Plans to improve care for people with epilepsy in Wales have been announced in a strategy the assembly government believes is the UK's first of its kind. Measures to reduce the incidence of epilepsy, help people to self-manage their condition and ensure prompt diagnosis and treatment are included.
Doctors hope to use the body's own nerves to bridge the gap in the spinal cord left by paralysing injuries. Dr John Martin, from Columbia University, New York, took a nerve leaving the spine just above an injury, and reattached it below.
In its third annual report to Parliament on the state of social care, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) explores the experiences of people not deemed eligible for social care services.
The Every Disabled Child Matters campaign has added its voice to national charity Contact a Family's call on government to give families with disabled children a winter fuel allowance, which would match that currently paid to pensioners.
Thank you all for being here and thanks also to the Guardian Public Services Summit for their kind invitation to speak today. As you know, the theme of this year's Summit is how relationships are altering, and dynamics are changing, in the delivery of public services. Today's public service providers are returning to that theme again and again.
LIBERAL Democrats in Hinckley & Bosworth are calling on local MPs David Tredinnick and Stephen Dorrell to explain why they sat on the fence when a cash settlement for Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council that is below the average rise given to other councils was agreed by the House of Commons.