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Iddon joins flu campaign – Manchester Evening News 14th October 2008
BOLTON MP Brian Iddon is encouraging hundreds of local people to be vaccinated against flu before the winter begins.
And to encourage those most at risk, including over 65s, the Bolton south-east MP got himself a flu jab at Westminster.
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Men in the north of England have dirtier hands – The Guardian 15th October 2008
Men of the north, hang your heads in shame. Spot checks on commuters have revealed that the further north men live, the dirtier their hands.
In Newcastle, swabs of men’s hands revealed more than half were contaminated with bacteria normally found in faeces.
The percentage of the unclean fell with latitude, with 34% of Liverpudlian men testing positive for faecal bacteria, 21% in Birmingham, 15% in Cardiff and 6% in London.
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After what may have been one of the shorter meetings of the Advertising Standards Authority, further evidence emerged yesterday that chocolate-based snacks are not necessarily the key to a healthy diet.
Confectionery giants Mars and McVitie’s were both criticised by the watchdog for TV ads implying that Maltesers were a low calorie snack and that Jaffa Cakes were low in fat. The Maltesers advert showed a pair of female friends discussing whether or not the chocolate honeycomb snack was a “naughty” way to enjoy chocolate.
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NHS: Postcode lottery in out of hours GP surgeries revealed – The Guardian 15th October 2008
A new postcode lottery in the NHS emerged yesterday when the government disclosed results of a scheme to persuade GPs in England to open surgeries during evenings and weekends.
Ben Bradshaw, the health minister, said over 50% of GP surgeries were now offering extended hours. This met a target – set by Gordon Brown when he became prime minister – three months ahead of schedule. But Bradshaw released data showing big regional variations in the number of GPs willing to offer appointments outside normal office hours. In Cornwall 97% of practices operated extended hours, compared with 1% in Liverpool.
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It’s becoming clear that the turmoil in financial markets will have a huge impact on public services and the voluntary sector. We ask experts to assess the damage and suggest what can be done to combat the crisis
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Survey reveals barriers to employment for the long-term unemployed – The Guardian 15th October 2008
A new study looking at barriers to employment for the long-term unemployed has found a marked lack of confidence among claimants, despite investment in schemes to assist them into work.
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John Carvel on NHS regulation – The Guardian 15th October 2008
It is easier this month than last to make the case for effective regulation. Meltdown in the financial markets was caused by excessive risk-taking in banks and other institutions that were not subjected to adequate external scrutiny. And the same danger lurked in the public sector, as it became fashionable among politicians and managers to bemoan the burden imposed by inspectors poking their noses into state-run services and demanding shedloads of information to establish whether everything was well run.
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Travel firm helps mental health service users – The Guardian 15th October 2008
A specially created travel firm is reintroducing mental health service users to the world of work
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Letter: Stop NHS sell-offs – The Guardian 15th October 2008
At a time when there is meltdown in the financial markets, the government is pushing ahead with the fragmentation and privatisation of the National Health Service, both in acute and community sectors (Comment, October 13). With clinical services being put out to tender to the private sector, we fear this will result, when fully played out, in the needs-led services of today being given to the lowest bidder whose standards may fulfil a minimum requirement, but which would compromise the many areas of best practice within the NHS.
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Family doctors agree new pay deal – The Guardian 14th October 2008
The government has struck a deal with doctors’ leaders to reform the GP contract which MPs complained had led to “eye-watering” pay rises, it was revealed today.
The new deal with the British Medical Association (BMA) will see the minimum income practice guarantee (MPIG) phased out by April 2011.
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The demand for mental health services will rise in the wake of the financial crisis – which means we have to fund them properly
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More GP surgeries open evenings and weekends, says government – The Guardian 14th August 2008
More than half of GP practices are now offering extended hours to patients – meeting a government target three months early, figures published today show.
Health minister Ben Bradshaw announced that 4,250 practices across England (51.4% of the total) were now opening on evenings and weekends.
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Staff shortages ‘put premature babies at risk’ – The Guardian 15th October 2008
The lives of premature babies are being put at risk by an acute shortage of qualified staff, the special care baby charity Bliss warned last night.
It used the Freedom of Information Act to secure data from NHS trusts showing a shortfall of 1,700 neonatal nurses, leaving premature baby units unable to provide the recommended standard of care.
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Euthanasia expert banned from making university speech – The Guardian 15th October 2008
Queen’s University Belfast says views of Dr Philip Nitschke on assisted dying ‘not appropriate’ for lecture on Sunday
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Why does an NHS trust need a £400,000 yacht? – The Independent 15th October 2008
Hull’s rich seafaring heritage stretches back to 1299, when King Edward I granted the port a royal charter. The city’s notable maritime exports have since included a great deal of haddock and a deputy prime minister.
Now a new generation of mariners will be setting sail after the city’s primary care trust unveiled a £1.35m project to buy and run a yacht for unemployed youngsters – and, in doing so, sailed into a perfect storm of criticism.
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Why (some) women don’t scrub up as well as men – The Independent 15th October 2008
In matters of personal hygiene, it is men who are viewed as the grimy sex while women strive to keep them scrubbed. But a survey has revealed that female cleanliness is a myth. Women were up to three times more likely to have dirty hands than men.
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Better detection and drugs will cut cancer death rate by a sixth – The Independent 15th October 2008
Experts predict that risk of dying will continue to fall for the next 15 years
The risk of dying from cancer before the age of 84 is falling and will continue to do so for at least the next 15 years, experts predict.
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Learning from cancer map of the world – The Independent 14th October 2008
Understanding the types of the disease and where they strike can help us see just how much diet, climate and lifestyle affect our health
We think of cancer as one disease. In fact it is more than 100 different diseases, affecting all parts of the body with different causes and outcomes. The incidence varies widely across the world, influenced by diet, smoking and drinking, infection, climate and social factors. So what is this global pattern, and what light does it throw on the development of cancer?
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NHS trust wants to spend £400,000 on a yacht – The Times 15th October 2008
An NHS primary care trust has come up with a novel – and expensive – approach to improving public health. The East Yorkshire trust, now known as NHS Hull, is proposing to spend £400,000 on buying a yacht.
The trust believes that the purchase of the vessel, which would be funded from its surplus of £40 million, would help it to raise standards of public health in the area, which includes the constituency of the Health Secretary, Alan Johnson.
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Anaesthetist sacked over ‘whistleblowing’ – The Telegraph 15th October 2008
A senior anaesthetist was sacked for whistleblowing about the “dangerous” practices taking place at his hospital, an employment tribunal heard.
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‘King of Viagra’ jailed for counterfeit drugs – The Telegraph 14th October 2008
A doctor known as the ‘King of Viagra’ has been jailed for three years for his part in a multi-million-pound global conspiracy to sell fake medicine.
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Breast cancer sufferers denied life-prolonging drug – The Telegraph 14th October 2008
Breast cancer patients should be denied a life-prolonging treatment on the NHS the Government’s drug rationing body has said.
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Matrons to make comeback in battle against superbugs – The Telegraph 14th October 2008
Traditional matrons are set to make a comeback in Scottish hospitals as part of a campaign to tackle superbugs, SNP ministers have announced.
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NHS trust to buy £400,000 yacht – The Telegraph 14th October 2008
A health trust is planning to spend £400,000 on a 72ft yacht to help jobless teenagers make better “lifestyle choices”.
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A breath test that could pick up on diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cirrhosis of the liver is being developed by British scientists.
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Half of GP practices offering longer opening hours – The Telegraph 14th October 2008
Half of GPs are now opening in the evenings and at weekends hitting the Government’s target three months early, ministers announced.
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A plan by health chiefs to spend £1.75million on buying a yacht and launching a ’sailing academy’ for jobless teenagers has been condemned as a scandalous waste of money.
Bosses at NHS Hull, the primary care trust in one of Britain’s unhealthiest cities, say the project to train young people to sail the ocean-going vessel will improve their life prospects and have a positive long-term effect on their health.
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‘Hospital deceived me on the death of my beauty queen wife’ – Daily Mail 15th October 2008
A husband has spoken out angrily over the hospital failures which left his wife to die in agony.
Andrew Benson said he had been ‘deceived’ by health trust chiefs who assured him no errors were made in 29-year-old former beauty queen Madalina’s care.
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A retired businessman released from a mental hospital battered his wife to death before killing himself despite a series of warnings to doctors and police.
Roger Goswell, 66, beat his wife with a rubber mallet and stabbed her with a kitchen knife before driving his Smart car into a tree.
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More than half of GP practices are now offering extended hours to patients – meeting a Government target three months early, figures published today show.
Health minister Ben Bradshaw announced that 4,250 surgeries across England – 51.4 per cent of the total – were now opening on evenings and weekends.
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Specialist baby care ’stretched’ – BBC Health News 14th October 2008
Staffing shortages are stretching specialist baby care units to the limit, campaigners say.
Premature baby charity Bliss found just 20% of UK hospitals had enough staff to meet recommended care guidelines.
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Hygiene horror in commuter study – BBC Health News 14th October 2008
More than one in four commuters have bacteria which come from faeces on their hands, an investigation finds.
Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine swabbed 409 people at bus and train stations in five major cities around the UK.
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New era of GP choice ‘beckoning’ – BBC Health News 14th October 2008
A new era of choice in GP care is beckoning for patients, ministers say.
Over 50% of GP surgeries in England now offer extended opening in the evenings and at weekends, meeting a government target set earlier this year.
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NHS trust slammed over yacht fund – BBC Health News 14th October 2008
A health trust in East Yorkshire is facing criticism over plans to spend £400,000 on a yacht for unemployed youngsters.
Hull Primary Care Trust (PCT) will buy the 72ft (22m) boat if funding is secured to set up a new organisation called the Wilberforce Sailing Academy.
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Inquiry into C. Diff bug outbreak – BBC Health News 14th October 2008
A public inquiry is to be set up to examine the recent outbreak of Clostridium Difficile (C. Diff) in the Northern Health Trust area.
From July 2007 to August 2008, more than 60 deaths were linked to the bug.
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Suicide workshops for the over-50s – BBC Health News 13th October 2008
Australian euthanasia expert Dr Philip Nitschke says there is now enough support in the UK for his organisation Exit International to have a permanent presence here.
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‘King of Viagra’ jailed for fraud – BBC Health News 13th October 2008
A doctor has been jailed for three years for his role in a multi-million pound plot to sell fake medicines.
Dr George Patino, supposedly known online as the “King of Viagra”, sold thousands of counterfeit impotence tablets to customers via the web.
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Brain boost drugs ‘growing trend’ – BBC Health News 13th October 2008
Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, say experts.
Up to a fifth of adults, including college students and shift workers, may be using cognitive enhancers, a poll of 1,400 by Nature journal suggests.
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In response to the Iddon getting a flu jab and encouraging vulnerable people to get immunised story, thought I would mention that Tesco’s are offering flu jabs for £10 at the moment…..
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