All Public health articles – Page 114
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Paul Jennings on football-friendly marketing
Through an ongoing commitment to social marketing in health, we have been looking for ways that newer technologies could work for us in delivering messages to target groups.
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Supplements
Round table - clinical priorities: a dose of realism
Wonder drugs will play a part in transforming healthcare - but a roundtable of experts brought together by HSJ and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said implementing best practice could be even more important. Alexis Nolan reports
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Biomedical research centre of excellence for Manchester
A biomedical research centre to be opened in Manchester will help to prevent, diagnose and treat ill-health and ensure patients benefit from scientific breakthroughs as quickly as possible, the Department of Health has announced.
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Chief operating officer for NHS Direct
Paula Higson has been appointed chief operating officer of NHS Direct.
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Comment
Media Watch: Olympic health worries
'I would rather be in music than in politics,' said health secretary Alan Johnson in an interview with The Observer's Music Monthly magazine.
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HSJ Knowledge
Can fluoridation help the poorest?
The health secretary's promise of £14m a year over the next three years for water fluoridation schemes has reignited the debate. Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts must persuade local communities to agree to it, but opponents protest that fluoridation is mass medication to benefit the few and point ...
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Census shows wide variation in numbers of clinical staff
The government's boast that the NHS has been swelled by thousands of extra clinical staff masks wide regional variations and a flattening in the number of nurses and GPs.
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Emma Dent calls for green spaces without the public urinating
One of the things I like best about London is that despite being big, dirty, crowded and at times downright chaotic, its allocation of green spaces is among the most generous for any capital city in the world.
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DH admits target on health inequalities is hard to meet
The Department of Health has admitted that it will be 'difficult' to meet its target to reduce health inequalities.
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HSJ Knowledge
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Public health doctors condemn private sector contract
Senior public health figures have condemned the Scottish government's decision to engage PricewaterhouseCoopers to run its patient experience programme.
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HSJ Knowledge
More recipes for success from Race for Health
Why not click through and cook the latest fantastic meal from Race for Health? It's the NHS's flagship programme for supporting better health in black and minority ethnic communities.
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Ill health costs £100bn
People should be kept healthy at work and be helped to return to work if they get ill, according to a review of work-related health services.The review, led by national director for health and work Dame Carol Black, found that ill health costs £100bn a year and that the human ...
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Doctors to get extra training in alcohol-related health problems
To help tackle the health effects of alcohol misuse 60,000 new doctors are to be trained to identify and treat people who are drinking too much, public health minister Dawn Primarolo has announced.
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Prison drug services falling short
Prison drugs services often fall short of even minimum standards, a report by the UK Drug Policy Commission has said. The report says community treatments are likely to more appropriate than imprisonment in many cases but not enough is known about which interventions for drug dependent offenders actually work. ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Médecins Sans Frontières?
There are conflicting approaches to providing NHS care to those not entitled to it, and the charity Médecins du Monde is at the front line of the battle. Mark Gould reports
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DH report shows mixed progress on health inequalities
There has been progress on tackling health inequalities but the difference between women's life expectancy in poor areas and the rest of the country is still growing, says a Department of Health report.
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NHS celebrates no smoking day
NHS trusts across the country are staging events and offering advice and support to help people quit smoking on national No Smoking Day today.
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Comment
AIDS: getting the word out to diverse communities
Educating immigrant groups about the AIDS epidemic in the UK must be treated as a key public health priority, as Hazel Barrett explains
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Pregnant women to get priority on London transport
Stickers designating priority seating for pregnant women, people with disabilities and people who are unable to stand are to be introduced today on the London Underground system.