June 2019

NHS Wales and care patients given new ‘citizen voice’ body

Image copyright sturti/Getty Images Image caption Community health councils – which currently speak up for patients – will be replaced A new “citizen voice” body to represent patients in the NHS and social care is to be set up, in new legislation proposed by the Welsh Government. Health Minister Vaughan Gething said it would be

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Asian shares mixed as investors look ahead to Fed rates

Asian shares were mixed Monday amid a wait-and-see attitude about the direction of interest rates and the trade dispute between the U.S. and China. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.2% to 21,157.12. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.4% to 6,530.90, while South Korea’s Kospi edged down nearly 0.2% to 2,091.96. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.7%

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Overflowing Great Lakes pose new threat for endangered bird

Peering through a spotting scope mounted on a tripod, researcher Alice Van Zoeren notices a piping plover skittering across a sandy, pebble-strewn Lake Michigan beach and hopping into a nest, swapping places with its mate. “Nest exchange! Did you see it?” Van Zoeren calls to colleagues. Male and female plovers take turns incubating their eggs,

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