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Difficulties Accessing Basic Mental Health Services in Wales & England

Difficulties Accessing Basic Mental Health Services in Wales & England

March 2, 2010 No Comments

Today, the MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health launch the report of their investigation into the implementation of the recent NICE Guideline on treatment of schizophrenia. The Group took up this issue following responses to parliamentary questions, which revealed that implementation was the responsibility of individual NHS organisations and progress was ...

Welsh childhood diabetes shock

Welsh childhood diabetes shock

February 8, 2010 No Comments

A shocking number of children are being rushed to hospital suffering from a potentially fatal diabetic condition, says the National Director of Diabetes UK Cymru, Dai Williams. More than 120 children in Wales were admitted to accident and emergency departments in a year with a potentially fatal diabetic complication, leading health charity Diabetes UK Cymru warns ...

£1 million Cardiff University study into obesity in pregnancy

November 25, 2009 No Comments

A joint Cardiff University and NHS study designed to establish whether encouraging obese pregnant women to eat more healthily and take more exercise has a positive impact on both mother and child has received a £1M funding boost. The Healthy Eating and Lifestyle in Pregnancy (HELP) project, funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative, will ...

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Cardiff Awarded Healthy Cities Status

November 6, 2009 No Comments

Cardiff has become the first Welsh city to be given World Health Organization (WHO) Healthy Cities status joining only seven other cities in the United Kingdom . Achievement of the award is being seen as an important step in ensuring Cardiff continues to develop as one of the best places to live in the country ...

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Shadow Health Minister calls for end to neuro-surgery uncertainty

October 19, 2009 No Comments

Shadow Health Minister Andrew RT Davies has called on the Assembly Government to end uncertainty over the provision of complex neurosurgery in south Wales. The demand follows a decision to transfer emergency neurosurgery at Swansea’s Morriston Hospital to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff due to staffing problems earlier this year. South Wales Central ...

Health, Welsh Assembly

Local MP supports RNID hearing check campaign

October 14, 2009 No Comments

Cardiff West MP, Kevin Brennan, has joined RNID Cymru’s call for people to value their hearing and take the charity’s specially developed hearing check. Kevin Brennan took RNID’s five-minute hearing check, which assesses your ability to hear someone speaking with background noise – similar to being in a crowded room – and helps identify whether ...

Cardiff News, Health

Alexandra Burke appeals for young Welsh diabetes campaigners

October 9, 2009 No Comments

X Factor winner Alexandra Burke is calling on young people affected by diabetes in Wales to join leading health charity Diabetes UK’s new young campaigners network. The X Factor winner, whose mother has Type 2 diabetes and had kidney failure last year, is launching Diabetes UK’s My Voice campaign to encourage and support young people ...

Health

Smoking mothers risk children’s psychosis

October 8, 2009 No Comments

Mothers who smoke during pregnancy put their children at greater risk of developing psychotic symptoms in their teenage years. New research, led by Dr Stanley Zammit of the School of Medicine, shows a link between maternal tobacco use and psychotic symptoms. Researchers from Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham and Warwick Universities studied 6,356 12-year-olds from the Avon ...

Cardiff News, Health

Difficulties Accessing Basic Mental Health Services in Wales & England

Today, the MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health launch the report of their investigation into...

Welsh childhood diabetes shock

A shocking number of children are being rushed to hospital suffering from a potentially fatal diabetic condition, says the...

Cardiff’s environmental policies having an effect!

Cardiff Council’s energy saving drive and bid to cut carbon emissions is already reaping the benefits. In the last...

Cardiff East park and ride proving popular in run up to Christmas

The new Park and Ride in the east of Cardiff is proving to be extremely popular, with the numbers...

Cardiff students take control of world’s largest radio telescope

A group of Cardiff students took control of one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes this week as...

Willott fights Severn Toll increase

Jenny Willott, Welsh Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, tabled a motion in Parliament calling on the Government to...

Legislative logjam cannot continue say Conservatives

Flagship Assembly Government legislation could take almost three years to come into force, says Welsh Conservatives. Shadow Health Minister...

Cardiff’s music service tunes up for a busy festive season

This Christmas will be busier than ever for the Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Music Service ensembles, with...

A glimpse of Christmas past

It’s not just Scrooge who has the opportunity to visit Christmas past, Glamorgan Archives has many items that help...

Insole Court – Llandaff’s hidden gem

Cardiff Council, in partnership with the Friends of Insole Court Heritage Interpretation Project, today celebrate a successful first year...