Caring
Caring
There’s a lot more to caring than knowing
There’s a lot more to caring than saying
There’s a lot more to caring than thinking
You can ‘know’ you care
Think you care
Convince yourself you care, even think that you genuinely care
But that really isn’t fair
If your actions don’t match
The attitude of caring
The attitude of loving
It’s more
It’s more than those who love you
More than those who care for you
It’s the ones who don’t
It’s the ones you don’t know
It’s those, it’s them, they need you most
You can’t just walk away
Caring is more than something you can think about
You can’t be compassionate and ignore a need
You can’t fulfill every need
Where is compassion?
Liverpool Council Leader says cuts are “heartbreaking”
Liverpool Council Leader says cuts are “heartbreaking”
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Liverpool City Council’s leader has said having to find savings of £91m has been “absolutely heartbreaking”.
Labour leader Joe Anderson said he was “so angry and so devastated” at decisions the council has had to make.
Cuts revealed on Thursday will affect childrens’ services, leisure centres, libraries, and voluntary groups, and result in hundreds of job losses.
Mr Anderson said everyone in the city would be affected by cuts which are having to be made.
“When somebody says every family or every service within the city is going to be affected, they are absolutely right,” he said.
“And that’s why your roads won’t be getting cleansed as much as we want, there’ll be no street cleaning as much as you used to get.
“Libraries will have to reduce their hours or close, leisure centres will have to reduce their hours or close, the potholes won’t be getting filled.
“Every part of our life in this city is going to be affected.”
Half of hospitals still treating patients in mixed wards
Half of hospitals still treating patients in mixed wards
Half of hospitals are still treating patients in mixed-sex wards as managers struggle to eradicate the practice before they start receiving fines.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 6:30AM GMT 18 Feb 2011
Official data show that 72 out of 144 acute trusts that provided figures treated men and women in the same wards in January, up from 70 out of 147 the previous month.
In total there were 8,160 incidences of patients of different sexes sharing wards last month.
Although this represents a fall on December’s figure of 11,362, it means managers are still battling to end the practice before a tough new regime is introduced.
From April, hospitals in England will face fines of £250 for each breach of the rules, which will be recorded on wards by computers and sent through the NHS management system.
Katherine Murphy, Chief Executive of the Patients Association, said: “It is incredibly alarming that 50 per cent of hospitals are still providing mixed sex accommodation despite the Government’s commitment for this practice to stop by April.
