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• Bipolar disorder may be linked to Parkinson's disease

  22-05-2019 22:27
  People who have bipolar disorder may be more likely to later develop Parkinson's disease than people who do not have bipolar disorder, according at a new study.
  
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• John Bell & Croyden launch private care home offering through InResidence Clinical Services

  22-05-2019 20:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Bell & Croyden – London’s luxury pharmacy and holders of the Royal Warrant – are delighted to launch a patient medication supply service to private care homes and hospices across Central London. Through their InResidence Clinical Services, John Bell & Croyden are offering a unique approach to healthcare, which aims to add a level […]
  
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• Care workers filmed taunting and provoking disabled patients

  22-05-2019 18:04
  BBC Panorama films Whorlton Hall staff taunting, provoking and scaring vulnerable peopleShocking evidence of abusive treatment of disabled people has been captured by secret filming for BBC Panorama in a chilling echo of the exposure of the Winterbourne View scandal eight years ago.An undercover reporter employed as a care worker filmed colleagues taunting, provoking, intimidating and repeatedly restraining patients with learning disabilities or autism at the private Whorlton Hall hospital near
  
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• Aspirin green light for brain bleed stroke patients, study suggests

  22-05-2019 14:15
  People who suffer a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain -- known as brain haemorrhage -- can take common medicines without raising their risk of another stroke, a major clinical trial has found. Researchers say the findings are reassuring for the thousands of people who take the medicines to reduce their risk of heart attack and another common type of stroke caused by blood clots in the brain.
  
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• A special day for people to mourn all their lost socks!

  22-05-2019 11:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at Borough Care’s Silverdale home in Bredbury marked National Lost Sock Day by taking part in a sock pairing session. Sock pairing is part of a regular programme of activities Borough Care puts on for its residents. The company has eleven homes across Stockport and is the largest not-for-profit provider of provider of care […]
  
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• ‘My headteacher said: “Stop crying – you got into Oxford!”’

  22-05-2019 10:59
  An estimated 12% of children in care go on to university – compared with 49% of the general population. Three who made it explain howWhen Sophia Alexandra Hall received the response to her application for the University of Oxford in 2015, she opened it in front of everyone at her school. “I ran into the canteen and burst into tears,” she says. “I was sobbing, and I remember my headteacher saying: ‘Stop crying – you got into Oxford!’ No one at social serv
  
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• Milestone visit is ‘animal magic’ for care home residents in Poole

  22-05-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When two-year-old Maggie padded cheerfully into the bright surroundings of Poole’s latest nursing home it was a doubly special moment. The collie cross poodle is the 500th dog taken on by Caring Canines and her visit to Bourne View was the Dorset therapy group’s first in 12 years to a just-opened Colten Care home. Amid […]
  
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• A Rising Star at Welling care home

  22-05-2019 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nicolas Kee Mew, Home Manager at Riverdale Court, Welling, has been selected to join an exciting programme to develop young managers in social care. The Rising Star Programme is a Leadership Development Programme for Registered Managers in Social Care run by the National Care Forum. The Rising Star programme was launched in 2017 and is […]
  
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• Wedding nuptials get complete rerun

  22-05-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Elizabeth Mannion-O’Keeffe was devastated that her 93-year-old mother, Jean Mannion, couldn’t attend her wedding in Harrogate, due to a long-term illness, so she and husband, Tony, took the wedding to mum and reran the whole ceremony just for her, complete with registrar, guests, cake and bridal gown, at the Belong care village in Warrington where […]
  
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• Public Service Awards 2019: categories and criteria

  22-05-2019 08:00
  A dozen categories are open to UK public service organisations, projects, teams and individuals. All categories are free to enterEntry formsHow to enterThe Guardian Public Service Awards 2019 showcase projects, teams and individuals making a real difference to people’s lives. The awards are free to enter and open to all those working in the UK public, private and voluntary sectors.Here are the 12 categories for the 2019 awards. There’s lots of choice for everyone delivering public se
  
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• Entry forms for 2019 Guardian Public Service Awards

  22-05-2019 08:00
  Use these forms to enter a project/team category, put forward an outstanding leader, or nominate a public servant of the yearHow to enterCategories and criteriaThe Guardian Public Service Awards 2019 showcase projects, teams and individuals making a real difference to people’s lives. The awards are free to enter and are open to all those working in the UK public, private and voluntary sectors.Once you’ve decided which category best fits your entry for the 2019 Guardian Public Service
  
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• Tory council chief warns of social care funding shortfall

  22-05-2019 07:01
  Traumatic effect of cuts on vulnerable people set to worsen, says Somerset leaderEngland faces a growing social care funding crisis which, if not fixed, will potentially leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people and their families without the care they need, a senior Conservative council leader has warned.Cllr David Fothergill, the leader of Somerset county council – which last year made big cuts to Sure Start centres and libraries to avoid bankruptcy – was speaking ahead of t
  
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