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From Keighley News, May 7th, 2018

PATIENTS admitted to Airedale Hospital at weekends are more likely to die than those getting medical help during the week, according to NHS figures. NHS Digital measures mortality as a ratio between weekend and midweek patients, and found the death rate for all patients was higher at the weekend at Airedale, and at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's. Patients who were admitted as an emergency were also more likely to die on Saturday and Sunday. In 2015, health secretary Jeremy Hunt attempted to address the “weekend effect” with the introduction of seven-day working contracts for doctors, which led to the first all-out doctors’ strike in NHS history.
 

From Yorkshire Post, May 4th, 2018
Written by Arj Singh

The majority of appeals against disability benefit assessments successfully overturned the original decision last year in Yorkshire and Humber, prompting concerns that the process is flawed and is leaving the long-term ill and severely disabled wrongly out of pocket. There were 7,510 appeals against decisions made by Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessors last year, of which 4,770 determinations were overturned, official figures obtained by Labour MP John Grogan through a parliamentary question showed. Mr Grogan told The Yorkshire Post he was worried that the figures meant ill and disabled people were being treated like the Windrush generation, who were wrongly denied benefits and threatened with deportation after getting caught up in efforts to remove illegal immigrants.
 

From Keighley News, May 4th, 2018
Written by David Knights

KEIGHLEY MP John Grogan was saddled with yet another visit to a local charity. He thoroughly enjoyed his visit to Haworth Riding for the Disabled but declined an offer to ride one of their horses. As well as witnessing the charity’s activities for disabled adults and children, Mr Grogan learned how two of its riders are competing in next year’s Special Olympics World Games. T-Jay Wilson and James Reed-Griffiths after raise thousands of pounds each to help with Bradford Disability Sport and Leisure’s cost of sending five athletes from the district. Mr Grogan was accompanied on his visit by two students from Bradford’s twin town in Germany, Hamm.
 

From Keighley News, May 3rd, 2018
Written by Miran Rahman

A KEIGHLEY-born former communications chief to the Prime Minister officially opened a new town centre drop-in centre for people with dementia and their carers. Alastair Campbell cut the ribbon in the Airedale Shopping Centre on Saturday, marking the start of the latest phase of work by charity Dementia Friendly Keighley (DFK). The unit in Brunswick Arcade has been open since last June, operating as an information and advice point but from now on it will provide a safe place for those with dementia to spend time while their carers take a break.