All Public health articles – Page 97
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News
Scottish health minister Shona Robison takes on new brief
Scottish health minister Shona Robison is to take on responsibility for sport, following a reshuffle of the Scottish parliament.
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HSJ Knowledge
The homeless and health
Initiatives to wrestle with the health consequences of homelessness are deprived of a coherent national strategy, say campaigners. Mark Gould hears the growing calls for the NHS to take the lead
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News
Measles cases rise to record high
Last year saw the highest number of measles cases in England and Wales since records began, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.
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Council wins grant to investigate inequalities
A council has won a national grant to undertake a five-month inquiry into inequalities in primary care funding, following an HSJ exposé last year.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on healthcare's false economy
Just in case we thought Keynesian economics might protect us from the credit crunch, Nick Timmins of the Financial Times used his keynote presentation at an anniversary event for world class commissioning to demonstrate that we will be highly unlikely to enjoy growth reaching 3 per cent by 2011.
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News
MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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NICE lacks GP input says NHS Alliance
The NHS Alliance has given muted approval to Department of Health proposals to change the quality and outcomes framework GP bonus scheme.
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Comment
Mental health promotion: healthiness is all in the mind
Andrew McCullough argues public health messages need a makeover so people base their lifestyles on an understanding of wellbeing that ties mental and physical health together
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News
New alcohol guidelines aim to protect young people
Guidelines drawn up by the Scottish government and drinks firms body the Alcohol Industry Partnership aim to promote responsible drinking and ensure young people are not targeted.
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News
DH launches children's health survey
The Department of Health has launched its biggest ever survey of children's health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Improving NHS dementia care
With the long awaited dementia strategy finally here, the race is on to overcome the stigma surrounding the condition and spread the word about available treatments. Emma Dent reports
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Comment
Daphne Austin on priority politics
With its use of selective stories, partial facts and opinion from a restricted range of experts presenting only a narrow range of insights, the current dialogue on priority setting resembles propaganda more than it does debate.
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News
Government boosts flu pandemic drug stockpile
The government has awarded contracts to double supplies of antiviral drugs to treat pandemic flu.
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HSJ Knowledge
Watch on suicide and self harm
There has been intense media interest in the deaths of several young people in the Bridgend area of South Wales.
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News
NHS looking across the pond to Obama's cures
In Barack Obama's overflowing in-tray is a file marked 'healthcare'. Michael Macdonnell and Douglas Noble explore how he will increase coverage and control costs and what UK managers should watch
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HSJ Knowledge
Social marketing: the medium is the message
Health promotion suffers from a 'conspiracy of passive failure'. Could work in the North West turn it around, asks Stuart Shepherd
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Comment
Media Watch: social marketing
The NHS is in the middle of a social marketing drive the like of which has never been seen before.
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Comment
Health inequalities in learning disabilities
Essential changes to learning disabilities services will have knock-on benefits for many other patients, who will gain from better approaches to communication and delivery
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Leader
Maternity matters: stop passing the buck
The commitments made in Maternity Matters are due to be met by the end of the year.
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News
Personal health budgets may spark tension between services
Personal health budgets for patients to spend as they wish will radically change commissioners' roles, the NHS Confederation has warned.