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Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams
Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams
Young carers tell their stories & interview JLS Oritse Williams, himself a young carer in the past. He gives them advice about surviving the problems of being a young carer and making the best of what they have.
highlights young carers do a fantastic job looking after a relative in need of care but they also have needs and people to listen to them but there are cuts to the backup services for some
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMB7cVMrZPo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube]
A young mother left partly paralysed by a stroke can talk again thanks to a new clot-busting drug.
Clot-busting drug helps stroke mother speak again
Sophie Goodchild, Health and Social Affairs Correspondent
A young mother left partly paralysed by a stroke can talk again thanks to a new clot-busting drug.
Sally Hockley, 35, lost the use of her right arm and her ability to speak. Her face was also left paralysed.
But doctors at University College London Hospital saved her from permanent brain damage by using drugs which seek and destroy artery blockages which cut off the supply of blood to the brain.
The first time the voluntary sector has responsibility for an area’s entire palliative services
Palliative care outsourced to voluntary sector at two trusts
The wholesale transfer of end-of-life care to charities at two health trusts puts them at the vanguard of the government’s NHS reform plans
