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Prostate cancer research programme to begin
Health secretary Alan Milburn has increased funding for prostate cancer research as part of a new NHS prostate cancer programme. The Department of Health will be directly funding £1.2m of research this year, rising to £4.2m by 2003-04.
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Adverse drug reactions monitoring to be updated
The Medicines Control Agency is introducing an updated 'yellow card' scheme for reporting suspected adverse drug reactions, designed to protect patient confidentiality. The new scheme will no longer require personal details such as a patient's name and date of birth, but will just ask for information such as a patient's ...
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Milburn invited to explain reason for scrapping CHCs
Croydon community health council has invited health secretary Alan Milburn and junior health minster Gisela Stuart to its next meeting to 'explain the thinking behind the NHS plan' and in particular 'the intention to abolish CHCs'. The CHC hopes to persuade at least a senior civil servant to attend. Meanwhile, ...
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Anti-smoking research shows TV ads make sense
Health Development Agency research suggests that health promotion on television is an effective way to combat smoking.
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High Caesarean rates at hospital raises concerns
Southern health and social services council has raised concerns about Caesarean section rates at Craigavon Area Hospital after conducting research about women's experiences of giving birth at the unit. Between June and September last year, the Caesarean rate was 27 per cent - between 8 and 9 per cent higher ...
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Deprivation and population key to major rethink on Scots funding
The way Scotland's health funding is allocated has been changed, with a shift away from the existing system based primarily on population numbers.
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Reforms built into third wave of PMS
The government has incorporated key elements of the NHS plan into contracts for the third wave of personal medical services pilots.
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Longstanding BMA secretary to be Scottish chief medical officer
The new chief medical officer for Scotland will be Dr Mac Armstrong, secretary of the British Medical Association since 1993.
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Dear Mel. . .
What does 'phenomenological' mean ? I've heard lots of nurses use the term when they want to impress people, but when I ask them what it means they just look mysterious and walk away. I'm worried it might be a horrible disease I've got and they won't tell me - ...
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Biotech firm 'will not charge'NHS for breast cancer tests
Scottish biotechnology firm Rosgen has announced that it does not plan to charge the NHS for carrying out tests for mutations in two genes linked to breast cancer.
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RCN lends weight to care row
The Royal College of Nursing has added its voice to criticisms of the government's plans for long-term care.