All Public health articles – Page 105

  • News

    New HIV infections in decline, report reveals

    2008-08-05T11:57:00Z

    There have been significant gains in preventing new HIV infections in a number of heavily affected countries, according to a new report.

  • News

    DH pledges £2m to promote breastfeeding

    2008-08-05T11:39:00Z

    The Department of Health has announced that an extra £2m will be invested to help more women in England breastfeed.The extra funding will help hospitals in disadvantaged areas achieve Unicef baby-friendly status, which is awarded to healthcare providers that meet best practice standards for promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding.

  • News

    PCTs urged to inform parents of children's weight

    2008-08-04T11:58:00Z

    Starting this September, parents of children who have been weighed and measured at school could automatically receive their child's results to help them achieve a healthy weight.

  • News

    HIV prevention services should be targeted, survey shows

    2008-08-04T11:48:00Z

    A survey of Africans in England has found that targeted HIV prevention services are needed to improve people's confidence and skills to avoid passing on or getting HIV.

  • News

    HPV vaccine campaign starts in Scotland

    2008-08-01T11:40:00Z

    A national campaign to promote Scotland's first mass vaccination programme against cervical cancer has been launched by Scottish public health minister Shona Robison.

  • Comment

    Michael White on facing up to obesity

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Amid the hype over Labour's defeat in Glasgow East, I suspect the most important consequence of the by-election will not be the ejection of Gordon Brown.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    Cancer screening: two decades on target but still more to do

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Thousands of women's lives have been saved thanks to the screening programmes introduced 20 years ago. However, there is no cause for complacency, as marginalised women still need to be reached.

  • Leader

    Venomous rhetoric blocks better services

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    The row in Cornwall over plans to move a cancer service out of the county encapsulates the struggles primary care trust managers face when trying to improve services.

  • News

    Campaigners urge Johnson to legislate against obesity

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    Public health bodies are urging the government to back up its rhetoric on obesity with legislation.

  • News

    Scottish breast screening standards all being met

    2008-07-29T11:00:00Z

    Statistics from the NHS Scotland breast screening programme show that all 11 of its performance standards are being met for the first time.

  • News

    Sexually transmitted infections on rise in Scotland

    2008-07-29T10:52:00Z

    The workload of Scottish genitourinary medicine clinics and the number of acute sexually transmitted infections being diagnosed in them continue to rise, according to figures from NHS Scotland.

  • News

    Continence care suffering, survey claims

    2008-07-29T10:44:00Z

    Waiting times for assessment and provision of continence care products are increasing and around half of primary care trusts exclude some patient groups from receiving any, a survey by the Absorbent Hygiene Products Manufacturers Association has said.

  • News

    Boards 'need sexual health representative'

    2008-07-28T10:40:48Z

    Primary care trusts should have a board member responsible for sexual health, a report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV has said. It also said commitment was needed to ensure improvements in sexual health services moved beyond clinical work to reducing stigma and social exclusion.It added ...

  • Comment

    Maggie Rae on lunchtime networking

    2008-07-28T09:00:00Z

    Did you know four out of five of us do not get properly away from our desks during our working day? Shocking isn't it?

  • Comment

    Sophia Christie on public health leadership

    2008-07-24T09:00:00Z

    For much of the last 20 years, public health has faced a huge challenge of marginalisation. A state active model of health was always going to struggle under a government that denied the concept of society.

  • News

    Mental health being neglected in the elderly

    2008-07-24T09:00:00Z

    Older people's mental health and well-being is being severely neglected, claims a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research.Its report Older People and Wellbeing estimates 2.4 million older people have depression and predicts the number with mental health problems will rise dramatically over the next 20 years. This will ...

  • News

    Health secretary targets obesity

    2008-07-23T13:50:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson will tonight call for a national movement to tackle obesity in a speech on public health to the Fabian Society.Mr Johnson will outline the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argue that the strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of ...

  • News

    HPV vaccination programme extended

    2008-07-22T12:23:00Z

    The national vaccination programme against the HPV virus is to be extended to 300,000 girls aged 17 and 18.

  • News

    DH moots new restrictions on alcohol sales

    2008-07-22T12:13:00Z

    Restrictions including only selling alcohol in small glasses, restricting happy hours and price-based drink promotions and banning alcohol displays at checkouts could be introduced following a consultation on the drinking culture in England.Alcohol manufacturers have been given until the end of the year to put warnings on cans and bottles ...

  • News

    Charity launches diabetes awareness campaign

    2008-07-21T11:54:00Z

    More than half a million people in the UK are unaware they have type 2 diabetes, according to the charity Diabetes UK.