All Health inequalities articles – Page 34
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News
Local government to make £600m extra efficiency savings
Local government has been asked to provide an extra £600m in efficiency savings next year.
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DH team launched to reduce infant deaths
The Department of Health has launched a national support team to reduce differences in infant mortality rates in the face of a looming deadline.
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UK government warns over EU health plans
Patients should not be able to charge the NHS for hospital services they receive abroad without first seeking permission from their primary care trust, the government has said.
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Hospital trust opens GP centre
A hospital trust in Warwickshire has become the first to take over the running of a GP-led health centre.
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CommentMichael Marmot on why health inequalities matter
The Department of Health’s anti-obesity Change4Life scheme may work wonders. I hope it does.
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CommentDavid and Hilary Woodhead on combining NHS efforts with local social care
A recent family lunch led to discussions about new jobs and the challenges of work, punctuated by the demands of restless kids and attentive waiters. Despite interruptions, the adults persevered.
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NewsGP quality bonuses do not reflect patient satisfaction
Despite uniformly high scores in the quality and outcomes framework bonus scheme, GPs in some areas are receiving 63 per cent more complaints from patients than others.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS turns to marketing to change public health attitudes
Taking lessons from commercial advertising, PCTs can use social marketing to help get health messages across effectively to their local populations. By Daloni Carlisle
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Blogs
Death in Swaziland
Death is a funny thing. In almost four years as a performance manager and information manager in the NHS, I never really experienced death.
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Community
Advertising guilt
There is nothing like parenthood for laying on a massive guilt trip - something the Department of Health harnessed for a series of adverts in which small children talk about how they are not as scared of the dark or monsters under the bed as they are of their mum ...
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News
MPs launch inquiry into cancer treatment inequality
MPs are to launch an inquiry into “postcode lotteries” in cancer treatment.
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News'Distressing failures' in NHS care for people with learning disabilities
A report into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities has uncovered “significant and distressing” failures in services across health and social care.
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CommentMichael White on the effect of unemployment on health
A flurry of excitement hit the Commons press gallery when it was rumoured health minister Ben Bradshaw had said unemployment would be good for British men.
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NewsHealthcare Commission criticises older people's mental healthcare
Older people with mental health concerns are often denied the full range of services offered to the young
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News
NHS told to help staff get healthier
NHS organisations have been told to follow private companies’ example to help their staff get fitter - and save the health service an estimated £1bn a year.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat can turn the tide of the obesity epidemic?
By mid-century the cost to the NHS of weight related health problems could double to more than £8bn and a quarter of UK children may be obese. Emma Dent asks what is being done about a huge challenge
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News
Call for more research as cancer survival rates rise
The NHS cancer plan has improved survival rates in England but wide regional variations remain.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe north-south alcohol divide
The annual cost of alcohol harm to the NHS is nearly £3bn - and rising. Around 6 per cent of all hospital admissions in 2006-07 were related to alcohol and this figure is increasing by 80,000 every year, according to the government alcohol strategy Safe, Sensible, Social.
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News
NHS faces up to 1,000 lawsuits over prison drug programmes
The NHS may have to pay up to £3.5m in damages to prisoners who claim they received poor support in giving up drugs.
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Comment
Michael White on health inequalities
Late Sunday afternoon I made myself comfortable to read the latest Commons select committee report on health inequalities before cooking our planned supper of grilled fish and greens.