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Third Castlebeck care home shut
Aug 21st
Arden Vale cares for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities A third care home run by a company at the centre of allegations of abuse against vulnerable patients is to close, it has been announced.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Castlebeck had agreed to close Arden Vale, in Meriden, near Coventry, by next Thursday.
Castlebeck said it was making other arrangements for the 19 residents.
The company owns Winterbourne View, in Bristol, where abuse was filmed by an undercover BBC Panorama journalist.
‘No evidence’Since the BBC One programme was broadcast, the home for people with learning disabilities has been More >
Three cancers share genetic information
Aug 21st
Chromosomes contain genetic information – too many or too few could lead to cancer. A gene has been linked to at least three cancers in different tissues in the body, US researchers say.
Their findings, reported in the journal Science, showed a fifth of melanomas (skin cancer), Ewing’s sarcomas (bone) and glioblastomas (brain) had a defective copy of the gene STAG2.
It controls the way genetic material is divided between cells.
A cancer charity said the study provided researchers with new ways of tackling the disease.
Human genetic information is bound up in 23 pairs of chromosomes. When a cell divides More >
Trainee doctors ‘affect safety’
Aug 21st
The survey looked at the month when trainee doctors take up their posts The vast majority of doctors believe patient safety is compromised by the August intake of medical trainees, a survey has suggested.
The latest intake of medical trainee doctors start their training posts in the NHS at the beginning of the month.
The figures come in a study from the Society of Acute Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
It found that 90% of doctors who responded said the changeover had a negative impact on patient safety.
The report authors called for an urgent reform to the system More >
Breastfeeding
Aug 21st
Most women start breastfeeding Well over half of new mums have stopped breastfeeding by the time their babies are six weeks old, despite all the advice that ‘breast is best’ for their baby. So why do so few continue breastfeeding?
Figures out in June this year seemed to show that more women were taking the breastfeeding message on board.
The NHS Information Centre data showed that more than eight out of 10 mothers in the UK started breastfeeding their babies, up from six out of 10 in 1990.
But this week, data was published showing how many mothers in England were still More >
Beheading death was ‘preventable’
Aug 21st
The victim’s daughter, Sue Rayner, said the number of missed opportunities was beyond belief
The death of a man decapitated by a mental health patient could have been stopped had there not been a catalogue of lost opportunities, an inquiry says.Garnet Hooper, who had schizophrenia, attacked Graham Rayner, 64, of Taverham, Norfolk, with an axe on 24 May 2006.
The inquiry found Hooper had been without medication for a month.
As he had been violent before, “appropriate” action was needed when he stopped taking medication, it added.
Hooper, who was not named in the independent report, killed Mr Rayner then put his More >
Mosquitoes ‘develop resistance’
Aug 21st
The mosquito transmits malaria to humans Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a study from Senegal says.
In recent years the nets have become a leading method of preventing malaria, especially in Africa.
In the Lancet Infectious Diseases, the researchers also suggest the nets reduced the immunity of older children and adults to malaria infection.
But other experts say the study was too small to draw conclusions about the long-term effectiveness of nets.
In the war against malaria, the cheapest and most effective weapon to date has been the long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net.
Over the More >
Single-sex wards ‘now NHS norm’
Aug 21st
Eliminating mixed-sex wards has been a long-held goal Further falls in the number of patients kept on mixed-sex wards has prompted ministers to suggest single-sex accommodation is now the norm in the NHS in England.
In July there were 1,126 breaches – a drop of 90% since December 2010.
More than two thirds of hospitals reported zero breaches with the north east becoming the first region to report no breaches at all.
Ministers said the NHS had done a “fantastic job”.
A new system of fines was introduced in April in an attempt to eradicate what has been a long-running problem for More >
