All Public health articles – Page 74
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CommentMilton’s would-be milk snatch
As the overblown furore over school milk came and, almost as quickly, went after David Cameron stepped in, I was left feeling a bit sorry for Anne Milton, the coalition’s Conservative public health minister.
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HSJ Knowledge
Saving money with social marketing
Few in the public sector are more keenly aware of the burden of cost savings than the NHS.
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CommentSteve Field on public health and milky u-turns
His members have been given the key to NHS commissioning, and now Royal College of GPs chair Steve Field has weighed in on the country’s public health.
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HSJ KnowledgeSocial marketing in health: the right tools for the job
Social marketing is playing a growing role in strategies to improve population health. In the first of two articles Stuart Shepherd examines the National Social Marketing Centre’s social marketing planning guide and toolbox
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NewsPublic health campaign to boost disabled sport uptake
More disabled people across London should see sport as a possibility in their lives, according to a joint NHS and local government strategy.
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HSJ KnowledgeHealth Inequalities: local problems, local solutions
A Department of Health programme is uniting local organisations to address key determinants of health, write Lucy Reynolds, Russell Collins and Sam Shah
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HSJ Knowledge
Commitment to health outcomes
“The government believes that we need to…encourage behaviour change to help people build healthier lives”.
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NewsLondon mayor seeks health funds role
London mayor Boris Johnson is looking to take over large parts of the capital’s public health budget instead of it being passed directly to councils.
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SupplementsPreventing stroke: primary force
Improving GPs’ confidence in diagnosing and treating suspected atrial fibrillation has the potential to save lives while reducing the need for referral to secondary care.
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NewsGPs overlook public health for QOF cash
The quality and outcomes framework has resulted in GPs focusing too narrowly on certain conditions to the detriment of their wider public health role, the King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsNHS brand undermined by online confusion
The NHS spends close to £100m a year on thousands of websites that are often hard to find, badly designed and not wanted by the public, according to government reports leaked to HSJ.
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HSJ KnowledgeSmoking cessation in Coventry
NHS Coventry has delivered the city’s biggest ever initiative to help people stop smoking.
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NewsNational Childbirth Trust wants maternity providers to go it alone
Maternity networks should be provider organisations and employ their own staff, according to a charity working with the government on the proposals.
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NewsMinimum alcohol price policy announced
Manchester city centre could be the first in the country to set a minimum price for the sale of alcohol, it has been announced.
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HSJ Knowledge
Maternal mortality in Africa
The high rate of maternal mortality in Africa is a worldwide concern. The global targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) no 5 are to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters and achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015.
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CommentMedia Watch: lazy and unproductive?
Many NHS staff won’t be getting a pay rise and fear for their jobs, but they are lazy and unproductive too, newspaper reports suggest.
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NewsBroader healthcare role for councils unveiled
The Department of Health has unveiled its vision for councils’ role in making local health services democratically accountable by influencing commissioning.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to tackle poor housing standards and improve health
Environmental health officers and advocates in Liverpool used PCT funding to help reduce poor housing standards that harm health. Marie-Claire Kidd reports
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NewsHealth ministers spend £60,000 on travel
Health ministers have spent almost £60,000 on travel during their month and a half in office, figures show.
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NewsBreast cancer screening inequality
Official statistics have revealed that fewer women in deprived areas of Scotland are being screened for breast cancer compared to those in better off communities.