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Weird world health
End Game understands the ability to overcome pain - we once worked with someone who walked around for two weeks with a broken leg and have watched 24 on numerous occasions - but there are limits.However is appears that one can lose a limb and fail to notice. A Japanese ...
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Improvements still needed in mental health
Many mental health patients are not getting the support they need, a Healthcare Commission report has revealed.The government watchdog's annual community mental health service users survey shows that, while most patients are happy with standards of care, persistent gaps remain.Half of patients who wanted information about local support groups had ...
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Healthy schools
As health initiatives that straddle health and local government go, the National Healthy Schools Programme is an elder citizen. Eight years after it began, it is an example of what can be achieved when the two sectors work together. Input from schools leads to healthier populations, while input from the ...
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HSJ launches revamped website
HSJ has launched a new-look website featuring extra content and designed to be easier to use.
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Inequality targeted
The most deprived areas of the country are to get help to raise life expectancy and meet 2010 targets to reduce health inequalities with a health inequalities intervention tool.
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Looky likey
Our looky likey this week is suggested by NHS National Workforce Projects web development and new media officer Tim Gough. He writes: 'Has anyone ever spotted the unbelievable lookylikeyness between your columnist Noel Plumridge and Tim Brooke-Taylor? I thought the Goodies were taking over the NHS when I turned to ...
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patient website
An independent patient feedback website, has won funding to extend its service to mental health users.Patient Opinion, the social enterprise behind the website www.patientopinion.org.uk, has secured funding to develop its service to cover mental health services in England.Founder of the site Dr Paul Hodgkin said the funding will be used ...
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Stroke service start
A 24-hour stroke service in north London has been launched at University College London Hospitals foundation trust in a joint initiative with the Whittington Hospital trust.
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Cases of invasive pneumococcal disease down
The number of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease in children has fallen since the introduction of a new vaccine a year ago, figures show.
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Darzi to host webchat
Health minister Lord Darzi is to host a webchat to answer questions about the Our NHS, Our Future consultation.The Department of Health is inviting questions for the webchat, to be broadcast at 10am on 27 September.
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Call to redirect NHS funds to councils
The NHS should lose 0.5 per cent of its next cash settlement from government to councils to pay for preventative services for the elderly, the Local Government Association has said.
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Guidance sets out who should pay for patient care
Guidance on when primary care trusts are legally obliged to pay for patient care has been published by the Department of Health.
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Vaccine could cut cases of cervical cancer
A new vaccine could reduce cases of cervical cancer and genital warts if introduced into the national immunisation programme, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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Nuffield Trust appoints interim director
Healthcare policy charity the Nuffield Trust has appointed Neil Goodwin as interim director.
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Johnson and Darzi start public engagement events
Health secretary Alan Johnson and junior health minister Lord Darzi have begun meeting the public in what the Department of Health has called 'one of the largest engagementeventsin the history of the NHS'.
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Consultant physician numbers stall
The rise in consultant physician numbers over the last year is the smallest since the annual census of posts began, according to the Royal College of Physicians.
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New deputy chairman for BMA
A new deputy chairman has been appointed to the council of the British Medical Association. Dr Kate Bullen is an associate specialist anaesthetist who works at the North Bristol trust's Frenchay Hospital.
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Open up primary care, says CBI
New commercial providers such as supermarkets and pharmacies should be brought in to challenge existing poor provision in primary care, according to the Confederation of British Industry.
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Three-year waits for digital aids
The average maximum wait across theUKfor digital hearing aids is twice the English target of 18 weeks and some patients are still waiting for up to three years, according to a survey by the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists.Although waits for digital hearing aids are down, it said patients ...