VISITORS to Whiston Hospital will notice a new development at the site as the multi-million pound rebuilding programme moves another step forward.
A new pedestrian footbridge has been installed across Warrington Road, linking the entrance of the new hospital with the multi-storey car park. It will open in 2010.
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The government said last night it may send a new management team into Haringey council, to take over the running of social services in the borough where Baby P died at the hands of his mother and two men.
Sources close to Ed Balls said the step would be considered when an independent report into the state of social services in the borough reaches ministers on December 1.
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Britain has one of the best records on child deaths. One case blasted out of all proportion can undo years of good
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am not sure whether it is hypocrisy, ignorance or indifference that allows a large proportion of the British public to scream indignation at the death of Baby P on the one hand, while at the same time victimising the next generation (Britain in danger of demonising its children, claims Barnardo's, November 17).
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"Presumed consent" for organ donation would risk destroying the trust that patients and their families have in doctors, a government-appointed taskforce said yesterday, unanimously rejecting a proposal which has the support of the prime minister and chief medical officer.
Gordon Brown immediately made it clear that he still supported presumed consent, which would mean that every UK citizen would be assumed to be willing to donate their organs in the event of sudden death, unless they had specifically opted out by placing their name on a register.
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It happens even in the best-run governments, though not very often. An independent committee tasked with providing an urgently-needed answer comes up with the wrong one, the answer officials didn't expect.
It happened last year on the reclassification of cannabis and again yesterday when the organ donation taskforce reported to the health secretary, Alan Johnson, on the best way to improve the UK's poor rate of organ transplants obtained from dead bodies.
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For every three people who will benefit from an organ transplant this year, a fourth will die while waiting for a match to become available. More than 7,000 will simply wait, enduring another year of painfully restricted life. Put brutally, not enough people are dying who have healthy organs that they or their families are willing to donate. Earlier this year, the government's Organ Donation Taskforce recommended improvements in the way organ donation is managed. They will be fully implemented, and in five years' time should have raised transplants by 25%.
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Advocates of a presumed consent system of organ donation are ignoring the weakness of the evidence
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Taskforce advises against shift from volunteer system, but Gordon Brown says proposal may be revisited if number of donors does not rise significantly
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Further reading and organisations related to the donation debate
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How many people are on the waiting list for an organ transplant in the UK?
At the end of March 7,655 were on the active list. Most (7,006) were waiting for a kidney; 377 were waiting for a heart and/or lungs; 259 needed a liver.
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An unlicensed tanning drug is being sold illegally on the internet in defiance of warnings from the government's regulatory agency that the product puts users at risk of serious side-effects.
Melanotan is a synthetic hormone developed by skin cancer researchers that has not been tested for safety, quality or effectiveness. The drug is being sold over the internet and in some tanning salons and bodybuilding gyms. It works by increasing levels of melanin, which is the body's natural protection from the sun.
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Immigration minister Phil Woolas has attacked lawyers and charities working on behalf of asylum seekers, accusing them of undermining the law and "playing the system". In an interview with the Guardian, Woolas described the legal professionals and NGO workers as "an industry", and said most asylum seekers were not fleeing persecution but were economic migrants.
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Detailed documents chronicling every tragic moment in the short and horrific life of Baby P can be revealed for the first time today.
The comprehensive file gives a hitherto-unseen insight into the transformation of the 17-month-old toddler from a healthy infant into the victim of systematic and horrific abuse which was repeatedly missed by social workers. They chart every significant day in the youngster's life from birth to death.
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With slightly unfortunate timing, that great annual carnival of caring and tears, Children in Need night, has been followed in short order by a survey revealing that the British have distinctly ambivalent feelings towards children.
Commissioned by the Barnardo's charity, the opinion poll recorded that almost half of those questioned believed the nation's children were an increasing threat to each other and to adults while, even more bizarrely, 43 per cent felt that grown-ups needed more protection from the young. The amount of crime ascribed to children was four times higher than the true figure.
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Gordon Brown said he was still prepared to push ahead with new rules presuming people are happy to donate organs after death, despite the plans being rejected yesterday by an expert task force he appointed. The Prime Minister is backing a change in the law to assume patients have given automatic "presumed consent" for their body parts to be used after their death, unless they decide to opt out.
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Why are we asking this now?
Yesterday the Government accepted a report from a group of expert medical advisers which recommended against Britain adopting an "opt-out" system of organ donation, to boost transplant rates. Although widely trailed in advance, the decision is a surprise because an opt-out system has received vigorous backing from the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Chief Medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, as well as other organisations such as the British Medical Association.
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Health officials have warned the public not to inject a synthetic hormone, which is sold illegally online, to artificially top up their tans.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which regulates medicines and ensures they are safe to use, said more and more British people have begun using Melanotan, a synthetic hormone that encourages the body to produce melanin, the body's natural protection from the sun, which also darkens the skin.
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Plans for a new opt-out system of organ donation have been shelved after experts advising the Government cast doubt on whether it would work.
Gordon Brown said he was willing to try out the recommendations of the Organ Donation Taskforce, which call for improvements to be made without a change in the law.
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Scientists have established how bowel cancer turns aggressive, leading the way for potential new drug treatments, it has been revealed.
Researchers in Cardiff and Glasgow are behind a study which showed how a particular protein stimulates tumours, making them more likely to spread.
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