All Public health articles – Page 80
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NewsSwine flu bill less than feared
The bill picked up by the Welsh Assembly for dealing with swine flu was £30m smaller than some estimates, it has been revealed.
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News£36m for Scottish alcohol services
Health boards across Scotland are to share £36m to help tackle the country’s drink problem, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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HSJ KnowledgeRebooting the NHS IT programme
When the next government takes over the struggling national programme for IT in the NHS, it must breathe new life into this drive, says John Cruickshank
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Social Marketing and Public Health
This practical guide has a touch of ambition, says Russell Collins
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NewsNHS tainted blood decision due
A celebrated composer who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through infected NHS blood transfusions will learn the outcome of his legal challenge over compensation payments on Friday.
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NewsHPA issues volcanic ash advice
The Health Protection Agency has reassured people in the UK that ash from the volcanic eruption in Iceland will not cause “serious harm”.
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News‘Few quick fixes’ for London health inequalities
An “ambitious and far reaching” strategy to reduce health inequalities in the capital has been published by Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
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NewsPreventable disease warning
Doctors at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool have warned cs are reaching epidemic proportions.
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NewsKing's Fund: NHS needs rapid change to meet challenges
The NHS has addressed many of the challenges it faced in 1997 but needs to change rapidly to meet the big challenges it now faces, according to a major review of the NHS in England by the King’s Fund.
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NewsSwine flu vaccine deal agreed
The government has said it is cutting its swine flu vaccine deal with GlaxoSmithKline in a move that will see it pay two thirds of the original value - but receive just over a third of the doses.
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NewsScotland airs first suicide prevention TV advert
Scotland’s first ever suicide prevention advert has been broadcast on television.
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NewsSwine flu 'hit credibility' of WHO
Public confidence in the World Health Organisation has ebbed away because the dangers of the swine flu pandemic were overstated, a draft report to the Council of Europe seen by The Guardian has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS public engagement: showcase services with all the fun of the fair
Three large NHS organisations in Kent recognised its summer county show was an ideal venue for getting people familiar with their NHS, reports Alison Moore
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NewsBetter alcohol services could save hospitals £393m
Tens of thousands of hospital admissions for alcohol could be prevented each year if services to help drinkers were improved, a new report claims.
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NewsObesity charity criticises QOF for incentivising list making
Doctors are being paid to compile lists of obese patients and then do nothing with them, the chair of the National Obesity Forum has claimed.
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NewsTuberculosis care funding criticised
London health authorities have so far failed to provide funding for a mobile unit that treats tuberculosis among homeless people and prisoners, a health minister said today.
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NewsQuestions over national cold weather plan
Calls for the creation of a national “cold weather plan” have sparked concerns over who should deliver it among health and social care, and primary and acute care.
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NewsDH action needed to fill gaps in NHS data
Filling huge gaps in primary care data is vital if commissioning is to become more effective, public health experts have warned.
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CommentAndy McKeon: NHS cash alone won’t end health inequalities
One strategy every six months under Labour has failed to produce results for children under five
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News£21bn spent on health inequalities has had little impact
There is little to show for the £21bn in annual NHS spending allocated to reduce health in-equalities, the Audit Commission has concluded.