More than 2,000 British holidaymakers have confirmed that their top fear when travelling abroad is ‘getting ill and ending up in a foreign hospital’, according to new, independent research from on-call telephone interpreter service, i-interpret4u. These findings are also reflective of recent headlines which revealed that hospitals in Spain are more concerned with money than medicine as UK taxpayers who have the misfortune to need emergency treatment while abroad are being ripped off or indeed, turned away if they don’t have adequate travel insurance. [Read more…]
Us Girls Alive launch
Department of Health provides £400,000 to fund ground-breaking new female-focused volunteer programme targeting disadvantaged communities
Us Girls, the female-focused sports programme, will be rolling out a pioneering new national scheme designed to improve the well-being of young women living in 15 selected areas of health need in England. The initiative, Us Girls Alive, is a new strand of the existing Us Girls sports participation programme – which is led by the sports charity StreetGames. It will support young female volunteers to assist in the development of Us Girls Alive clubs and the signposting to local physical activity programmes. The scheme will run until September 2015. [Read more…]