All Primary care articles – Page 257
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New study claims that the pill may cut cancer risk
The contraceptive pill may reduce the risk of cancer for most women, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal.
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Call for HIV test kit review
The Terrence Higgins Trust is urging the government to change the law and allow people to buy and use home test kits for HIV.
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Roadmap
Junior health minister Lord Darzi's polyclinics have received yet more criticism from clinicians as the Royal College of GPs has published its vision of the future.The Roadmap joins the British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance in criticising the term polyclinics and suggests an alternative model.The report says: 'We caution ...
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...
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Early wins, early lessons
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Practice based commissioning: early wins, early lessons released today.The report looks in depth at instances of PBC working well and saving money across the country.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to ...
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Practice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Early wins, early lessons, released today.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned PBC would ...
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Raj Persaud on trade-offs
If you could be given a money substitute for charming nurses, how much would compensate you for their absence?
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Improving Lives: Saving lives
The East of England strategic health authority has developed 12 pledges aiming to raise public perception of the health service and improve patient experience.Improving Lives: Saving lives, launched on Monday for consultation, details the vision of the SHA - to be the best health service in England - and ...
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men's health
North Tyneside PCT is running a project to encourage elusive male patients to get health check ups.Men who visited the Asda supermarket in Benton yesterday were able to get a health check at the check out with their weekly shopping.North Tyneside PCT’s Community Health Development Team and the Pitstop project ...
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Medical students need free prescribing guide
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the government's decision to stop supplying free copies of the British National Formulary to medical students.
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Ofcare may not cover public health
Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has voiced concerns that the NHS's new super-regulator may be given too narrow a remit.Ms Walker insisted Ofcare, set to swallow up the Healthcare Commission in April 2009, must have the power to regulate and assess NHS organisations on health and health inequalities as ...
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BMA hits out at 'focus on money'
More progress is needed on the 18-week GP referral to hospital treatment target, the British Medical Association has said.
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scotland new bill
A bill to introduce directly elected health boards is part of the Scottish government’s first legislative programme, which was announced last week.The proposed Local Healthcare Bill will be based on public consultation, due to begin this autumn. The move is intended to improve public engagement with health services.First minister Alex ...
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Mixed results for public health
The Department of Health's performance chief has fired a warning shot over public health targets following 'mixed' quarterly results in sexual health and stop-smoking services.
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Specialist doctors 'left in lurch'
A damming report has criticised primary care trust management of specialist doctors working in the community.Specialists employed directly by PCTs feel professionally isolated and that their needs are 'ignored', the NHS Alliance has warned.
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Time to step up to patient-centred care
Mental health clients using services in the community can become commissioners in their own right, says Ailsa Claire
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£10m for health at work
Health minister Ivan Lewis has announced £10m funding to improve health at work.
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Plans for flu jabs released
The flu immunisation campaign to encourage uptake of the flu vaccine will be launched on 1 October, the Department of Health has announced.
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North East still suffering from poor public service outcomes
Pockets of poor public service outcomes in the North East are to blame for the region's poor outcomes overall, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research North.
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David Peat on sharing good practice
'Our European health colleagues listened intently as I told them how our working together principles operated'