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New guidance on patient choice
The Department of Health has published new guidance and information on the rollout of the 'free choice' policy, which will allow most patients to choose the hospital where they are treated.
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Postgraduate medical institute opens
A new postgraduate medical institute supported by 11 NHS trusts in the East of England has been officially launched by higher education minister Bill Rammell.
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Call to protect legal status of health visiting
Union leaders have urged health secretary Alan Johnson to halt plans that could lead to the legal abolition of the health visiting profession.Proposed changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Act could see less-qualified staff carrying out 'health visiting' duties, according to union Unite, which encompasses the Community Practitioners' and Health ...
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Work is good for mental health, says expert
Supported employment offers people with mental health problems a chance to get work, achieve recovery and lead fulfilling lives, according to a leading US expert.
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£8m boost for Scottish telecare
Scottish public health minister Shona Robison has pledged an additional £8m to expand telecare programmes that allow people leaving hospital to live more independently and safely at home.
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Public health doctors condemn private sector contract
Senior public health figures have condemned the Scottish government's decision to engage PricewaterhouseCoopers to run its patient experience programme.
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Report slams Department of Health statistics
The Department of Health's statistical releases have come under stinging criticism following a new report from the Statistics Commission, the official watchdog that will be disbanded at the end of this month.In an analysis of government releases, the quarterly NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times statistics failed against all six ...
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Healthcare Commission to investigate high mortality rates
The Healthcare Commission is to investigate mortality rates at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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Career Path: working in mental health
Not many managers in mental health nursing can claim to have worked in the Royal Engineers and as a healthcare assistant. For Andy Johnston, however, it was those early experiences that led him to start nurse training in 1988. He is now a hospital manager. Here, he charts his career's ...
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Ill health costs £100bn
People should be kept healthy at work and be helped to return to work if they get ill, according to a review of work-related health services.The review, led by national director for health and work Dame Carol Black, found that ill health costs £100bn a year and that the human ...
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Doctors to get extra training in alcohol-related health problems
To help tackle the health effects of alcohol misuse 60,000 new doctors are to be trained to identify and treat people who are drinking too much, public health minister Dawn Primarolo has announced.
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Over 6,600 more staff in NHS
There are 6,625 more frontline staff working in the NHS than a year ago, according to figures published by the NHS Information Centre. The figures include 2,033 more doctors, 1,262 more nurses, 624 midwives and 252 fewer managers.
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Scottish government steps up fight against hospital infections
Prudent prescribing of antibiotics and a surveillance programme to monitor and provide data on organisms that are resistant to antibiotics is part of a hospital infections action plan released by the Scottish government.
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Prison drug services falling short
Prison drugs services often fall short of even minimum standards, a report by the UK Drug Policy Commission has said. The report says community treatments are likely to more appropriate than imprisonment in many cases but not enough is known about which interventions for drug dependent offenders actually work. ...
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Services must focus on recovery says report
Mental health services need to focus more on recovery and less on medication and symptom control, according to a policy paper published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. The paper says that radical change is needed to give service users more opportunities to get their lives back.
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DH report shows mixed progress on health inequalities
There has been progress on tackling health inequalities but the difference between women's life expectancy in poor areas and the rest of the country is still growing, says a Department of Health report.
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Doctors publish report on involving patients
A report on public and patient involvement in the NHS will be launched by the British Medical Association today.
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Launch of oral health plan for Wales
New measures to improve dental health in Wales will be announced by health minister Edwina Hart today.
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NHS failing people with learning difficulties, say experts
The NHS is failing people with learning difficulties, according to an editorial published in the BMJ today.
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Radiation warning for hospitals
The Healthcare Commission has urged hospitals to ensure they are not exposing patients to unnecessary doses of radiation through x-rays, CT scans and other procedures.The regulator's first report on x-ray and radiological incidents, published today, shows one in three involve the wrong patient and reporting is patchy.