All Long-term conditions articles – Page 31
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Rare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half
Only 56 per cent of the money allocated for cancer drugs normally unavailable on the NHS was spent in the first six months of a high profile fund, a report has found.
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Assisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett has defended his documentary about assisted suicide, which showed the moment a millionaire hotelier with motor neurone disease took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end his life.
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Councils poised to scale back consortia freedoms
Councils will eat into the freedoms commissioning consortia expected to gain if the recommendations of the patient involvement and public accountability group are implemented.
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Cancer patients to be hit by welfare reform
Government plans for welfare reform will plunge cancer patients into poverty simply “because they have not recovered quickly enough”, campaigners say.
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Cancer treatment disadvantage for older patients
Older cancer patients are less likely to survive due to inadequate treatment, according to a review released today.
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Arthritis Research UK launches new range of patient information resources
A health charity is addressing the information needs of arthritis patients head on, with a series of booklets designed to provide clear, relevant and authoritative information to
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Health secretary sets sights on improved dementia care
Improving care for older people and support for those with dementia is a “personal priority” for the Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon, she has told a conference.
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Neurology care criticised by RCP
The standard of care for UK patients with conditions such as migraines, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease is inadequate to support patient needs, according to a new report.
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Four arrested over residential hospital 'abuse'
The operator of a residential hospital has apologised unreservedly and suspended a number of staff following allegations that carers routinely abused vulnerable adults with learning difficulties.
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Macmillan urges support for cancer patients
A charity has called for the health service to acknowledge the long-term impact for cancer patients after new statistics showed the survival rates for many patients are improving.
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'Better quality data will help to reduce variations in care'
The latest report of the National Lung Cancer Audit has the potential to significantly reduce variations in care, writes Mick Peake
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Improving transition care of young cancer surivers: new publication launched
NHS Improvement steps up to the claim that a better transition care of young cancer patients is needed by creating a new publication to focus on the issue.
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DH remains committed to personal health budgets
The Department of Health has indicated its determination to roll out personal health budgets despite NHS managers warning they result in increased bureaucracy and run counter to the need to control costs.
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Tackling public health inequalities: NHS BEN's fight against smoking
With smoking levels above average in Birmingham East and North, NHS BEN’s Fight Back campaign has aimed to remove inequalities and improve health and wellbeing in the area.
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International index finds UK obesity growing
A new international index launched online today has highlighted the UK’s worsening obesity problem.
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Lung cancer audit shows huge variations between trusts
An audit of lung cancer care has found wide regional variation in the number of patients receiving treatment.
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Exclusive: Commissioning Board will be told to save cancer lives
A commitment to improve cancer outcomes in order to “save 5,000 lives a year” is set to be included in the government’s first “mandate” for the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has been told.
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QIPP and care plans for long term conditions: revisited
Last year a study into the impact of care planning on patients with long term conditions showed the early benefits of individual care plans. Now, follow up data has strengthened those results - and could transform the patient-clinician relationship. Shahid Ail, Julia Coletta and Richard Pope report.
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Cardiologists call for better specialist centres
Senior cardiologists have called for a reduction in the number of hospitals performing heart transplants because they want “bigger and better resourced centres” instead.
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The smoother pathways leading to reduced length of stay
Speeding up admission and smoothing discharge has reaped rewards in reducing length of stay. Mark Eaton explains.