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| More than 800,000 people a year are being admitted to hospital with alcohol-related injuries and illness – more than four times the previously acknowledged figure. Official figures, to be published today, will show that six per cent of all NHS admissions are in some way drink-related. The release of the figures coincides with the publication of the government’s plans for tackling Britain’s increasing binge-drinking culture. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | he Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| Men who expect to die from prostate cancer have been offered hope by a drug which could represent the biggest step forward in treating the disease in 60 years. A preliminary trial has shown that Abiraterone can reverse even the most aggressive, resistant and deadly cancers. Doctors believe it could potentially prolong the lives of up to 10,000 British men each year, as well as providing relief from symptoms such as excruciating bone pain. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the seriously ill men treated with the drug have shown significant improvements. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| The migrants’ Rights Centre of Ireland (MRCI) receives calls on a daily basis from migrant workers who are being exploited in the workplace, it has been revealed. A spokesman for the centre – which was set up initially by the Columban Missionary Society – was speaking in the aftermath of the publication by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Equality Authority of a survey that found 31% of Black, Asian and other ethnicities and 24% of non-Irish nationals had experienced discrimination in the past two years. | |
| Work/Employment | The Universe - June 8th 2008 |
| Some nurses lack basic training in treating heart disease, the UK’s biggest killer. More than one in four (28 per cent) are uncomfortable seeing patients with cardiovascular disease, while one in eight (14 per cent) have never had any basic training. The poll of more than 800 Primary Care nurses was carried out for journal Nursing In Practice. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| Managing conflict at work is becoming an increasing challenge for employers. In 2006-07 the number of individual employment disputes that resulted in tribunal cases increased to 132,577 compared to 115,039 for the previous year. Research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) Managing conflict at work survey (2007) also shows that conflict at work costs the average organisation around 350 days of managment time, as well as annual costs associated with employment tribunal claims of about £210,000 for those employing 10,000 or more people. | |
| Work/Employment | The HR Director - June 08 |
| Too many people are being sent to jail because of botched Government reforms which were not properly funded, MPs said today in a scathing report. The Commons Justice Committee said hasty legislation had been a “significant contributor” to prison overcrowding, with record numbers now behind bars. It blamed a failure to pump enough cash into community punishments for a rise in short jail terms. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - July 22nd 2008 |
| The lastest annual Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and AXA Absence survey revealed that absence levels were 30% higher across public sector organisations than in the private sector. The average private sector worker was off sick for 6 days last year; the average public sector worker was off for eight and a half days. A recent survey by Reed of over 100 HR professionals revealed that stress is the top cause of rising employee absenteeism in the UK. 76% of respondants noted an increase in the number of employees taking time off due to stress-related illnesses in the last 5 years. | |
| Work/Employment | The HR Director - June 08 |
| Four out of 10 people say their finances are now tight following jumps in the cost of living, a survey showed today. Around 39 per cent of people said that while they were managing to get by, things were “pretty tight,” up from just 25 per cent who felt this way in 2006. Also, the proportion of people who admitted they were really struggling financially has doubled. | |
| Money | The Sentinel - July 23rd 2008 |
| Decades of dumbing down in education have cost the economy £9 billion as hundreds of thousands of teenagers turn their back on maths, a report warned today. Every teenager who drops the subject at A-level misses out on £136,000 in lifetime earnings. Since 1990 a “lost generation” of nearly 440,000 pupils has given up maths at a cost to the economy of £9 billion. | |
| Education | The Sentinel - June 3rd 2008 |
| Olympic silver medal winning boxer Amir Khan launched a campaign today warning children about the dangers of railway lines. The fighter was in Leeds to promote Network Rail’s summer campaign to keep children off the track as the city was named the UK’s hotspot for railway offending. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - July 17th 2008 |
| The cost of carrying out home improvements has soared by around 20 per cent during the past two years. A combination of rising transport and raw material costs and a shortage of tradesmen has pushed up the bill for repairs and improvements such as carrying out a loft conversion or installing double-glazing, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). | |
| Housing | The Sentinel - June 3rd 2008 |
| Sir David Attenborough today announced a network of Butterfly Survival Zones in a bid to save some of the country’s rarest species from possible extinction. The presenter, who fears we are entering a “post-butterfly era”, said a national strategy was needed to reverse the steep fall in numbers. | |
| Environment | The Sentinel - July 17th 2008 |
| A fifth of children aged 11 to 13 are not fully protected against meningitis and may require a booster jab, researchers said today. A study found youngsters could be at risk of contracting the disease even if they have received the vaccine. In 1999/2000, the government ran a mass immunisation campaign aged one to 18. But experts have discovered that the youngsters who were aged six to eight when they were vaccinated were not sufficiently protected when they reached the ages of 11-13. | |
| Health | The Sentinel - June 6th 2008 |
| A Detailed picture of the true extent of knife crime was revealed for the first time in official figures today. Annual crime figures contained a new set of data on knife attacks in every force in England and Wales. Serious violent crimes involving a blade were previously bundled with other attacks, but since April last year officers have recorded them separately in light of growing public concern. Police recorded around 20,000 serious offences involving knives last year, including grievous bodily harm, attempted murder, woundings and robbery. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - July 17th 2008 |
| The effects of cannabis may be worse for teenage boys than for girls, new research suggests. Teenage male users have been linked to more serious delinquent behaviours than girls, the research from Queen’s University Belfast suggests. Over 4,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 15 completed a questionnaire about their mental health and drug use. Cannabis-using boys were more likely to commit offences and behave in an antisocial manner, whereas cannabis-using girls were more likely to show problem behaviours at school leading to detention. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - June 2008 |
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