Bladder cancer care ‘variable’

Health: Bladder cancer patients face a “postcode lottery” of care depending on where they live, health officials warned yesterday.

There is a wide variation in diagnosis rates and treatments available to people with the disease, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said.

And evidence suggested that people with the condition also had a worse patient experience than those with other cancers, the institute added.

Growth ‘to slow as confidence dims’

Economy: Growth will slow in the second half of the year as the effect of improved confidence and better credit conditions starts to wear off, the Confederation of British Industry has predicted.

The group today expected expansion to ease to 0.7 per cent in the third quarter and 0.6 per cent in the final quarter, after 0.8 per cent growth in the first two quarters.

It warned of “uncertainty” posed by a Yes vote on Scottish independence.

Teenage worker taken into care

Exploitation: A teenager is to be taken into care after a family court judge heard yesterday that she worked in the kitchen of her mother’s factory from the age of nine.

Recorder Alison Brooks concluded that the 13-year-old girl would be better off in long-term foster care, following a hearing in a family court in Croydon, south London.