still stigma around accessing services‘If you don’t deal with the mental health of young people, the cost to the community is disastrous, never mind the public purse,” says Jacqui Dyer, chair of Black Thrive and vice-chair of the England Mental Health Task Force. Black Thrive, based in Lambeth, south London, aims to tackle the systemic issues behind poor mental health outcomes in black com
  
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• Home care operator expands services in Northumberland

  30-05-2018 10:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Helping Hands Community Care, the leading independent home care provider in Northumberland, is expanding its service –  following the withdrawal of Tynedale Care Ltd in the county.
   
  All services provided by Tynedale Care, along with their team of 28 carers and five office staff, have been transferred across to Helping Hands.
   
  David Harrison, managing director at Helping Hands, said: “I can reassure all service users and their families that it is our intention to ensu
  
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• North Hykeham residents enjoy a visit from local pre-school nursery

  30-05-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Neale Court Care Home in North Hykeham have been enjoying visits from local pre-school children from Park School Day Nursery. The children from the nursery have been making regular visits to the North Hykeham care home and getting to know the elderly residents and making new friends.
   
  Children from the Park School Day Nursery share various activities with the residents, who look forward to the visits and are always pleased to see the children. “It’s great to see the residents f
  
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• Theatre company thank care home residents for inspiring success of moving play about dementia

  30-05-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pendine Park, Bryn Seiont Newydd, Caernarfon; Pictured are Olwen Williams and Carl Owen from Fran Wen With Gwynfor Jones and Nia Davies Williams.
  More than 5,000 people saw a moving play about dementia inspired by residents of a care home in Gwynedd.
  The nationwide tour of Ŵy, Chips a Nain (Egg, Chips and Grandma) by the Frȃn Wen theatre company  was the most successful large-scale production in their history.
  The play shines a light on the effects of the cruel condition as seen t
  
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• Seven years on from Winterbourne View, why has nothing changed? | Saba Salman

  30-05-2018 08:00
  People with learning disabilities are still at risk of being abused and dying unnecessarily in institutions. This is unacceptableThis week is the seventh anniversary of BBC Panorama’s exposure of the systematic abuse of people with learning disabilities at Winterbourne View hospital in Gloucestershire.The abuse viewers saw routinely taking place at the NHS-funded assessment and treatment unit (ATU), seemed like a watershed moment. A government investigation and official report promised tha
  
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• ‘What good is advanced surgery if we can’t even offer proper homecare?’ | Anna Bawden and Nicola Slawson

  30-05-2018 07:00
  A crisis in council funding is forcing domiciliary care firms to cancel contracts, leaving older people without vital supportAlmost 1.2 million people aged over 65 do not receive the support they need with essential daily tasks such as getting washed and dressed or preparing meals, according to Age UK. The perilous state of the domiciliary care sector, which provides support in people’s own homes, is one of the main reasons for this, the charity says. Related: NHS needs £2,000 in tax
  
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• Domestic abusers still able to cross-examine victims in court

  30-05-2018 01:01
  Survey finds 24% of survivors have faced ordeal in year since government promised to end itVictims of domestic violence continue to be cross-examined by their abusers in family courts more than a year after the government promised to stop such ordeals, a report has found.Children’s lives were being put at risk because victims were not being given safe or fair hearings, according to the study by Women’s Aid and Queen Mary University of London. Continue reading...
  
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• Self-tuning brain implant could help treat patients with Parkinson's disease

  30-05-2018 00:53
  Deep brain stimulation has been used to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms for 25 years, but limitations have led researchers to look for ways to improve the technique. This study describes the first fully implanted DBS system that uses feedback from the brain itself to fine-tune its signaling.
  
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