All News articles – Page 2212
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A private bill to establish a UK-wide register of all women who undergo breast removal, to prevent cancer and enable consultants to assess the effectiveness of the surgery, is being sponsored by Joan Ruddock, MP for Lewisham Deptford. The Prophylactic Mastectomy Registry Bill had its second reading this week.
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A Consumers' Association report highlighting 'unscrupulous practices' by some slimming clinics, including prescription of inappropriate or dangerous drugs, and failure to inform patients about the side-effects of drugs was noted in an early-day motion signed by 36 MPs, including four members of the health select committee investigating the regulation of ...
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Conservative MP for New Forest East Julian Lewis has urged the government to clarify its mixed-sex wards policy in mental health units. He said that despite ministers' commitment to abolish mixed sex wards, and evidence of abuse of female patients by male patients, official guidance still advised against 'complete segregation' ...
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Plans to cut Scotland's biggest killers by half
Deaths from Scotland's two biggest killer diseases should be cut by up to 50 per cent under plans set out in a public health white paper that promises a 'coherent attack' on health inequalities as its 'overarching aim'.
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Deans 'will be liable in bias cases'
Doctors and dentists who teach postgraduate students have been warned they are personally accountable if they discriminate on grounds of sex, race or disability.
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Portly bearded despot sharpens his clause
What a week for the oldsters! In the space of a few days they were told by the boffins that they can all soon expect to live to be 130 (grim thought), yet also that some trusts may deny them access to cardiac rehabilitation programmes after a stroke or heart ...
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And the bands play on
The NHS pay system is being reformed to allow a combination of national pay spines and locally decided bands. But the success of the scheme will depend crucially on the unions.
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Whole new ball game
Policies must command respect in the wider community if health service reforms are to work, the IHSM's Scottish conference heard. Barbara Millar reports
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People asked to pay for their own return to practice courses
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that people who want to return to nursing could be put off by being asked to pay for their own return to practice courses. Health secretary Frank Dobson has said courses should be free and has allocated £4m to cover costs, but the ...
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Lib Dems seek to outlaw anti-elderly discrimination
Refusal of treatment because patients are too old would be outlawed under a bill sponsored by Twickenham Liberal Dem-ocrat MP Vincent Cable.
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AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row
English health authorities have been accused of misspending HIV budgets by not following government guidance that at least half should target vulnerable groups.
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Aggrieved GPs take a back seat in the new NHS Denham is wise to keep clinicians at arm's length in decision-making
Health minister John Denham is proving himself a worthy successor to Alan Milburn in his ability to talk nonsense about handing power to GPs, while in practice ensuring that real decision-making rests elsewhere (see news, pages 2-3).