All Public health articles – Page 47
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News
Seven in hospital in new Legionnaire's outbreak
Seven people are being treated in hospital for Legionnaires’ disease after an outbreak in Stoke.
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HSJ Local
Lancashire's health and wellbeing board launches draft plan
PERFORMANCE: Improving services for new mothers and young children will be among the top priorities for Lancashire’s new health and wellbeing board, draft plans show.
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SupplementsKicking habits: a special report on NHS drug services
This special report on drug services, in association with Reckitt Benckiser, is a timely look at new and changing approaches to treating addiction and commissioning addiction treatments.
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NewsNorth West local authorities seek rethink on public health funding
A group of local authorities are calling for a change to the proposed formula for public health funding, after research revealed it would be likely to transfer resources from poor to rich areas.
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NewsNew quality of life indicators reveal long term condition inequalities
A major new health information collection has highlighted the worse quality of life suffered by people with long-term conditions in poorer areas.
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NewsPCTs restricting access to sexual health services - report
MPs have warned the government that soem trusts are actively restricting women from accessing contraceptive services, in a new report published today.
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CommentJohn Deffenbaugh: why the NHS and local government jigsaw can fit together this time
There have been many attempts to bring the NHS and local government closer together.
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HSJ Knowledge
Prescription opioid dependence – an emerging problem
The role of opioids in the clinical management of persistent pain is fast becoming an international topic of debate and should be considered an urgent public health issue.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS innovations on child poverty: financial inclusion interventions
Ending child poverty by 2020 is a UK aim.
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NewsNicholson shuns localism to keep grip on NHS cash
Chief ‘doesn’t apologise’ for central control.
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NewsSecond death in Legionnaires' outbreak
A second person has died after catching Legionnaires’ disease in the outbreak in Edinburgh, NHS Lothian said.
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NewsDeath rate to be used to determine public health funding
Department of Health publishes plans to distribute money according to need
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News'More Legionnaires' deaths possible'
Further deaths from an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease cannot be ruled out, doctors warned, as people from further afield fell ill.
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CommentReaders' letters - 14 June 2012
CCGs are the Da Vincis of commissioning; and why public health should open up to the media
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NewsScotland's Legionnaires' cases increase again
Cases of a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease have risen again, the Scottish government has confirmed.
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HSJ Local
PCT cluster joins lung cancer campaign
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey is pushing a national campaign highlighting that a persistent cough can be a symptom of lung cancer.
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HSJ Local
Swindon vaccine success
PERFORMANCE: NHS Swindon had the third highest uptake of the human papilloma virus vaccine among year 8 pupils in the whole country during 2010-11.
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NewsDH business plan sets out caveats and minor delays
More details about public health funding, including how the controversial “health premium” will work in practice, are due to be published this month according to the Department of Health’s latest business plan.
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NewsCouncils claim lack of DH engagement on public health budgets
LGA fears funding for new health role will be insufficient
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NewsUnequal GP access could hamper NHS reforms, MPs warned
The continued “severe iniquity” in the geographical distribution of GPs threatens to place clinical commissioning groups in poor areas at a “large disadvantage”, MPs have been told.