All Public health articles – Page 95
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HSJ KnowledgeDomestic violence: its cost and the success of prevention
The NHS has long been used to treating the results of domestic violence but targeting the causes and perpetrators is a new avenue in preventive healthcare. Stuart Shepherd reports
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DH rewrites top-ups guidance
The Department of Health has rewritten its guidance on co-payments following fears of increased bureaucracy for primary care trusts and hospitals.
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TB battle still not won
The number of cases of tuberculosis in the UK is “still too high”, the Health Protection Agency warns today.
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Cancer patient needs not being met
Four out of five nurses think the needs of people living with or after having cancer are not being met, according to a survey by charity Macmillan Cancer Support and HSJ sister magazine Nursing Times.
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News'Distressing failures' in NHS care for people with learning disabilities
A report into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities has uncovered “significant and distressing” failures in services across health and social care.
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CommentMichael White on the effect of unemployment on health
A flurry of excitement hit the Commons press gallery when it was rumoured health minister Ben Bradshaw had said unemployment would be good for British men.
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NewsPatient outcomes linked to nursing staff levels
The more nurses that a trust employs per bed the fewer of its patients are likely to die or to experience long hospital stays.
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NHS told to help staff get healthier
NHS organisations have been told to follow private companies’ example to help their staff get fitter - and save the health service an estimated £1bn a year.
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London unveils diabetes strategy
Healthcare for London has unveiled a three year strategy to transform diabetes care in the capital.
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NHS failing in duty to help tackle knife crime
Less than one in five hospital trusts are sharing information with the police on stabbings, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgePhil Hope on the future of social care
Phil Hope, the care services minister, explains his plans to widen the social care agenda to include public mental health
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HIV diagnoses drop, but rates still high in gay men
New HIV diagnoses in the UK fell slightly last year, but diagnosis rates among gay men were at their second highest level since recording began.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat can turn the tide of the obesity epidemic?
By mid-century the cost to the NHS of weight related health problems could double to more than £8bn and a quarter of UK children may be obese. Emma Dent asks what is being done about a huge challenge
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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Perks could be used to influence patients' choice of hospital
Hospitals should offer patients inducements to receive treatment during times when wards are less busy, new guidance on marketing in the NHS has suggested.
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Call for more research as cancer survival rates rise
The NHS cancer plan has improved survival rates in England but wide regional variations remain.
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CommentMichael White on NHS bad news
Oh dear, it is barely a week since I wrote elsewhere that everyone knows “the NHS is much better” nowadays. Since then there has been a steady trickle of bad news, from Mid Staffs trust and from Birmingham children’s hospital, and poor cancer mortality outcomes.
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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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HSJ KnowledgeThe north-south alcohol divide
The annual cost of alcohol harm to the NHS is nearly £3bn - and rising. Around 6 per cent of all hospital admissions in 2006-07 were related to alcohol and this figure is increasing by 80,000 every year, according to the government alcohol strategy Safe, Sensible, Social.