All Health Service Journal articles in 12 November 2007
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Figures spark fresh concern over dental contracts
Nearly half of dentists faced having payments taken back after failing to meet targets in the first year of the new NHS dental contract, reveal statistics obtained by the British Dental Association.The association said many of the targets were unfair and called on primary care trusts to take a 'constructive, ...
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Chief medical officer should resign, say junior doctors
Junior doctors have repeated calls for England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson to resign over changes to training that 'messed up thousands of doctors' lives'.
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Health and Social Care Bill published
New legislation designed to modernise and bring together health and social care services was launched by health minister Ben Bradshaw today.
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Call for more psychiatric beds in Northern Ireland
More psychiatrists and mental health inpatient facilities are needed to help stem the 'rising tide of suicides' in Northern Ireland, say doctors.
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Services to remember victims of road accidents
More than 40 religious services will take place across the UK on Sunday to remember people killed or injured in road accidents.
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ISTC programme slashed
Only three out of 16 independent sector treatment and diagnostic schemes have been given the final go ahead following a review of phase 2 of the programme by the Department of Health.
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Progress reported at infection-hit Stoke Mandeville
Stoke Mandeville Hospital has made 'substantial progress' to prevent and manage healthcare-associated infections, the Healthcare Commission has said.
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Obesity drugs do not work, study shows
Anti-obesity drugs lead to only a 'modest' weight loss and many patients who take them remain significantly obese or overweight, research published by the British Medical Journal has found.
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'Incompetence' over junior doctors
The Conservatives have accused the government of incompetence following news that there will be three applications for every training place for junior doctors this year.
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News rules for pharamaceutical companies
UK-based pharmaceutical companies will have to make explicit their relationship with patient organisations following the publication of new European rules.Pharmaceutical companies operating in the UK must abide by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's code of conduct, but that will now need to be changed to reflect to new ...
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Mixed response to plans for pharmacy funding
Plans to transfer central funding for pharmacies to primary care trust budgets are backed by the NHS but opposed by many pharmacies.
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DoH releases diagnostic waiting times for September
Diagnostics waiting times and activity data for September has been published by the Department of Health.
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North West signs contract with private mental health provider
North West commissioners have contracted an independent provider to fill a gap in secure mental health services for men in Cheshireand Merseyside.
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Welsh MPs quiz health minister on budget
The Welsh Assembly's health, well-being and local government committee will today question health and social services minister Edwina Hart on the government's draft budget.
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£31m for children's mental health services
The government has announced it is spending £31m on increasing bed capacity and improving facilities in child and adolescent mental health services.The funding has been split between 17 projects designed to help eliminate the inappropriate use of adult psychiatric wards for children and young people.
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Government should tackle excessive drinking
The government should implement tougher measures to tackle excessive drinking, and alcohol producers, sellers and advertisers should take more responsibility for preventing harm to health, says a report on public health ethics published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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Missing COPD millions must be found
The British Lung Foundation says people in areas with a higher than average risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease should ask their doctor for a lung test.The charity has pinpointed areas where people are at the greatest risk of being hospitalised with the disease, but says around 2.8 million ...
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Welsh infection control measures introduced
Healthcare settings in Wales will have to introduce infection control measures as part of a strategy released by the Welsh Assembly.
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Care services minister to host social care web chat
Care services minister Ivan Lewis will hold a web chat tomorrow at 2pm about the Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign, how to champion social care and how to recruit more staff to the sector.
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Health alliance moves to cut alcohol-related disease
The Alcohol Health Alliance UK has called for more to be done to prevent the rise in alcohol-related disease.