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Progress made on world access to medicines
Work to ensure poor populations have better access to medicines has made progress, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Gay Africans with HIV face double stigma
Gay and bisexual African men living with HIV in London face a dual stigma, with many not disclosing either status to their family and friends, according to a study by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital foundation trust.
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Call to ban cigarette vending
Cancer Research UK has joined the British Heart Foundation in calling for a ban on the sale of cigarettes from unsupervised vending machines.
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Blocking migrant doctors from training posts ruled unlawful
The Court of Appeal has ruled that government guidance making it harder for doctors on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme to take up training posts in the NHS was unlawful.
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Social care council chair remains
Sir Rodney Brooke is to remain as chair of the General Social Care Council until 31 October 2008.
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Tragedies involving mentally ill could be avoided, says charity
Mental health charity Rethink has said tragic cases where people with mental illnesses harm others could be avoided if sufferers and their families had a legal right to care and treatment when they ask for it.
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Plans to relax 18-week target
Opposition politicians have accused the government of watering down its promise that no NHS patient will wait more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment or an operation.
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DoH admits bed-blocking stats blunder
The Department of Health has apologised to NHS and social care staff after it emerged figures showing a shock rise in 'bed-blocking' were wrong.The statistics showed an increase in the number of 'bed days' lost through delayed discharge from hospital. But the figure had actually gone down.
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Hospital maintenance staff strike over back pay
Maintenance staff at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals foundation trust began a series of strikes this week because they say they are owed thousands of pounds in back pay.
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Is evidence based policy making dangerous?
Alan MaynardThere is a dangerous new rhetoric in Whitehall with politicians describing their policies as 'evidence based'. If this description were true it would be cause of great celebration. However sadly it often is synonymous with a political desire to con the public.The Darzi report in October offered some wonderful ...
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Men targeted by new chlamydia strategy
A strategy aimed at increasing the number of men screened for chlamydia was launched today.
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Legislation on IVF and embryos launched
Legislation to update the regulation of in vitro fertilisation and research on embryos began its journey through Parliament yesterday.
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Lyn Whitfield on patient portals and information
There have been some interesting developments in health portals in the past few weeks. Over in theUSA, Microsoft launched HealthVault: a free site – paid for by advertising – that allows users to store personal health information and inputs from medical devices, and choose who to share the data with.By ...
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Early Christmas bonus for Birmingham staff overpaid £200k
Christmas has come early for more than 300 primary care trust workers. They have been told they need not repay an average of £600 paid to them by mistake over the past three-and-a-half years.
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NHS primary care director to back anti-privatisation charity
The Department of Health faces serious embarrassment next week when one of its top officials supports the launch of a campaign to oppose some of the government’s NHS privatisation plans.
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Private firms fear axe for treatment centre deals
Private health providers were waiting anxiously for the results of an official review of independent sector treatment centres as HSJ went to press
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Delayed discharge of elderly blamed on funding gap
Bed-blocking is being driven up because hospitals are discharging patients earlier and social services do not have the resources to cope, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has claimed.
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Social care green paper: meeting the long-term care challenge
The government has still not answered crucial questions over its plans for long-term care of the elderly. With an ageing population, how will it fund a system set to cost a lot more? And will people still have to sell their homes to fund care? Mark Gould reports
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Treasury may veto golden handshakes for trust chief executives
Future pay-offs to senior managers who leave under a cloud may have to be approved by the Treasury. It follows the furore over severance pay to former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Unions issue warning to government over plans to curb wage rise
Proposals to raise NHS wages by just 2 per cent will lead to political strife and sustained 'hard bargaining', according to health economists.