Scotland News
News and updates from across every CLAPA region
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Grandparents | Research Advertisements |
Grandparents in Scotland Wanted for New Research Project
Do you have a grandchild with cleft lip and/or palate? Do you live in Scotland? If so, we want to hear from you!
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CLAPA Blogs |
Awareness Week 2017 – What Have We Been Up To?
As Awareness Week 2017 draws to a close, we look back on some of this week's highlights and how we'll be taking this forward throughout the next year.
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NHS Cleft Services | Scotland Surgical Services Review |
Scotland Surgical Review: A Transition Plan
NHS Scotland has released a Transition Plan to detail how the agreed move to a single service for cleft surgery in Scotland will work. They have asked CLAPA to help with distributing this to all families in Scotland who may be affected by this move.
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Fundraising Stories | Fundraising: Challenges | Your Stories |
#FundraisingFriday – William sets off for Kilimanjaro
A huge good luck to William, who is flying out today! William is heading to Tanzania, in order to start his attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain!
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Staff Blog |
Huge News!
This is the first blog I’ve written for a while but I’m writing it at a very exciting time for CLAPA. We have recently found out that an application we submitted to the Big Lottery Fund was successful! The grant of £323,076 will enable us to continue to employ Regional Coordinators in the East, Central and South East of England.
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Research Advertisements |
Surgery and Anaesthesia Focus Groups
Surgery and anaesthesia are only performed when it is decided that the benefits are greater than the risks. Labratory and clinical research has shown that the addition of Xenon, a rare anaesthetic gas, may improve anaesthesia for young children.
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Research Advertisements |
Research: decision making in cleft lip and/or palate treatment
Would you be interested in taking part in research into decision making in cleft lip and/or palate treatment?
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Fundraising: Runs |
CLAPA Half Marathons!
Support CLAPA by running a HALF MARATHON this year. We need runners to join #TEAMCLAPA in 2017.
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Scotland Surgical Services Review |
Scotland Surgical Review: Decision Made
Following a lengthy period of review and consultation, the decision has been made today by the Scottish Government to centralise the majority of cleft surgical services to one site in Glasgow. Other cleft services in Scotland will not be affected.
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Staff Blog |
CLAPA – Finding Your Feet
It’s been 2 months since I joined CLAPA so its time I wrote a blog to introduce myself and let you know what I’ve been up to! For those of you that don’t know, my name is Rebecca and I am covering the role of Scotland Support Officer while the lovely Melanie is on maternity leave
