Posted on Monday, 28th December 2009 by admin
Tests for anthrax poisoning on a heroin user who was suspected of having the condition have proved negative. The patient, who was admitted to Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary on Christmas Day, has skin lesions – a typical symptom of the condition. Read more
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Posted on Saturday, 26th December 2009 by admin
Smokers are being offered a free “quit kit”, featuring calming audio downloads and a stress toy, in an effort to help them kick their habit in the new year. The NHS Stop Smoking Quit Kit, ordered online or over the phone, will provide smokers with a range of aids to help them to give up, [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 26th December 2009 by admin
The increases include a 43 per cent rise in the costs of managers, while spending on clerical staff rose by 78 per cent at Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), which decide how NHS funds should be used. Meanwhile, their expenditure on management consultants and temporary staff more than doubled. Patients’ groups accused the Government of wasting [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd December 2009 by admin
Pharmaceutical companies are being forced to cut the price of high cost cancer drugs for the first time as a result of a tough new approach by the NHS medicines watchdog, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice). In the latest example, Nice has today announced approval of trabectedin, a drug for soft tissue sarcoma, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by admin
THE number of NHS staff earning wages totalling £100,000 or more is costing the Scottish taxpayer a staggering £230 million a year. Almost 2,000 Scottish health workers collected six-figure pay packets. Click here to read more.
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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by admin
The number of recorded assaults on staff working at Oxfordshire NHS trusts has increased by 53% in three years. More than 1,042 attacks were recorded at the six health trusts in 2008/9, according to figures from the NHS Security Management Service. This compared to 683 in 2006/7. The biggest increase was at the Oxfordshire and [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by admin
Newcastle and Gateshead have secured a European society’s flagship annual conference with over 1,100 delegates descending on the ‘twin cities’ from across the world in October 2011. NewcastleGateshead Convention Bureau helped secure the 52nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) during their recent attendance at the global meetings exhibition, EIBTM, in [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 22nd November 2009 by admin
If your home is affected by a flood, it’s important to clean up fully to help protect the health of you and your family. Floodwater and sewage often leaves a muddy deposit but previous flooding and sewage contamination has shown that the risk to health is small, and you won’t need any booster immunisations or antibiotics. If you [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 15th October 2009 by admin
NHS Luton and Bedfordshire temporarily suspended the cervical cancer vaccine in the area, following the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl in Coventry just hours after having the jab. The Department of Health ordered the batch of vaccine to be quarantined as a precaution, but insists there is no reason to stop the programme. Click [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by admin
On the NHS Direct website on Friday, a young woman asked: “Should I go to my GP, or just not get it done at all because I heard someone in England died from the jab?” She meant the cervical cancer vaccine and the horribly sad death of Natalie Morton, who collapsed shortly after being given [...]
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