All Public health articles – Page 27
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PHE chief: Smoking should be banned from all hospital sites
Public Health England chief executive calls for blanket smoking ban on NHS grounds Said only a few acute hospitals had achieved it so far Duncan Selbie said it was an important action for the NHS in prevention The chief executive of Public Health England has called for a ...
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Public sector prevention fund 'could be used across England'
Public Health England chief executive Duncan Selbie says North East dedicated prevention pot could be introduced elsewhere Proposal includes pooling preventative spending and ringfencing savings for further investment Says work still underway on how to ensure business rate retention for local authorities does not exacerbate inequality A move ...
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What's Trump got to do with our healthcare system? Plenty
Brexit and the US election result remind us that rising demand and falling revenues can’t continue - and that we must all face up to responsibility
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HSJ Local
'Outstanding' CCG to make smokers and obese patients wait six months for surgery
Harrogate and Rural District CCG announces new measures to help it make £8.4m of savings Proposals include getting obese patients and smokers to lose weight or quit for six months before being considered for operations The CCG was one of 10 rated “outstanding” by NHS England in July ...
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'Eat less, move more' has failed – now it's time to talk
NICE now recognises that talking therapies can succeed where traditional anti-obesity strategies have failed
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MPs warn public health cuts are 'false economy'
The government must commit to protecting public health funding if it is to avoid widening health inequalities, MPs have warned.
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What could Theresa May do about the 'burning injustice' of health inequality?
Theresa May has said she wants to address the life expectancy gap linked to poverty. We asked leading experts where she should start
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Senior public health figures pan childhood obesity plan
The government’s childhood obesity plan has been branded a disappointing missed opportunity by senior public health figures after it failed to take action on marketing and advertising of junk food and paid little attention to the role of councils.
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The NHS must rise to the challenge of tackling poverty
The health service does sterling work treating the consequences of poverty but can do much to address the causes, too
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PrEP row shows we can't let the NHS be picky about prevention
Jim McManus argues the NHS is ‘moralising’ about HIV when it should be working with local authorities on system-wide prevention
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NHS England loses HIV drug judicial review
NHS England has lost a judicial review about whether it has the power to commission a preventative HIV drug.
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Comment
Chief executives’ gameplan over the next year
The future will bring more clarity to the impications of NHS finance in the current political scenario
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It's time to pick up the pace in the wearable devices debate
As wearable technology become cheaper and more widely used, it’s time to begin vital conversations about confidentiality and how best to use the data
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Stevens calls for new NHS 'investment fund'
Simon Stevens urges new government to take advantage of record low borrowing costs to set up NHS “investment fund” NHS England chief warns it is an “open question” whether current capital will be enough to cover basic maintenance Brexit campaign’s “£350m” bus “should be impounded as ‘exhibit A’”, he ...
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Warning public health cuts risk child obesity rise
Child health experts warn public health cuts could have significant impact on the future health of children Concern over cuts to child obesity programmes Britain “disproportionately disadvantages children and young people”, say public health leaders An HSJ investigation that revealed the impact of council spending reductions on children’s ...
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Health and care sector collaboration can achieve improved efficiency
By partnering with housing services, the NHS can help patients to live healthier and more independent lives
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Revealed: Children's services hardest hit by public health cuts
Services aimed at children and young people are bearing the brunt of cuts to public health spending by local authorities, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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Public health cuts 'playing around with people's lives', says RCN chief
Government plans to scrap bursaries in England, public health cuts, caps on pay for agency staff and the removal of the Department of Health’s nursing policy unit all came under fire from the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing at the union’s annual congress.
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What could a regional mayor do for the health of local populations?
Rob Newton asks what impact locally elected mayors are likely to have on public health