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Revised progress report on meningitis published
Chief medical officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson has published a revised progress report on meningitis outlining current campaigns to raise awareness of the disease and measures that can be taken to reduce outbreaks of it.Read the report here
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Council slams proposed cuts to local health services
Surrey county council's health scrutiny committee has decided that proposals to cut £10m from the budget of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals trust will substantially affect services. A public consultation exercise will now have to be held to look at the plans in more detail.
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Consultation launched on promotion of NHS services
The Department of Health has launched proposals for a self-regulatory approach to promotion of NHS services, underpinned by a code of practice. Consultation on the code is open until 28 February.To see the code go here
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Immigration rules could prevent UK medical studies, BMA claims
British Medical association representatives have met with Home Office minister Liam Byrne and health minister Lord Warner in a bid to seek exemption for medical students from new immigration rules.The body claims new rules that mean work permits will have to be applied for to do postgraduate training will prevent ...
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Parliament lobbied over mental health bill
The Mental Health Alliance is holding a mass lobby of Parliament today over the proposed Mental Health Bill. The proposed legislation is due to have its second reading in the Lords this afternoon.Find out more here
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Palliative care funding being eroded, campaigners claim
The National Council for Palliative Care has claimed funding from the NHS for palliative care is being eroded. A survey of services found that around 60 per cent of voluntary hospices were experiencing a decrease in their funding.
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Feedback to 'A Formula for Unfairness'
This is a response to 'A formula for Unfairness' article.
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Paula Grey on building on Smokefree Liverpool
The many very good health programmes and initiatives in the city over two decades have had little impact in reducing health inequalities
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Predicting the future
We were interested to read the article on telephone based health coaching for patients with long term conditions (Predicting the Future), though it was not clear how many patients were actually receiving such care.
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Paul Jennings on success in Walsall
Progress on teenage pregnancy has been substantial, with the fastest reduction in the West Midlands
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IT project accused of bullying
I wish to respond to the article IT project accused of bullying.
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Legal briefing: organising key commissioning relationships
Commissioning has been part and parcel of the NHS for a number of years. What has changed recently is the view that a reinvigorated and more sophisticated commissioning process, with the implementation of practice-based commissioning, will improve services and ensure value for money.
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Testing a new approach to patient-centred care
Millions of people in the UK are living with long-term conditions such as asthma or diabetes. However, the extent to which they are able to lead full and active lives depends, in part, on how able they are to manage their own healthcare, for example by their medication doses or ...
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Healthy food vouchers launched
Public health minister Caroline Flint has launched a new scheme to ensure low-income mothers and pregnant women can provide their families with milk, fresh fruit and vegetables.Healthy Start replaces the Welfare Food Scheme. It will give qualifying people weekly vouchers that they can exchange at 20,000 participating retailers.Click ...
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Department of Health launches GP satisfaction survey
A survey asking 5 million patients to rate their satisfaction with their GP is launched today.The GP patient experience survey, Your Doctor, Your Experience, Your Say, is part of the improved access scheme directed enhanced service. The results will be used to reward GPs ...
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Mike Cooke on mental health
We have made measurable progress in mental health services over the past six years but there is still too much variation in services and in investment, primarily in services not covered by a national service framework.
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National learning disabilities audit updated
The Healthcare Commission has published an update on its forthcoming audit of services for people with learning disabilities.It outlines which types of services will be reviewed, the pilot schemes now under way to test the methodology and plans for the national roll out.The update can be found ...
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Annual healthcheck overhauled
The Healthcare Commission has revised the criteria that will be used to assess NHS trusts' performance against the core standards in 2006-07.It takes into account new targets, revised policy as well as attempting to reduce repetition and increase clarity.See the revised criteria here
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Polonium-210 guidance issued
The Health Protection Agency and NHS Direct have issued information about the radioactive material polonium-210 in the wake of the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.It offers advice to anyone who thinks they may have been exposed to the substance.Read the HPA's guidance ...
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Widespread uptake of PBC incentives
Eight-one per cent of practices had taken advantage of incentive payments to implement practice-based commissioning by the end of September, according to new figures from the Department of Health. This is up from 74 per cent in August.Eighty-two per cent of PCTs have put in place arrangements to support PBC, ...