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£30m boost for family nurse partnership programme
Vulnerable babies, young children and their families will continue to benefit from improved life chances because of a £30m expansion of an initiative to help equip young people with parenting skills, health minister Ann Keen has announced.Ms Keen said: 'Children at risk of social exclusion in later life need intensive, ...
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New foundation trusts named
Regulator Monitor has announced the authorisation of two new foundation trusts - Poole Hospital and East London and the City Mental Health trusts. The organisations will get their new status on 1 November, bringing the total number to 79, of which 17 are mental health trusts.
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Travel costs to be refunded immediately
NHS organisations must be able to refund patients' travel costs immediately, in cash, on the day of travel and regardless of the time of day, new guidance from the Department of Health has stated.
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Pay rises falling behind inflation
Pay for NHS staff such as nurses, cooks, cleaners and physiotherapists must exceed retail inflation next year if the threat of a mass retention crisis is to be contained, health unions have warned.
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Abortion approval system needs review
The requirement for two doctors to approve an abortion should be reviewed, the Commons science and technology committee has said.
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GP earnings rise 10 per cent
The average GP contracted to work for the NHS earned net profits of £110,000 in 2005-06, up 10 per cent on the previous year, figures from the Information Centre for health and social care have shown.The figures also showed that GPs invested less of their gross earnings back into their ...
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Planned care for older prisoners
The Department of Health has published new guidance on delivering individually planned care for older prisoners.
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Improving nutritional care
New guidance on improving nutritional care has been published by the Department of Health and the Nutrition Summit stakeholder group.
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Students at risk of hepatitis C
Half of British students could be exposing themselves to the hepatitis C virus by engaging in 'risky' activities such as getting tattoos and sharing razors and toothbrushes, according to a new survey.Two in three respondents also admitted to being ignorant about the virus or to having no idea what the ...
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health spend burden
A new report from the think tank Reform claims that the government has treated young people in the UK with 'indifference', 'inaction' and 'neglect'.
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Guides aim to help arthritis sufferers stay in work
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society has launched two new guides to help people living with the disease stay in work for longer.
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Night-time accidents total 140,000
Last year, 140,000 cases of slips, trips and medical errors happened at night to patients receiving NHS care, a new survey claims.
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Mediawatch
Hospitals'swamped by out-of-hours care failure'read the Daily Telegraph's headline earlier this week after it told readers that hospital accident and emergency departments are being'inundated'by patients with minor ailments because the out-of-hours service provided by GPs is'so poor'. The broadsheet published findings from a study by the Royal College of ...
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Increased infection risk for homeless drug users
A report from the Health Protection Agency shows that around three-quarters of injecting drug users have been homeless at some point.
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New contract for industry-sponsored trials
The Department of Health has introduced a new single research contract called the contract research organisation model clinical trial agreement. It is designed to speed up the contracting process for industry-sponsored trials.
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Out-of-hours care 'inflexible'
Out-of-hours care for acutely ill people is largely inadequate and inflexible, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians.
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GPs back practice-based commissioning
New data on practice-based commissioning from the Department of Health claims that 57 per cent of GPs are supportive of PBC as a policy. A further 22 per cent are neutral and 8 per cent strongly oppose the policy.The results of the survey also show that 31 per cent said ...
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HPV immunisation programme announced
A human papilloma virus (HPV) immunisation programme to routinely vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against cervical cancer will begin in September 2008.
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Young and elderly least likely to get best diabetes care
There is room for inprovement in the care of people with diabetes, according to a report from the Information Centre for health and social care.The National Diabetes Audit, carried out by the Information Centre on behalf of the Healthcare Commission, is an ongoing audit designed to monitor care and help ...
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The Men and Pharmacy project
Postmen are to be the first to benefit from a project launched by the Men’s Health Forum to encourage men to visit their local pharmacy.The Men and Pharmacy project aims to find out why men make only limited use of pharmacy services and how this might be improved.As part of ...