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| Sunday, 04 September 2005 12:56 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk |
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The Royal College of Nursing is pressuring ministers to introduce a full smoking ban, saying they treat people for the devastating effects of the habit every day.
The Public Health White Paper published in November proposed the implementation of a ban on smoking in public places by 2008 but stipulated that pubs not serving food would be exempt from the ban.
As the consultation process comes to an end, the RCN has written to the Department of Health saying that 30 people a day die from the effects of second-hand smoke and demanding a full ban.
RCN general secretary Beverly Malone said: "The issue of whether a pub serves food or not is irrelevant.
"This is about having no choice about breathing in the smoke of others and the devastating effects of passive smoking on health."
The RCN letter was backed by more than 5,000 nurses and supporters.
Yana Richens, a consultant midwife from London, said passive smoking in pregnancy is linked to "low birth weight, premature birth and increased perinatal mortality".
"We have a duty to protect these babies and a public ban on smoking would go a long way to achieving this."
And Sam Barlow, a specialist young person's nurse from Hull, added that a full ban was needed to help youngsters quit.
"As a nurse, I work with youngsters who want to quit and see the conflicts and difficulties imposed on them when they visit pubs and clubs."
But Simon Clark, director of smokers' lobby group Forest, cast doubt on the claims second-hand smoke was causing deaths.
"About 18 months ago we were talking about 1,000 a year and now it is 11,000. I think they pluck these numbers out of the air."
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| Thursday, 14 July 2005 09:56 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk |
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Britain’s neonatal units are struggling to cope with admissions of sick and premature babies, as survey has found.
A study by the charity Bliss found that more than 70 per cent of neonatal units had turned away admissions at some point in the last six months, with most blaming a lack of nurses.
Infant mortality rates in the UK are among the worst in Europe, with death rates rising last year from 5.2 deaths per 1,000 to 5.3 deaths per 1,000.
And perinatal (up to seven days after birth) mortality was 8.5 per 1,000, the worst level since 1996.
Bliss says that £75m would pay for an extra 2,700 nurses and could save up to 500 babies a year.
The survey looked at 153 neonatal units across the country, with 95 per cent saying that they admitted more babies than they felt they could cope with.
Rob Williams, chief executive of Bliss, said: "More and more babies are being born prematurely. Each year, more are surviving.
"This report puts the spotlight on a health service that remains severely under-resourced even while other parts of the NHS are seeing big improvements."
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| Monday, 17 January 2005 11:47 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk |
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Professor George Knox, emeritus professor at the University of Birmingham, claims that most childhood cancers are "probably" down to prenatal exposure to industrial and environmental pollutants, most likely to have been inhaled by the mother during pregnancy.
Although not conclusive, Professor George Knox the author of the study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health believes the threat is real.
But cancer experts believe the research is heavily flawed and urge caution.
The author based his findings on a chemical emissions map for the UK, produced by the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) for 2001, and details of all children who had died from leukaemia and other cancers before their 16th birthday in Great Britain between 1953 and 1980.
To compensate for the time lag between the production of the map and the era covered by the death register, only those children dying between 1966 and 1980 were included in the study.
When all the data had been compiled and the risks calculated, children born within a 1 km radius of emissions hotspots of particular chemicals were between two and four times as likely to die of cancer before reaching the age of 16, as other children.
Proximity to emissions of 1,3-butadiene and carbon monoxide carried the highest risks.
"Most childhood cancers are probably initiated by close perinatal encounters with one or more of these high emissions sources," concludes the author.
The low atmospheric levels of these substances suggest that the mother may breathe them in, with carcinogens passing across the placenta, he ventures.
But he adds "effective direct exposures in early infancy, or through breast milk, or even pre-conceptually, cannot be excluded”.
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