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Athletes take caffeine to enhance performance - BMJ
A third of UK track and field athletes and 60 per cent of competitive cyclists take caffeine to enhance performance, according to a study published in BMJ Clinical Evidence.
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Patientline goes into administration
NHS bedside telephone and entertainment provider Patientline has gone into administration and has suspended trading on the stock exchange.
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Scotland may need transfer service for pregnant women
Scotland should look at the need to establish a service to co-ordinate transfers of pregnant women in labour or close to giving birth from one unit to another, a report from NHS Quality Improvement Scotland has said.
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Boards 'need sexual health representative'
Primary care trusts should have a board member responsible for sexual health, a report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV has said. It also said commitment was needed to ensure improvements in sexual health services moved beyond clinical work to reducing stigma and social exclusion.It added ...
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Fire at University College London Hospitals
Ambulances are being temporarily diverted from University College London Hospitals foundation trust accident and emergency departments today after a fire last night.The fire broke out in the trust's Rosenheim building at around 2.30am today.
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Trainee doctors more satisfied with training, survey shows
Trainee doctors are more satisfied with their training than they were a year ago, a survey by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board has revealed.
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West Sussex PCT 'disappointed' over reconfiguration decision
The chief executive of West Sussex primary care trust has said he is disappointed that the local council has decided to refer a reconfiguration decision to the health secretary.
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Royal Free reports year without central line infections
Royal Free Hampstead trust has reported it has not had any central line catheter-related bloodstream infections for a year.
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Auditor general for Wales on home oxygen services
The NHS in Wales was not sufficiently prepared to implement changes to the supply of home oxygen services in 2006, the auditor general for Wales has concluded.
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Mental health training shortage hits progress on safety
The Healthcare Commission's investigation into mental health inpatient services paints a troubling picture.
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Opening the door to clinical innovation
The medical world is looking to managers and surgeons to unlock the benefits of clinical innovation - and training is again the key.
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Emma Dent on the smoking ban
One year on from the introduction of the English smoking ban, it is striking how much difference it has made to the nation's social habits.
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Survey finds foundation trusts' hidden private income
Foundation trusts earned up to £70m more income from private patients last year than their accounts show, a confidential report for the regulator Monitor suggests.
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Capita beats Dr Foster to NHS Choices contract
The Department of Health has announced its intention to award the NHS Choices contract to Capita.
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Mental health managers told: stop posing as Cinderella
Mental health managers have been ordered to promote their services rather than presenting them as a 'bleak Victorian underworld'.
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Bradshaw to bring in firms to boost GP commissioning
Private companies are to help practice based commissioning consortiums put together business cases that primary care trusts can understand.
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Surgery president pushes for faster spread of innovation
Tackling variations in the quality of surgical teams would save more lives than investing in new drugs, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed.
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NICE calls for quicker access to specialist stroke treatment
Commissioners and providers should ensure all patients with a suspected stroke are admitted as quickly as possible to an acute stroke unit.
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Cynthia Bower to take helm at Care Quality Commission
Cynthia Bower has been appointed chief executive of the Care Quality Commission. The NHS West Midlands chief executive will take up her new job on 1 August.
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Inpatient mental health slammed as commissioners neglect services
Commissioners are neglecting mental health inpatient services despite endemic levels of violence, overcrowding and untrained staff, a damning review has found.Nearly a quarter of mental health inpatient beds are in trusts rated weak by inspectors, according to the first Healthcare Commission review focused on mental health inpatient services.