All News articles – Page 1209
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Employers urged to screen for ADHD
Workers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder do 22 days less work per year than people who do not have the disorder, according to research published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Scottish men drinking twice recommended amount
Figures updated to reflect the increasing strength of alcoholic drinks show many more Scottish drinkers than previously thought could be putting their health at risk.
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Public health research programme launched
A research programme designed to help the government improve public health and reduce health inequalities has been launched.
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Prison mental health faces funding lottery
Prison mental health services in England face a postcode lottery in funding and get only a third of the money they need, according to a new report.
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Commercial director Chan Wheeler resigns
The head of the Department of Health’s commercial directorate Channing Wheeler has resigned from his post.Mr Wheeler’s resignation was confirmed on Friday, 23 May. In a statement the DH said he was resigning for “personal, family reasons” and would return to the US. He is due to leave his post ...
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NHS website aims to dispel career myths
A survey published by NHS Careers has highlighted the mixed feelings among undergraduates towards a career in the health service.
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Nicholson tells Patient Safety Congress: create a safety culture
Chief executives have been told to create an environment where staff can report safety incidents instead of being ‘hung up to dry’.
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Pharmacy law changes to go ahead
The government is to press ahead with changes to the law governing safety in pharmacies.
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New chief at Royal College of Midwives
Cathy Warwick is to take over as chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives.
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Statistics reveal infection death hot spots
The Office for National Statistics has published its first report on deaths involving MRSA and C difficile.The report shows that 217 hospitals and one hospice account for more than 80 per cent of the total number of deaths in England and Wales.
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Welsh hospitals go wireless
Neath Port Talbot Hospital and the Princess of Wales Hospital have launched a wireless network allowing staff to access patient records at the hospital bedside.
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Deprivation 'has little bearing' on winter admissions
Socioeconomic factors have little bearing on emergency admissions to hospital with respiratory illness, a new study has found.
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Plans for the future of British healthcare
Gordon Brown may well not favour a US-style social insurance system to solve the huge problem of the future social and long-term care funding gap in Britain. However, the government certainly does believe that the private sector has a major role to play in delivering a fair, affordable and sustainable ...
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Striving for excellence
I was delighted to see the Healthcare Commission's latest national survey of adult inpatients. This highlights the proportion of patients who rate their care as 'excellent' rather than aggregating together the proportion that rate it 'good, very good or excellent'.
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Cost problems blight healthcare proposals
It is both regrettable and depressingly inevitable that objective debate surrounding Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London vision has been blighted by practical concerns. In my experience, GP surgeries are already struggling to invest in the latest equipment, so it is hardly surprising that the prospect of having to kit themselves ...
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Funding on the front line
I read Michael White's column with interest. I would like to offer a view from the front line. All primary care trusts have mechanisms to consider requests for funding specific drugs or interventions on a named-patient basis in exceptional circumstances. Usually termed as individual patient requests, these are for requests ...
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Mental health requires combined approach
Samantha Allen's article on the non-holistic approach in some mental health services, which too often separates the body from the mind, is spot on.
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Housing crisis
Simon Stevens' suggestion of individual budgets for the whole of a patient's healthcare needs in one year rather than a disease-specific approach is attractive and makes a lot of sense. However, individually tailored and purchased healthcare is not much use if the individual has housing problems or is finding maintaining ...
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Recruit senior managers from medical ranks
Clare Chapman and Professor Ian Gilmore are quite right to encourage the recruitment of senior managers from medical ranks as a means of accelerating the breakdown of 'perceived' barriers between managers and medics.
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Regulator must not ignore social care
Jo Stephenson's article identifies the concerns that many of us in social care have about the creation of the Care Quality Commission and whether it will become fixated on healthcare priorities.