All Public health articles – Page 67
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NewsCancer care overhaul needed, says Macmillan
A leading cancer charity is calling for an overhaul of NHS care for cancer survivors, as the number of people overcoming the disease looks set to double over the next 20 years.
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NewsLanlsey food regulation plans questioned
Pro-regulation campaigners have called into question the health secretary’s declaration that the government was not interested in “nannying” people about their food choices, despite rising levels of obesity.
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NewsAmbulances refitted to transport larger patients
Ambulance fleets across the country are being revamped with wider stretchers and lifting gear to cope with the increasing number of obese patients, it has been reported.
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CommentPublic health tremors could unleash a monster
The double whammy of setting up a new national public health service (Public Health England) and returning responsibility for health improvement to local government is the most earth-shaking shift in public health since the abolition of medical officers of health in 1974.
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NewsThree per cent of public health funds could go to Mayor
The Mayor of London could take three percent of the money allocated to councils for public health in the capital.
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CommentThe Health Bill - rising to the challenge
The Health Bill sets out a vision for commissioning where innovative consortia of GPs take the lead in transforming our health and social care systems from being demand-led and provider-oriented to being patient-centred and outcomes-focused.
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NewsGovernment invites councils to pilot health and wellbeing boards
The Department of Health has written to local authority leaders inviting them to become pilots for health and wellbeing boards.
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NewsLansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses
Health secretary Andrew Lansley today defended sweeping NHS reforms against claims that GPs would qualify for banker-style bonuses and private firms would win major contracts.
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Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference
On the day the government’s radical reforms for the NHS were laid out in full in the Health and Social Care Bill, health secretary Andrew Lansley spoke to the audience at HSJ and LGC’s Public Health Congress about what the changes mean for the health service and the people who ...
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NewsUK breast cancer rate blamed on obesity and alcohol
The UK ranks 11th out of 50 countries for rates of breast cancer, according to a new report.
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NewsGovernment 'may take over flu vaccine ordering'
GPs could be forced to hand over control of ordering flu vaccine after complaints about this year’s programme, the government’s director of immunisation has suggested.
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NewsHealth secretary to have extensive powers to 'prescribe' public health functions
The Health and Social Care Bill includes wide and varied powers for the secretary of state to dictate council’s public health activities.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow alcohol taxation can improve health outcomes
Alcohol misuse is one of the growing public health epidemics of this century and taxation can encourage a healthier and more responsible lifestlye for drinkers.
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NewsPublic health directors in grip of health secretary
The health secretary will have the final say over the appointment and dismissal of directors of public health.
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NewsMake-up and duties of health and wellbeing boards revealed
The precise make-up of the new health and wellbeing boards has been set out in the Health and Social Care Bill.
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NewsDH ordered to disclose cost of swine flu vaccine
The Department of Health has been ordered to release data on the costs of last year’s swine flu vaccination programme, after it failed to comply fully with a Freedom of Information Act request.
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NewsPublic health agenda more important than NHS, says Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the “obsessive” focus on commissioning consortia, ahead of the publication of the health and social care bill later today.
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NewsScrap exception reporting by GPs to protect population health
Exception reporting, which allows GPs to exclude patients from their quality and outcomes framework assessment, must be abolished, writes Asthma UK chief executive Neil Churchill in this week’s HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility
It remains a guiding principle of this column that any policy opposed by the British Medical Association can’t be all bad.
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NewsMarmot voices 'nudge' doubts
The president of the British Medical Association has voiced doubts over the government’s “nudge” approach to public health.