Daily roundup 1 November: Blood donors, hospital trust and therapy trial

Young people from ethnic minority communities are being encouraged to give blood as part of a major campaign to boost dwindling stocks. The campaign by NHS Blood and Transplant and MOBO comes as data shows just three per cent of donors who gave blood in the last 12 months are of black or Asian heritage and over 50 per cent of all current blood donors are aged 45 and over.


The trust responsible for one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals will be placed in special measures after it was rated inadequate. The BBC reports that the Care Quality Commission told St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that services had deteriorated in the past two years.


An online treatment will be trialled to tackle chronic fatigue syndrome in young people. ITV News reports the trial will include more than 700 children and will follow a 2012 Netherlands version to find out if online-only home treatment is viable for use on the NHS.


A key lawyer from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has resigned, it is understood. The BBC reports that Toby Fisher, one of the first three barristers appointed to the inquiry, said he wanted to stand down in August. However, a spokesman for the inquiry would not comment on specifics and Fisher declined to comment.?


Doncaster Children's Services Trust has teamed up with health, housing, education and community agencies to launch a website to support people affected by domestic abuse in the borough every year. The new portal has been funded by Growing Futures - a £3.1m project led by the trust to reduce domestic abuse and its effects on Doncaster's children.


Former National Children's Bureau chief executive Sir Paul Ennals has been appointed as the new independent chair of Gateshead Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). Ennals, who has also previously been chair of the Children's Workforce Development Council and is currently chair of both Haringey LSCB since May 2014 and of South Tyneside LSCB since September 2015, takes up the position this week.