All Children's services articles – Page 41
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Andy Burnham backs sunbed ban for under 18s
The government has backed a call to ban under 18s from using sunbeds at tanning salons.
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Local breastfeeding support
Commissioning Local Breastfeeding Support Services, published in October last year by the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families, aims to assist commissioners and primary care trusts in “providing coherent services that will promote breastfeeding and reduce inequalities”, as set out in Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures – ...
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Two SHAs secure swine flu jab deals
NHS North East and NHS London have reached regional deals with GPs to vaccinate children between six months and five years against swine flu. It comes after negotiators failed to reach a national deal.
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Call for NHS role in child detention care
The Royal Colleges of Paediatrics and Child Health, GPs and Psychiatrists, as well as the UK Faculty of Public Health, have said detention of children and their families in removal centres for failed asylum seekers causes “significant harm” and should be ended without delay.
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Hospital criticised ahead of Baby P report
Baby Peter could have been saved if managers at a hospital where he was treated had listened to fears raised by senior doctors more than a year before the toddler’s death, a consultant paediatrician has claimed.
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London hospital managers cleared of bullying
A report into the handling of concerns by doctors involved in the Baby P case will clear hospital managers of bullying and harassment, HSJ understands.
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Swine flu virus may have infected a third of children
Experts say the swine flu virus may have hit thousands of children without them even knowing it - with as many as a third of school-age youngsters contracting it in parts of England.
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Children's mental health provision criticised
Children in Wales are being let down by inadequate mental health services, with some young patients treated on adult wards, a multi-agency report has claimed.
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Under-fives to receive swine flu jab
The NHS is to begin vaccinating healthy children under the age of five against swine flu, it has been confirmed.
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Swine flu could lead to shortage of children's intensive care beds
The number of children suffering from swine flu and other respiratory infections this winter might cause a shortage of NHS intensive care beds.
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Could a swine flu surge see a slump in targets?
A sustained outbreak of swine flu will put any region’s critical care services under pressure and a pandemic could have national consequences on workforce and resources. Will normal targets survive the winter unscathed? Alison Moore reports
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North east London hospital shake-up consultation coming soon
A consultation on the reconfiguration of hospital services in north east London is expected to start before the end of the year.
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Ambitious reconfiguration plan abandoned
One of the most ambitious service reconfiguration programmes in England is likely to end this month, with a board decision expected to keep the status quo.
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HSJ Knowledge
Childhood obesity
In some London boroughs a third of children leaving primary school at the age of 11 are overweight or obese. We know overweight children are much more likely to become obese adults, so this major public health problem must be tackled early. The government’s child obesity public service agreement target ...
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Childhood obesity 'levelling off'
The rapid rise in child obesity may be levelling off, according to figures.
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Recession is no excuse to cut sexual health services, PCTs told
Primary care trusts have been urged not to use the recession as an excuse to cut funding for sexual health services.
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Probe launched into cervical cancer vaccine death
An urgent investigation to determine why a 14-year-old girl died shortly after receiving the cervical cancer vaccine has been launched.
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Swine flu vaccine trial begins
A trial of new swine flu vaccines has seen the first British children receive the jabs.
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Expand measles and hepatitis B vaccination programmes, NICE urges
NHS vaccination programmes against measles and hepatitis B in the under-19 age group must be expanded, says the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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PCTs need to 'improve their performance' on youth mental health
Primary care trusts need to “improve their performance” on providing child and adolescent mental health services for children and young people with learning disabilities.