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PEC proposals promise equality for clinicians and managers
Clinicians and managers will be expected to work together to take joint decisions on commissioning under radical proposals to reform professional executive committees.
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Welsh Assembly launches therapies strategy
Welsh health minister Dr Brian Gibbons has today launched the Welsh Assembly's strategy for improving therapy services.The strategy covers therapeutic services covering injury and health prevention, early intervention, acute care, rehabilitation, chronic condition management and long-term care. It identifies ten key and emerging roles that professionals can fulfil and develop.To ...
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Testicle-checking among British men triples
Cancer Research UK has released a new report which reveals that the number of young British men who check their testicles for signs of cancer has tripled in a decade. In 1990 only 10 per cent of men checked their testicles but this increased to more than 36 per cent ...
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NICE expands breast cancer drug options
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has announced that it is recommending the use of the hormonal therapies anastrozole, exemestane and letrozole for the treatment of women with early oestrogen receptor-positive invasive breast cancer following surgery to remove the tumours.The drugs will be available alongside existing breast cancer ...
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Warner publishes PEC consultation
Health minister Lord Warner today announced the publication of a consultation document on the future of primary care trust professional executive committees.The consultation follows the recent review of PECs, the body of doctors, nurses and health professionals that guide PCTs on priorities, policies and investment plans. The review, carried out ...
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HIV diagnoses up
An estimated 63,500 adults are now living with HIV in the UK, according to A Complex Picture, a report published today by the Health Protection Agency. This latest figure includes both those who have been diagnosed and also around a third (20,100) who remain unaware of their infection. The report ...
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BME service discrimination 'unethical and unlawful'
Black and minority ethnic mental health service users are being discriminated against in ways that are unethical and unlawful, a health minister has admitted.
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Equal but not the same
From next April, trusts will have a legal duty to demonstrate gender equity across all areas of service provision. But as the deadline approaches, the national picture is looking decidedly patchy. Gabriel Fleming looks at how it will work
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Predicting the future
Cutting emergency hospital admissions among those with long-term conditions would save the NHS millions. But how can those at risk be identified, traced and their needs addressed? Daloni Carlisle looks at two solutions
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'Leaflets don't cut it' - the danger of campaigns widening inequalities
National public health campaigns could contribute to a further widening of health inequalities, a public health minister has warned.
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NHS reconfiguration 'must benefit local communities'
NHS organisations can be a powerful force for good in regenerating local communities, health secretary Patricia Hewitt said today. She urged them to take account of tackling deprivation when reconfiguring local services.
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Living donors boost transplant success
Almost one in three kidney transplant patients got their kidney from a living donor last year, annual figures have revealed.Of 1,915 lifesaving kidney transplants, 31 per cent, the highest ever, were from living donors.UK Transplant figures show that 2,795 lives were saved by organ transplants last year, a rise from ...
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More pharmacies for England and Wales
Last year 146 new pharmacies opened in England and Wales and 23 closed, according to figures from the NHS Business Services Authority and Health of Wales Information Service.The number of prescription items dispensed by community pharmacies in England and Wales increased by 38.6 million to 713.5 million last year.To read ...
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Joint guidance for treatment of patients in health and social care
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence have issued joint guidance for the treatment of patients in health and social care.The guidelines cover the identification, treatment and care of people with dementia, and for the first time, healthcare professionals within the NHS ...
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Hewitt hints at resignation if NHS doesn't break even
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has hinted that she may resign if the NHS does not break even by the end of this financial year.Asked by the Commons select committee whether her job would be at risk if balance was not restored, Ms Hewitt said she would take 'personal responsibility' if ...