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Welsh cancer funding announced
Welsh cancer services are to receive £4.5m of extra funding from the Welsh Assembly government.Minister for health and social services Dr Brian Gibbons said the funds were to support the implementation of recommendations from a recent review of cancer services.
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Postcode lottery for dental care
A survey by consumer magazine Which? has found big regional variations in the availability of NHS dental care and a continuing lack of practitioners taking on new patients.Its research showed 36 per cent of practices are taking on new NHS patients. The areas with the highest proportion of practices doing ...
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First anniversary of Scottish smoking ban welcomed
First Minister Jack McConnell has welcomed the first anniversary of the Scottish ban on smoking in enclosed public places.Mr McConnell said the move was one of the greatest achievements of devolution.Read the press release here
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Patchy progress for endoscopy services
Long waits for endoscopies have been eliminated in many parts of the country but some areas are still experiencing long delays, according to a report by the Healthcare Commission.In the South East half of all patients had been waiting more than 26 weeks for the procedure, while less than 0.2 ...
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Jan Walmsley on leadership clusters
Clustering leaders together for mutual support can not only.aid development and deal with management strategies but also be the solution to system problems beyond the regional
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Training school nurses in mental health
The Health Foundation is funding a project showing school nurses how to recognise and manage mental health problems in young people
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New labour: the Welsh clinical pathway for childbirth
Swansea University professor of midwifery Billie Hunter has researched into the clinical pathway in Wales, a system designed to document childbirth more carefully
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NICE issues home births warning
Women should be warned that babies born at home have a higher risk of dying, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has warned.Its guidance suggests women be reassured that the risk of their baby dying during childbirth is low wherever they are born - 5.1 deaths per 1,000 ...
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Minister launches smoke ban countdown
The government is stepping up its campaign to help businesses get ready for the smoking ban, which comes into force on 1 July.Launching the 100-day countdown, public health minister Caroline Flint said: 'The new law will protect everyone from the harm of second-hand smoke at work and in public places, ...
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More funding needed for neglected diseases, says BMA
A British Medical Association report published today says that since 2000 there has been a resurgence in drugs to treat diseases such as malaria and leprosy, but that governments across the world have failed to invest in them.BMA International Committee chair Dr Edwin Borman said: 'This report gives hope to ...
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Tuberculosis rise continues
Provisional figures released by the Health Protection Agency for 2006 show that cases of tuberculosis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have increased 2 per cent from 8,008 cases reported in 2005 to 8,171 in 2006.London continues to account for the highest proportion of cases (42 per cent), but provisional ...
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The urgent care muddle may mean more nights to forget
The transfer of responsibility for out-of-hours care from family doctors to primary care trusts has been anything but smooth. And uncertainty remains on how services will develop in future. Alison Moore looks at the options for a politically contentious issue
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Consistency and agreement are needed to spread success
'The MPs' committee calls for lessons learned from the turnaround programme to be shared. But evidence for its effectiveness is opaque'.
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Minister defends research plans
Science minister Malcolm Wicks has defended plans to reform medical research to align it more closely with the needs of the health service.Speaking to the science and technology select committee yesterday, he said a joint bid was being developed to set up an office for strategic co-ordination of health research.The ...
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HSE chair calls for improved workplace health regulation
Health and Safety Executive chair Bill Callaghan has called for employers and unions to work more closely together to promote health and well-being at work.Delivering the annual lecture in memory of former ACAS chair Sir Pat Lowry, he said informal self-regulation would be more efficient than anything imposed by HSE ...
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Experts split over Tories' big idea for public health
The Conservative Party's plan to transform public health by creating independent local budgets has divided experts.
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Long-term care patients out of pocket
Primary care trusts failed to reimburse fully patients who funded their own long-term care - because of poor Department of Health guidelines, the health ombudsman has said.
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Asset-sharing will limit the scope for dispute between the NHS and local government
'The commissioning process must have an injection of public involvement at every stage but particularly at the very beginning when need is assessed'
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Flexible working guidance for carers and employers
The charities Working Families and Help the Hospices are to publish guidance on flexible working.The publications, one aimed at employers and one at carers for the terminally ill will be available from 5 April, to tie in with the new Work and Families Act, which comes into force next month.Read ...
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Information Centre business plan launched
The Information Centre for health and social care will today launch its business plan for 2007-08 and its first strategy.The centre hopes to develop an 'information culture' across health and social care, to inform decision-making and improve service quality.