You might have read elsewhere that today is World Stroke Day. And that to mark the day, its been announced that an NHS initiative to speed up the treatment of stroke victims is being rolled out across Wales. A very welcome development. BMA Cymru recently gave evidence to the National Assembly’s Health Committee on stroke [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Some Good News on World Stroke Day
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Out of Sight: Out of Mind
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Yesterday saw a historic victory in preventing children and young people from taking up the deadly habit of smoking as Members of Parliament voted to end the display of tobacco at the point of sale AND to ban the sale of tobacco in vending machines. With most smokers becoming addicted before their mid-20s, it is [...]
Reporting patient safety concerns will lead to better patient care
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Today the NHS National Patient Safety Agency published the latest incident report for NHS organisations in Wales. The information is compiled from reports from frontline NHS staff and is published twice a year. Today’s publication shows that 90% of all patient safety incidents result in no (67.9%) or low (22.1%) harm to the patient. That [...]
Campaign Success – Every Welsh Council Leisure Centre soon to be Sunbed Free
Friday, October 2nd, 2009We are absolutely delighted that after our recent sunbeds campaign, the three remaining local authorities in Wales (Vale of Glamorgan, Flintshire and Wrexham) who continued to operate and profit from sunbeds are on the road to removing them. That means by April next year, no local authority owned leisure centre will operate sunbeds. Our campaign [...]