Healthbytes: Fair Deal update, skin cancer and more

Want to know the top five reasons why children worry? What co-op you can get a free health check at? How many adverts your children were exposed to during the World Cup?

Margaret Hawkins

5 September 2018

Therapi.

Purple bales with CMRF.

Farmers urged not to be skin chancers.

Fair deal update

The Government has approved a proposal to change how farms and businesses are treated under the Nursing Home Support Scheme (the Fair Deal Scheme).

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