All Health inequalities articles – Page 16
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HSJ Local
Trust told to do more for people with restricted mobility
PERFORMANCE: Gloucestershire Care Services Trust has said it needs to improve its services for people with mobility issues, hearing loss, sight loss and communication difficulties.
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Supplements
Commissioning supplement: Health inequalities tell a tale of data neglect
Health inequalities
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HSJ Local
Fewer smokers using NHS cessation services in Islington
PERFORMANCE: The number of smokers using cessation services in the Islington area has dropped markedly – raising concerns that the local CCG will not achieve its quality premium target for 2014-15
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HSJ Knowledge
Take the local lead on health inequalities
A new strategic approach to improve public health
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HSJ Knowledge
Root out inequality in breast cancer care
Asian women in the UK have very high incidence of the disease
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HSJ Knowledge
Tackling the race issue at the heart of mental health care
Why are so many young black men subject to compulsory treatment?
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Comment
The idea of charging for care may have been killed for good
The Barker commission delivers a huge blow
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Comment
Election 2015: Let GPs set up 'free school' style clinics
Free clinics would raise primary care standards
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News
Action urged on health of homeless
Action is being urged to help give homeless people the treatment they need for a range of physical and mental health problems.
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News
CCGs target steep cuts in avoidable admissions and deaths
Clinical commissioning groups have set themselves ambitious targets to cut avoidable admissions and improve patient experience over the next five years, plans submitted to NHS England reveal.
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News
Mental health rising as reason for helping homeless
Mental health has become an increasingly significant reason for housing homeless people, an analysis of figures recorded by councils show.
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News
One hundred practices 'may shut amid cuts'
Around 100 GP practices could be forced to close due to cuts in national funding, leaving patients in rural areas without a GP, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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News
Ambulance 'postcode lottery' costing lives
About 2,500 lives a year are being lost due to a “postcode lottery” in how ambulances respond to heart attack patients, a former service boss has claimed.
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HSJ Partners
We are failing to meet the palliative care needs of BME communities
Barriers to care need to be torn down
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News
DH acknowledges 'first fall in life expectancy since 2003'
The Department of Health has acknowledged that life expectancy at 75 – one of its corporate indicators – fell in 2012 for the first time in many years.
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal access to the NHS: the next step
A new system can create a fairer NHS for patients
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HSJ Knowledge
How trusts have increased equality for staff and patients
Increase diversity in NHS senior management
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HSJ Knowledge
Dementia: the untold story of our BME population
More focused commissioning is needed for BME patients