AFTER failing to get any stars for breastfeeding services in a national review, the maternity ward at Warrington Hospital is embarking upon a new approach to feeding. All staff members are to get training on the benefits of breastfeeding over bottle feeding in an effort to raise the number of new mums who think that "breast is best". A report from the Healthcare Commission on maternity services last month gave Warrington Hospital zero out of five for breastfeeding services.
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Midwives urge new mums to breastfeed - Warrington Guardian 25th February 2008
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NHS waste dumped on doorstep - Manchester Evening News 25th February 2008
A BAG of potentially dangerous hospital waste was dumped outside a Manchester home The bright yellow bag, which had been torn open, was found outside the front gate of a house on Wilmslow Road - a route to school for children at nearby Beaver Road Primary.
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Probe into nursing home fight - The Bolton News 25th February 2008
AN investigation has been launched after a member of staff used her mobile phone to film two elderly women fighting in a nursing home. The pensioners, both residents on the dementia unit at the Four Seasons private nursing home in Breightmet Fold Lane, Breightmet, were filmed as they argued. Rather than helping the two women, the care worker used her mobile phone to capture the scuffle.
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4,000 more midwives for NHS after criticism of poor maternity care - The Guardian 25th February 2008
The NHS in England is to recruit an additional 4,000 midwives over the next three years after criticism from health inspectors of the poor standard of care in understaffed maternity wards. Alan Johnson, the health secretary, will launch a recruitment drive today, including an offer of a £3,000 "golden hello" incentive to former midwives willing to retrain to come back into the profession.
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Open door - The Guardian 25th February 2008
The publication, last week, of new guidelines for reporting mental illness and suicide was timely. What's the Story?, published by Shift, a Department of Health-funded initiative, says: "The terrible truth is that people who are already feeling suicidal sometimes take their own lives after seeing media coverage of other suicides."
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Additives linked to hyperactivity still used in medicines for young - The Guardian 25th February 2008
Colour and sweetness additives with links to hyperactivity in some children are still being used to help medicine go down, campaigners claim in a report today. Laboratory tests on 70 syrups and other products to treat young people found that 28 contained one or more E-number products, says the Food Commission. Research at Southampton university traced additives in 16 proprietary medicines sold as suitable for children aged under three, in spite of advice from the government's Food Standards Agency that parents with children showing signs of hyperactivity should avoid E-number products.
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Half a million may have diabetes - or high risk - without knowing it - The Guardian 25th February 2008
More than half a million people could have diabetes or a high risk of developing the condition without knowing it, according to a survey of GPs' surgeries. Doctors examined medical records of more than 3.6 million patients at 480 surgeries in the UK and found thousands of cases of probable diabetes that had not been diagnosed. Hundreds of thousands more were found to be at risk of developing the disease.
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Eliane Glaser: Parenting is an imperfect business, learned on the job - The Guardian 25th February 2008
It's still taboo for women to express mixed feelings about motherhood, but many don't find the idyll they'd been led to expect Over the centuries, religion, literature and popular culture have worked tirelessly to promote motherhood as an ideal. Today, endless media stories about infertility ratchet up the pressure on women: twentysomethings who delay having children are told they risk "heartbreak". Images of happy mums are everywhere: think of the Spice Girls on stage singing Mama to their breakdancing progeny.
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Young adults’ inactivity puts them at risk of heart attack - The Times 25th February 2008
The worsening trend in heart disease despite improving treatments is because of lifestyle factors such as smoking and lack of exercise, experts say. Between 1993 and 2003 the largest relative increase in obesity has been in adults under 45, while cholesterol levels have changed little or even increased among the younger age groups.
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Euthanasia: 'We should not be made to suffer like this' - The Telegraph 25th February 2008
As Luxembourg joins Holland and Belgium in legalising euthanasia, Val McKay, terminally ill with multiple sclerosis, tells Jocasta Shakespeare why the law in Britain should change Above Val McKay's bed hangs a ceramic Death's Head, his cowled skull grinning above a sign that spells ''Welcome".
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Relaxed pub laws 'moved crime to early hours' - The Telegraph 25th February 2008
An attempt to create a Continental-style cafe culture by letting pubs and clubs open for longer will be branded a failure in a major Government review, with people drinking more and committing crimes late into the night.
Trust me I'm a junior doctor - The Telegraph 25th February 2008
It's wrong to abuse the obese, says Max Pemberton, but it's right to make them diet There is a national pastime exercised on a daily basis up and down the country - in people's homes, in Whitehall, in magazine offices, advertising agencies and doctors' surgeries. It's a strange preoccupation which stands as one of the last bastions of acceptable intolerance. Feeling a bit tired and frumpy? Feel like taking it out on someone? Have a go at a fat person.
Hunting the genes of genius - The Telegraph 25th February 2008
If we identify and eliminate the genes that cause mental disorders, do we risk destroying the rich creativity that often accompanies them, asks Colin Blakemore Isaac Newton was able to work without a break for three days. Einstein took a job in a patent office because he was too disruptive to work in a university. HG Wells was so gawky and insecure at school that he had only one friend. Are these psychiatric disorders that should be treated or genius that should be cherished?
8,500 NHS staff have £1m pension pots ... and the burden is set to soar - Daily Mail 24th February 2008
Thousands of NHS doctors have retired with pension pots worth more than £1million, a report revealed yesterday. Almost 8,500 are benefiting from gold-plated retirement funds - worth £33,000 a year - paid for by the taxpayer. And that figure will rise "dramatically" in future as the huge pay rises recently offered to GPs and consultants begin to have an effect on their final salary schemes.
How a bout of depression can be good for you - Daily Mail 24th February 2008
A bout of depression could be good for the soul, a leading psychiatrist claims. Dr Paul Keedwell says the condition may bring misery to its sufferers, but it can also leave them tougher and more resilient. He also claims it can spark creativity and may even have been beneficial during evolution.
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