All Public health articles – Page 144
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HSJ Knowledge
Encouraging exercise in people with diabetes
A pilot scheme developed by Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust and evaluated by London South Bank University could help patients lose weight and manage their condition better.
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Comment
Comment: Greater Manchester's health inequality woes resonate widely
'The Audit Commission report makes clear that reconfiguration 'is damaging the potential for more successful joint developments,' creating rifts and instability.'
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HSJ Knowledge
How to create real sustainable change in your community
To mark the launch of this year's Sustainable Communities Awards, Penny Harding explains how her project to create social inclusion in a deprived rural area won one of the categories
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HSJ Knowledge
Smoking bans in mental health settings
Implementing smoke-free policy in healthcare settings is generally popular but not always so in mental healthcare.
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HSJ Knowledge
Sustainable Communities Awards expanded
HSJ's Sustainable Communities Awards, which recognise public sector achievement in the field, has grown. With 11 categories for 2007 - three more than last year - primary care trusts, local authorities, and other local partners will have a chance to be honoured for their role in delivery of sustainable communities.
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HSJ Knowledge
Cutting unplanned emergency admissions
To improve and provide personalised care for patients with long-term, complex conditions and to provide appropriate patient treatment pathways for them, Dudley Beacon and Castle primary care trust recruited three assertive case managers and one nurse consultant.
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News
New NICE guidance on obesity
The latest work programme for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will include analysis on how to tackle growing obesity levels.
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News
New service to combat lack of NHS dentists
A new dental access hotline has attracted 200 calls in its first week
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News
Care heads for the high street as Blair courts retail kings
Tony Blair seems to have given his blessing to the expansion of companies like Boots into the healthcare market. As ideological rows about the involvement of the private sector hot up, Jennifer Trueland asks what the high street could offer the NHS.
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News
Drive to increase Asian vitamin intake
Asian children should be given vitamin D from birth to two years to halt the re-emergence of a deficiency in the UK, according to doctors.
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News
Report calls for 'test action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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News
Report calls for 'test action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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News
Report calls for 'radical action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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News
Exclusive: Audit Commission calls for 'radical action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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News
Fresh food roll-out
A new pilot scheme to give freshfood vouchers to low-income families has been judged a success and will be rolled out nationally in November.
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News
New DoH panel for COPD
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has unveiled a panel of 19 experts to help shape improved standards and greater choice for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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News
Syphilis surge in North West prompts warning to look for early symptoms
An upsurge of syphilis in the North West has prompted the region's health protection agency to tell doctors and dentists to be on the lookout for early symptoms.
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News
European Commission consults on cross-border treatment
The European Commission is to run a public consultation on encouraging patients to cross EU borders for treatment.
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Comment
David Woodhead on public health
'We were facing our just desert for all the desserts we had just crammed in out faces'
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News
Government launches childhood obesity plan
Education secretary Alan Johnson has announced a package of new measures to tackle childhood obesity in schools.