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Daily digest August 11 2015

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Health cuts will hit north of England hardest, RCN warns

The north of England will be hardest hit under government cuts to vital health services, unions have warned.

The Royal College of Nursing said the loss of £200 million from the public health budget had created ‘inequality in funding’, the Mirror reports. 

Some of the poorest areas of England will suffer cuts of almost £14.75 million to services for children, older people and victims of domestic abuse. 

The North East and Cumbria will be ‘disproportionately disadvantaged’, according to the RCN, and school nurse, child health, suicide prevention and domestic abuse services are all likely to be hit.

Read more on The Mirror website

Dying woman’s wedding ring stolen in hospital, daughter claims

A woman claims her late mother’s gold wedding band was stolen on the day she died at Royal Blackburn Hospital. 

Lillian Walmsley said her mother Kitty Turnbull was wearing the ring, given to her by her late husband Charlie, on the day she died, but when she went to collect her mother’s belongings it was missing. Her mother had been admitted just weeks before her 100th birthday with an infection, the Mail Online reports.

Ms Walmsley, who was left the jewellery in her mother’s will, said: ‘The ring has gone missing between the Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. She had not taken it off in 70 years. I couldn’t believe it had gone.’

It is the third recent case of jewellery being stolen from patients at the Lancashire hospital.

Read more on the Mail Online

Presley’s private nurse releases memoirs 

Elvis Presley’s private nurse is set to release a book documenting her experiences with the late rock’n’roll star and his family at Graceland, The Guardian reports.

Letetia Henley Kirk, from West Tennessee in the United States, reportedly lived on the grounds of Presley’s Memphis home with her husband and two daughters from 1972 to 1983.

Ms Kirk said she had no intentions of writing about her time with Presley until she spoke to fans at an event in Memphis last year. ‘I realised how hungry the fans are for stories about what life was like during a normal day at Graceland,’ she said.

‘They already know the stories about drugs and sex and life on the road. They want to know what Elvis was like at Graceland during his private time. That’s what this book is.’

Read more on The Guardian website