Cyclist gets 3D-printed face after drunk driver left him with third-degree burns

A cyclist who received severe third-degree burns to his head after being struck by a drunk driver has been fitted with a printed 3D face.Dave Richards, 75, was given a 3D prosthetic by the NHS that fits the space on his face and mimics his hair colour, eye colour and skin. His face received full-thickness burns after a speeding drunk driver hit him while he was out cycling with friends.He said he was “lucky to survive” the crash which also damaged his back and pelvis and caused him to break several ribs on one side of his body.While recovering, he was referred to reconstructive prosthetics, which has opened the Bristol 3D medical centre, the first of its kind in the UK to have 3D scanning, design and printing in a single NHS location

Foster carers across England facing widespread racism, sector leader says

Social workers are experiencing unprecedented levels of racism, while foster carers whose ethnicity differs from the children they care for have been accosted in the street, a fostering leader has said as he called on the government to take action.Harvey Gallagher, the chief executive of the Nationwide Association of Fostering Providers (NAFP), said there was growing concern about the “impact of racism, extremism and far-right sentiment” on foster children, carers and social workers.“In recent months, fostering services have reported increasing challenges, including incidents of racial hate directed towards foster carers from diverse ethnicities and the children in their care,” he said in a public statement sent to the government this week.He said that, after hearing anecdotal reports of young people from BAME backgrounds feeling unsafe and foster carers being accosted in the street, NAFP organised a meeting of 35 fostering agencies across England to discuss the issue.“I was really shocked at what I heard

Ministers warned not to scapegoat prison staff over mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu

Ministers have been warned against scapegoating prison staff as they struggle to contain the political fallout of the mistaken release of an asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl.As David Lammy, the justice secretary, announced an inquiry and blamed “human error” for the accidental freeing of Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford on Friday, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has questioned why a single member of staff has been “unjustly” suspended.Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, also said that it would be “very easy to throw an individual at Chelmsford under the bus for this” when it was a systemic problem.After Lammy said that a stringent inventory would be introduced to stop further mistakes at release, governors have said that “a checklist won’t cut it”.The former Metropolitan police deputy commissioner Lynne Owens will chair the investigation into why the Ethiopian national was freed on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

‘Gross failure’ led to deaths of mother and baby in Prestwich home birth

When Jennifer Cahill went into labour with her second child at home in summer last year, she thought that the delivery, assisted by two midwives and with her husband by her side, would be a relatively simple one. Within 24 hours, however, she was dead, and her newborn daughter was fighting for her life after experiencing “horrors that should be consigned to a Victorian-age nightmare”.Cahill, 34, who was an international export manager, died after her baby, Agnes Lily, was born in the early hours of 3 June last year at her home in Prestwich, north of Manchester.She suffered a haemorrhage and lost five pints of blood, or almost half the blood in her body, owing to a tear between her vagina and anus. She was taken to hospital, but went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance, and died from multiple organ failure the next day

Men need twice as much exercise as women to lower heart disease risk, study finds

Men may need to exercise twice as much as women to achieve the same reduction in coronary heart disease risk, according to researchers, who say healthy living guidelines should take account of the sex differences.Scientists analysed physical activity records from more than 80,000 people and found that the risk of heart disease fell 30% in women who clocked up 250 minutes of exercise each week. In contrast, men needed to reach 530 minutes, or nearly nine hours, a week to see the same effect.The study builds on previous work that suggests women benefit more than men from the same amount of exercise, but that women are generally less physically active and less likely to meet recommended exercise targets.Under NHS guidelines, men and women aged 16 to 64 should take at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise, each week, combined with muscle-strengthening activities at least twice a week

NHS trust pleads guilty after teenage girl absconded from 24-hour care and killed herself

An NHS trust has pleaded guilty to failures over the avoidable death of a teenage girl who killed herself after absconding from 24-hour supervision under its care.Ellame Ford-Dunn, 16, who suffered with severe mental health problems, died on 20 March 2022, minutes after leaving the Bluefin acute children’s ward in Worthing hospital, part of University hospitals Sussex NHS trust (UHSussex).The supervising agency nurse watched Ellame leave the ward, but did not follow her because she said she had been instructed not to leave the ward if a patient absconded, Brighton magistrates court was told.On Monday, the trust pleaded guilty to a failure to provide safe care and treatment resulting in avoidable harm. In mitigation it said the acute ward was not equipped to deal with vulnerable mental health patients, but the trust had accepted Ellame because of a “growing crisis nationally” over the shortage of mental health beds for children and adolescents