Anthea Call has taken the helm as Branch Manager of RV Care, a newly relaunched domiciliary care service covering west Cornwall.
Based at Roseland Parc in the village of Tregony, near Truro, in Cornwall, Anthea has responsibility for the service which provides care and support to residents of Roseland Parc retirement village and to clients in [...]
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New manager for newly relaunched care service
Thames Water: Key milestone to protect 800 West Ham homes from flooding
A tunnelling machine called ‘Theodora’ finished digging a two-mile long sewer, 2.8 metres in diameter, under East London today, to help protect 800 West Ham homes from flooding.
Breakthough: ‘Dora the Bora’ comes home
‘Dora the Bora’, as she’s known in West Ham, has spent seven months drilling the tunnel which passes under the Jubilee line, Forest [...]
Nutritional experts say hospital food ticks all the right boxes
FOOD is an essential part of patient care – and dieticians in Cambridge are working hard to ensure a ‘robust and exciting’ menu is offered to all hospital patients, whatever their needs. Working practise and success of this theory is demonstrated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, largely due to the vision and understanding of Lifespan Catering Services.
“FOOD [...]
Can the Nose be Reduced in size by Rhinoplasty?
Having a large nose can pose a serious aesthetic defect to the overall appearance of the face of any person. It is normal for such a person to seek medical assistance for correcting such a condition, for very obvious reasons. The large nose problem is in fact very common and can be classified into three [...]
USA Study Reveals Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists detected mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released today.
About a quarter of these fish were found to contain mercury at levels exceeding the criterion for the protection of people who consume average amounts of fish, [...]
SNORKEL rice beats the monsoon
Monsoon season floods in Asia can cause widespread devastation of rice crops. Some strains of rice have adapted to this environmental stress by developing the ability to undergo rapid stem elongation. Normally this type of rice grows to about a metre high, but when flooding occurs, the stem undergoes rapid and dramatic internode elongation and [...]
World Health organisation – Safety of pandemic vaccines
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 6
GENEVA — WHO is aware of some media reports that have expressed concern about the safety of vaccines for pandemic influenza. The public needs to be reassured that regulatory procedures in place for the licensing of pandemic vaccines, including procedures for expediting regulatory approval, are rigorous and [...]
New research: the scandal of taxpayer-funded lobbying
A new TPA report, released on Monday, used the Freedom of Information Act to expose the full scale of the really scandalous way in which the Government and its agencies spent over £37 million in 2007-08 on lobbying and political campaigning. This is not just a waste of money, it is a perversion of the democratic [...]