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Morning-after pill in bathroom cabinet 'fails to reduce pregnancies' - Daily Telegraph 17th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:24:02 +0000

"Providing women with the morning-after pill in advance to keep in case they need it, does not reduce the unwanted pregnancy rate, a review of the evidence has found. "

Tags: Pregnancy Contraception News Health UHN Daily Telegraph

NHS should cut 30,000 beds to 'save money', think tank warns - Daily Telegraph 17th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:22:14 +0000

"Tens of thousands of NHS beds should be cut to save money and improve patient care, a think tank has warned. "

Tags: Hospitals NHS Organisational Design News Health UHN Primary Care

Ban on sitting on hospital beds 'dehumanising' GP warns - Daily Telegraph 17th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:21:31 +0000

"Rules banning hospital doctors and visitors from sitting on patients' beds are 'dehumanising' and should be scrapped, a GP has said. "

Tags: Infection Control Health News Hospitals UHN Daily Telegraph

Head of Sony calls for healthier alternative to popcorn in cinemas - Daily Telegraph 17th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:20:13 +0000

"The head of Sony Pictures has suggested that cinemas should offer healthier snacks to help fight obesity and give audiences a broader range of food choices, rather than popcorn, fizzy drinks and chocolate. "

Tags: Diet Nutrition Obesity Health News UHN Daily Telegraph

NHS trust apologises for German doctor's botched operation - The Guardian 17th January 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:18:54 +0000

"An NHS trust has apologised to the family of a woman who died shortly after a German locum surgeon botched an operation on her hip. Ena Dickinson, 94, died two months after mistakes by Dr Werner Kolb left her unable to walk. During the operation in August 2008 at Grantham hospital in Lincolnshire, he removed bone that should have been left and severed an artery. The only reason Dickinson did not die immediately was because a consultant stepped in, an inquest heard yesterday."

Tags: Mortality Health News UHN Negligence Surgery Medical Staff Professional Discipline Jurisprudence The Guardian

Healthcare watchdog sharpens its teeth to improve patient care - The Guardian 17th February 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:39:35 +0000

"Often criticised for having no bite, the Care Quality Commission is being given tough powers to ensure that patients are paramount"

Tags: Clinical Governance Quality NHS Health News UHN The Guardian

Quarter of NHS trusts failing hygiene tests - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:37:37 +0000

"NHS watchdog Care Quality Commission finds blood spattered walls and filthy ambulances"

Tags: Hygiene Infection Control Hospitals Ambulance Services NHS UHN Health News The Guardian

No way to guarantee a 'good death' - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:33:33 +0000

"We don't talk about death or make preparations as we should. But you can't always stop dying being nasty, brutal or chaotic"

Tags: Palliative Care Health News UHN Mortality The Guardian

Don't be put off 'bothering' your GP - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:31:28 +0000

"The Self Care Campaign is telling people not to see their GP with minor ailments. As a doctor, take my advice – ignore this"

Tags: Self Care Financial Management NHS Primary Care Health News UHN The Guardian

Brown opens new Sure Start centre - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:30:51 +0000

"Prime minister says Conservatives would cut funding by £200m, forcing children's centres to close"

Tags: Child Care Health News UHN The Guardian

Market is just not healthy for NHS - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:30:24 +0000

"The evidence is widespread: the profit motive delivers benefits for management consultants, not patients"

Tags: Markets NHS Financial Management Health News UHN The Guardian

The NHS is failing on domestic violence - The Guardian 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:29:44 +0000

"Clinicians must work harder to spot the signs of abuse in women and children and start asking patients routine questions"

Tags: Violent People Domestic Abuse NHS Health News UHN The Guardian

Quarter of NHS trusts fail to meet hygiene standards - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:27:35 +0000

"A quarter of NHS Trusts are compounding the risk of hospital infections by failing to meet core standards on hygiene, the UK's healthcare regulator has found. An ongoing inspection programme by The Care Quality Commission (CQC), which replaced the work of the now disbanded Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection, found 42 of the 167 trusts inspected last year to be "in breach" of NHS registration requirements."

Tags: Hygiene Infection Control Hospitals Ambulance Services NHS UHN Health News The Independent

Brown's home care plans set for defeat in the Lords - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:26:32 +0000

"Gordon Brown's flagship scheme for free home care for the elderly and infirm is heading for a crushing defeat today in the House of Lords. Peers of all parties are lining up to condemn the plans – announced by the Prime Minister at last year's Labour conference – as rushed, under-funded and counterproductive. Mr Brown claimed that more than 400,000 people would benefit from this autumn, including 280,000 older and disabled adults who would be guaranteed free care."

Tags: Domiciliary Care Older People Financial Management Health News UHN Politics The Independent

Condom TV ads get prime-time all-clear - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:25:05 +0000

"After decades of protecting the public from prophylactics, advertising regulators have confirmed there are to be less stringent rules governing condom ads on prime-time television."

Tags: Contraception Sexual Health Mass Media Health News UHN Advertising The Independent

Politicians' cosy consensus on NHS 'must be broken' - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:24:24 +0000

"No institution is more venerated than the NHS. Despite billions of pounds of investment over the last decade, which has seen it grow enormously and employ tens of thousands of extra doctors and nurses, it is regarded as untouchable. All political parties are agreed that it must be protected from cuts. None of them is proposing widescale reform."

Tags: NHS Politics Health News UHN Hospitals The Independent

UK tuberculosis cases rise by 5.5 per cent - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:23:17 +0000

"Cases of tuberculosis rose by more than 5% last year, prompting the Health Protection Agency (HPA) to warn today that the UK must remain vigilant. The total number of UK cases rose to 9,153 in 2009, up 5.5% on the 8,679 of 2008, according to provisional figures from the HPA. "

Tags: Epidemiology Tuberculosis Health News UHN The Independent

Minor ailments cost NHS £2 billion annually - The Independent 16th March 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:22:20 +0000

"People seeing GPs for minor ailments such as coughs and colds are having a "catastrophic impact" on the NHS, leading healthcare professionals warned today. Common treatable ailments now account for almost a fifth of GP appointments and are costing the health service an "astonishing" £2 billion annually, they said. "

Tags: Self Care Financial Management NHS Primary Care Health News UHN The Independent

Health trusts warned over poor infection control - The Times 17th February 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:18:55 +0000

"Five health trusts were issued with warnings about serious breaches in hospital infection control by the health regulator last year. An assessment of hospital infection standards resulted in the five warnings from the Care Quality Commission but the trusts responded quickly to all five warnings, which are no longer in a “red flag” category on the issue, the regulator said. "

Tags: Infection Control Hospitals Ambulance Services NHS UHN Health News The Times

Woman died after 'worst botched operation' seen in British hosptial - The Times 17th February 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:18:05 +0000

"An elderly woman died after a German locum doctor carried out one of the “worst botched operations” seen in a British hospital, an inquest heard yesterday. Ena Dickinson, a former NHS volunteer, was left unable to walk after the locum made a series of errors during a routine hip operation at Grantham & District Hospital. "

Tags: Mortality Health News UHN Negligence Surgery Medical Staff Professional Discipline Jurisprudence The Times