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Woman who put tiredness down to busy life spent a month on life support

A woman who put feeling unwell down to just being tired from her busy life, found herself in an intensive care unit and on a life support machine earlier this year. Tara Joanna Hamer lived a very active lifestyle, going to the gym, working for the NH

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Top cop says watching Taser bodycam will taint inquiry

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says viewing footage of an elderly woman being Tasered could affect her impartiality and taint the investigation.

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Mount Gambier In Home Hospice Care calls for ongoing funding for palliative program

The support Satch Niemec received as he succumbed to a terminal diagnosis was an "absolute boon" for him and his wife Jude. But the service is struggling without government support.

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The baby bonus just does not work any more

I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)

Bangkok Post

Priest gives sad update about tasered great-grandmother

A mass has been held by the bedside of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who was tasered by a police officer, as she receives end-of-life care.

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Family of elderly woman handcuffed by police at Sydney nursing home wants more accountability

The daughter of a woman with dementia who was handcuffed in a Sydney aged care home is demanding more accountability from police over instances of force being used against residents.

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At Governor’s event, war veteran raises issue about poor access to hospitals under ECHS

Air Vice-Marshal and war veteran S. Swaminathan raised the issue of poor access to medical treatment under the Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme at an event organised by Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi at Raj Bhavan here on Sunday.

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Missing Brit gran who vanished on holiday with husband found dead in Greece

Susan Hart and her Swiss husband Ed had been visiting the island of Kalymnos, in the Aegean sea, when she vanished without a trace leaving the family fearing the worst

Daily Mirror

Six Northumberland private gardens to open this summer to raise money for charity

Six private gardens will open for one day only in aid of HospiceCare North Northumberland

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Six NSW police officers used two sets of handcuffs on a distressed 81-year-old dementia patient

Daughter of the woman says ‘police have learned nothing’

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Nurses in England offered ‘golden hellos’ as trusts try to ease staff crisis

Staff are being promised up to £4,500 to take up – and stay in – hard-to-fill jobs

The Guardian - UK

The ACT's proposed voluntary assisted dying laws have yet to be introduced, but could be the most liberal in the country

The ACT government is expected to introduce laws allowing voluntary assisted dying by the end of this year. For those like Kath Dyason, who has a terminal illness, it can't come soon enough.

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Mental health patients forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment despite government pledge

Many are having to travel long distances to receive NHS help, despite a promise to end this ‘completely unacceptable’ practice

The Guardian - UK

NSW police footage shows officers used two sets of handcuffs on 81-year-old woman with dementia

Exclusive: footage from body-worn camera shows police restraining confused dementia patient Rachel Grahame in 2020

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Police officers being called to aged care homes is 'standard protocol', industry expert says

The family of 95-year-old taser victim, Clare Nowland, maintain a bedside vigil as questions are raised about why NSW Police police were called to her nursing home.

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Nurse shortage ails U.P. health system

While the World Health Organization norm is three nurses per 1,000 population, in Uttar Pradesh, it is just 0.6.

Nottingham Post

Tributes to Nottinghamshire bin man who 'never stopped smiling' during his 47 years on town's streets

Graham Collins, 74, who worked as a bin man in Beeston for 47 years before retiring in 2017 as an incredibly popular member of the community, died on Tuesday, May 16 after a four year long battle with cancer

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Northumberland beauty spot 10K run returns to raise funds for local hospice

The Druridge Bay 10K and Junior Run 2023 are set to go ahead on May 28 with the aim of raising funds for HospiceCare North Northumberland

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Cashless treatment facilities now available to all CGHS beneficiaries at 6 AIIMS

Cashless treatment facilities will now be available to all Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) beneficiaries (serving and pensioners) at six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) located at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh.

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Editorial: Immigration can help solve the nursing shortage

The US nursing workforce is shedding workers. About 100,000 nurses quit or retired during the pandemic, while another 800,000 have signaled an “intent to leave” by 2027. And yet, the country is failing to tap an available group of qualified health-care workers: immigrants. While there’s no single fix for the…

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Outgoing Northumberland County Council civic head raises more than £20,000 for Tynedale Hospice at Home

His successor outlined the charities she would be supporting in the coming year

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Cooma locals say tasering of elderly woman 'disgusting', as police review footage

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland remains in a critical condition at Cooma Base Hospital after the incident on Wednesday, as Cooma locals say other means should have been used to subdue her.

The Guardian - UK

Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations

Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care

The Independent UK

Scottish Liberal Democrat MP’s Bill to give unpaid carers leave to become law

Wendy Chamberlain’s Carer’s Leave Bill cleared the House of Lords on Friday.

The Independent UK

Woman, 50, to become a surrogate mother for same-sex couple

Dawn Allen was unsure if she could do it again until she met Nicky and Dylan

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