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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
£3.45 million funding boost for Carers Trust to support UK’s most vulnerable unpaid carersCarers Trust leads new programme to support over 13,500 carers worst affected by pandemic Carers Trust is pleased to announce it is working with 25 programme partners to use £3.45 million of funding to boost support for over...
A play about young carers in Salford that “knocked MPs sideways” is about to embark on a national tour.The show, Who Cares, was written by Matt Woodhead and co-produced by The Lowry and LUNG. It was made in partnership with Greater Manchester charity, Gaddum and its Salford Carers Service...
Last week, one of our readers sent in this ad from their local newspaper.We’ve since spotted it in multiple local newspapers across the country - and across social media.But the ad seriously misinterprets Yellow Card reporting data. Yellow Card is an important scheme set up by the medicines regulator to investigate...

Spiking: The New Pandemic

“I am actually terrified of going out at the moment” Jess Short, a student of Bournemouth University shared. A recent wave of spiking has spread through UK nightclubs as a growing number of women have found themselves victims of a new spiking epidemic, with multiple women reporting to have found...
Leading local charity Dorset Mind recognise that people in Dorset will continue to experience the most difficult challenges to their mental health for a considerable time yet. Requests for help rose yet again during the third lockdown period and many communities need help more than ever. Without a firm...
Brilliant response to GB News presenter who wants to load all the criticism on to the NHS but generally ignores all the lies and failed promises from the government. If the government want to intentionally undermine the health care system to turn the public against it then they doing a...
'We write as NHS doctors who believe we now must come out fighting for the NHS. The NHS is a vitally important service delivering care to all those who need it, free at the point of need. But it is suffering badly after nearly a decade of Conservative government...
A minister has refused to apologise 11 times for the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, after a highly-critical report by MPs said thousands of lives were lost due to delays and mistakes by both ministers and their scientific advisers. "We followed, throughout, the scientific advice. We got the vaccine...
COVID-19 and flu are co-circulating this year for the first time and those who catch both are twice as likely to die, early evidence suggests, amid fears of a "twindemic". Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), also warned that there could be multiple strains of...
A man has sadly died from his injuries sustained following a road traffic collision in Ferndown. Dorset Police received a report at 5.33pm on Tuesday 5 October 2021 of a collision involving a white artic lorry and a pedestrian on Ringwood Road near to The White Heather pub. The pedestrian –...