Patients in Scottish households that do not have an Internet connection will now be able to access health advice and other important health-related information from the comfort of their homes --- thanks to the launch of a new digital TV channel!

While ministers, on one hand, are preparing for the third reading of the Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament next week, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has, on the other hand, warned that bill underscores the risk of creating "a new and expensive bureaucracy and fragmenting care system"!

Cliff Robinson, 74, cares for two adult mentally disabled children in their 40s, and is one of a number of individuals asking the government to pay families for caring for their disabled relatives just like they pay for those who are placed in the care of non-family caregivers. In 1975, Mr. Robinson took his two children and another boy he was told he could get care for under the DPB (domestic purpose benefit).

Investors of Vital Healthcare Property Trust may listen to today how much money they shall obtain through a projected $238.9 million contract for the NZX- scheduled trust to get bigger into Australia.

Vital is New Zealand's biggest scheduled expert medical property-owner and has a contract; put through investor endorsement, to purchase 12 hospitals, surgical and psychiatric services.

Bold and daring snorkelers were successful in steering clear of becoming fish food during a world record endeavor at Great Barrier Reef.

The Magnetic Island world record challenge lured 23 naked snorkelers and 10 non-snorkeling nude swimmers aged between 19 and 60.

Arrangers had anticipated 100 to join in the attempt.

The man that had been sacked last year as Otago District Health Board Chairman after it was found that almost $17 million had been stolen from it is astounded, since one of the fraudsters is already out of jail.

Richard Thomson, who continues to remain a board member, said that he was taken aback to learn that Kerry Harford was home.