Category Archives: Carers
Foreign GPs will face English language test – Lansley
Mr Lansley will say a change in the law will reduce NHS users’ “anxiety”.
Doctors with a “poor grasp” of English will be prevented from working for the NHS, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is expected to say.
He will tell the Conservative Party conference he has an “absolute commitment” to patient safety and that GPs will be vetted to ensure their language skills do not compromise this.
This follows the death of a man treated by a German locum GP in 2008.
Mr Lansley will say a change in the law will reduce NHS users’ “anxiety”.
TV stars sign up for run
Richard, whose mum had Alzheimer’s, will be doing the run for the third year in a row.
Two South Yorkshire celebrities will lead the Alzheimer’s Society team in this weekend’s Great Yorkshire Run.
Sheffield-born Richard McCourt, one half of TV presenting duo Dick and Dom, and Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes star Dean Andrews, born in Rotherham, are both lending their support to the charity.
Ways that my son with autism has embarrassed me
Autism, Social Thinking and Embarrassment: It’s Not a Bad Thing…
A couple of weeks back, the theme for a wonderful facebook group called Special Saturday was Embarrassing Moments. This has been rattling around in my head for a while now as I have been considering a couple of different ways that I could approach this as a topic.
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