All Off Diary articles – Page 10
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Advertising guilt
There is nothing like parenthood for laying on a massive guilt trip - something the Department of Health harnessed for a series of adverts in which small children talk about how they are not as scared of the dark or monsters under the bed as they are of their mum ...
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Care combat
A new month, a new season and a new dawn for health and social care inspection as super-regulator the Care Quality Commission came into being on 1 April. And among the million and one things it has to do, upping its internet profile should be on the list.
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CommunityOld school medicine
As everyone knows, despite ever increasing scientific advances, getting decidedly old school can sometimes be the best medicine. But it takes a strong stomach to read in the British Medical Journal that recent studies have proved using larval (maggot) therapy to treat leg ulcers has similar health and cost benefits ...
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CommunityFT logo's a no-go
Take a look at this little design effort. No, it’s not a (very) early design of the European Commission flag, but the emblem the Foundation Trust Network has conjured up to mark the fifth anniversary of the first ten foundation trusts this month.
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CommunityAnti-obesity row turns sour
The anti-obesity row is turning sour. Computer games makers have reacted with fury to adverts from government campaign Change 4Life that depict a small boy sitting on a sofa playing with a games console, underneath the headline: “Risk an early death, just do nothing.”
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CommunitySnack attack
Poor Alan Johnson. No doubt obliged to rise at dawn – all the better for spending more time with his red boxes – he probably hardly gets the chance to grab a cup of coffee in the morning.And then when he does have a chance to tuck into something tasty ...
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Too fat to work
The Chawner family of Blackburn, Lancashire, whom you may know from a less than successful appearance on TV’s The X Factor by daughter Emma and newspaper stories detailing every step of their eviction by the local council, have told Closer magazine they are too fat to work.