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MPs hopeful on Whiston burns unit decision - St Helens Star 30th October 2009
"ST HELENS Labour MPs are hopeful a decision will be made soon to reject proposals to downgrade specialist burns care at Whiston and Alder Hey hospitals.
The campaign to save Whiston Hospital's Burns Unit is gathering momentum. Campaigners have amassed thousands of names on a petition to save Whiston's Burns Unit.
They have taken confidence from their belief that Health Secretary Andy Burnham does not accept a regional review of burns care was carried out correctly. "
Woman suffers horrendous burns after reaction to Boots hair dye - Daily Mail 30th October 2009
"With her face covered in horrific burns and painful blisters, she looks like the victim of a terrible fire.
But Zoe Vernon, 22, suffered these agonising injuries when she used a popular home hair dye kit.
She had to be taken to hospital by ambulance after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the £3.29 hair dye from Boots. "
Burns could heal faster thanks to gel pads that act like 'second skin' - Daily Mail 21st October 2009
"A 'second skin' that speeds up the healing of burns and lessens the risk of deadly infection has been created by British scientists.
The gel-like pads could revolutionise the treatment of burns and diabetic ulcers. Quicker repair also reduces scarring. "
Teenager mother who stubbed out cigarette on her baby daughter's back because she was 'stressed out' is jailed - Daily Mail 5th October 2009
"A teenage mother who repeatedly stubbed a cigarette out on her 15-month-old daughter's back because she was 'stressed out' by the infant crying was jailed for nine months today.
Charlotte Sutton, 19, burned the child's skin three times - scarring her for life - when the toddler started to cry, a court heard."
Everton FC players Phil Jagielka and Tony Hibbert backs the ECHO’s Save Our Burns Units campaign - Liverpool Echo 14th September 2009
EVERTON players have put their weight behind the ECHO’s campaign to safeguard Merseyside burns care.
Defenders Phil Jagielka and Tony Hibbert have come on board to help community campaigners and the ECHO prevent units at Whiston and Alder Hey being downgraded.
The burns victim saved by £60K of 'shark skin' - Daily Mail 12th September 2009
The police arrived at Jean and Edward McNeill's door at 7 o'clock on a Sunday morning. The night before, their teenage daughter Erin had stayed at a friend's house. There had been a fire, explained the officers. Erin was alive but in intensive care.
'It's hard to explain the feeling of utter horror,' recalls Jean, 50. 'It was like the breath had been sucked out of me.'
Alder Hey and Whiston hospitals must wait to see if their burns units survive axing - Liverpool Daily Post 27th August 2009
A CRUCIAL meeting to decide the fate of Merseyside burns care has been postponed until after Christmas.
Anger by campaigners and MPs over creating a burns “supra” centre in Manchester has forced health chiefs to delay a decision on the matter
Alder Hey and Whiston hospitals must wait until after Christmas for burns unit meeting - Liverpool Echo 27th August 2009
A CRUCIAL meeting to decide the fate of Merseyside burns care has been postponed until after Christmas.
Anger by campaigners and MPs over creating a burns “supra” centre in Manchester has forced health chiefs to delay a decision on the matter.
Health minister’s burns care assurances to Merseyside - Liverpool Echo 21st August 2009
A GOVERNMENT minister today gave assurances that Merseyside burns units will not be downgraded.
Health minister Ann Keen has written to the chief executive of Liverpool City Council, Colin Hilton.
Liverpool Echo readers are right behind burns unit campaign - Liverpool Echo 13th July 2009
THOUSANDS of people have responded to the ECHO’s Save Our Burns Units campaign.
More than 3,200 “get involved” coupons have flooded into the offices to show the strength of support for safeguarding burns injury care at Alder Hey and Whiston hospitals.
Liverpool Alder Hey burns unit nurses fear for the future - Liverpool Echo 3rd July 2009
NURSES at Alder Hey’s burns unit said they fear for their jobs after it was left off a shortlist to become a super centre.
The ECHO is campaigning to safeguard Merseyside’s world-class burns care, provided by centres at Alder Hey and Whiston hospitals.
Knotty Ash man owes his life to Liverpool Alder Hey’s burns unit - Liverpool Echo 3rd July 2009
CRAIG Kelly was severely burned as a baby when he pulled a kettle of boiling water over himself.
At the age of 16 months, he was rushed to Alder Hey, where he spent two months in the burns unit.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham gives new hope to Merseyside burns campaign - Liverpool Daily Post 25th June 2009
HEALTH Secretary Andy Burnham will step into the row over the fate of Merseyside's burns units by examining whether crucial facts and figures are false.
Mr Burnham will investigate complaints that health bosses have seriously under-estimated the number of patients that will be affected if the units at Whiston and Alder Hey are downgraded.
Hope for Merseyside burns units as Health Secretary Andy Burnham promised to look into statistics - Liverpool Echo 25th June 2009
MERSEYSIDE MPs have met the health secretary demanding the government looks again at plans to downgrade the burns units at Whiston and Alder Hey hospitals.
They met newly-appointed Andy Burnham in London to appeal against claims that a minimal number of Merseyside patients will be affected by new plans for Liverpool’s specialist units.
MPs hold crunch meeting to save Whiston and Alder Hey burns units - Liverpool Echo 24th June 2009
MERSEYSIDE MPs are holding a crunch meeting with the Health Secretary tonight to try to save the region's world class burns care.\n\nThe group of MP's, including Eddie O'Hara and Derek Twigg, will question Andy Burnham about the future of burns units at Whiston and Alder Hey hospitals.
Liverpool Alder Hey warn of danger in the home from hair care goods - Liverpool Daily Post 2nd June 2009
MORE children are being admitted to hospital with burns partly because of the huge popularity of hair straighteners, a charity will report today.
The number of accidents involving under-fives is down, but in the past 10 years the number getting burned has risen by 50%, the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) revealed in a new report out today.
Liverpool mum: I turned away for a second – enough time for my baby to be burned - Liverpool Daily Post 22nd June 2009
THE mother of a young boy who suffered serious burns after touching her hair straighteners has warned other parents to put the styling tools far out of reach until they have cooled down completely.
Nicky’s hair straighteners had been switched off for five minutes when eight-month-old Jamie grabbed them, but they still burned the front of his leg so badly that he needed a skin graft.
Hair straighteners blamed for big rise in children suffering burns - The Times 22nd June 2009
A rise in the popularity of hair straighteners is partly to blame for the soaring number of children being admitted to hospital with burns, a charity says today.
The number of children hospitalised for burns has risen by more than 50 per cent in the past decade, even though the total number of accidents involving the age group has decreased.
Number of cases of children being burnt by hair straighteners rockets - Daily Mail 22nd June 2009
A growing number of children are being treated in hospital for burns caused by hair straighteners with cases involving under fives rocketing by 50 per cent alone in the last decade, worrying new figures reveal.
Parents are now being urged to keep their straighteners out of reach of children in a bid to stem the rise of accidents as part of a week long campaign starting today.
Holiday from hell for teenage Brit left looking like a 'burns victim' after Turkish spa treatment - Daily Mail 21st June 2009
A teenager on holiday in Turkey was left looking like a 'burns victim' by a treatment at a spa.
Kate Green spent four days in hospital after the session at her four-star hotel went wrong.
The 19-year-old's boyfriend Rhys Hales, 20, had taken her for a week at the Mira Luna Hotel in Gumbet, Bodrum, as a treat.
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