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 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, 8th October 2009 by admin
Chancellor Alistair Darling has recommended a pay freeze for 40,000 senior public servants in 2010/11. He has written to salary review bodies calling on them to freeze the pay of judges, senior NHS managers and GPs. In addition, about 700,000 middle-ranking public servants, including doctors, dentists and prison officers, will get a rise of between [...]
Tags: freeze, freeze pay, GP, manager, NHS, pay
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Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by admin
THE NHS today enters a “new dawn” as the vestiges of the internal market are removed from the health service in Wales. Health Minister Edwina Hart has promised the seven new health boards will signal the start of a more “streamlined” and “citizen-focused” NHS. And she has hinted that another reorganisation could be on the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 6th October 2009 by admin
New figures indicate that smoking is costing the NHS in Wales more than £7m every week. A report commissioned by Ash Wales and British Heart Foundation Cymru reveals that smoking related diseases cost NHS Wales an estimated £386m in 2007/08. Smoking accounts for around 22% of adult hospital admission costs, over £235m every year, the [...]
Tags: Ash Wales, British Heart Foundation, British Heart Foundation Cymru, cost, NHS, smoking, wales
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Posted on Monday, 5th October 2009 by admin
All 152 NHS organisations responsible for out of hours GP services in England have been ordered to review patient safety following the case of a German doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first shift in Britain. Primary care trusts, which commission emergency overnight and weekend care for millions of people, will receive letters [...]
Tags: GP, NHS, patient safety
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Posted on Sunday, 4th October 2009 by admin
More than 200 NHS staff are being put through their final training in the UK before being deployed to Afghanistan. Most are from the Territorial Army’s 256 Field Hospital, which draws volunteers from London and south-east England. For the next two days they will be based in a giant warehouse outside York, that has been [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Helmand, NHS
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Posted on Sunday, 4th October 2009 by admin
Health Secretary Andy Burnham yesterday pledged to scrap many hospital parking charges in England – as he insisted Labour was the true party of the NHS. Mr Burnham said it was unfair that relatives were put off from visiting patients because of the costs of leaving a car. He told the conference: “For families of [...]
Tags: car park fees, NHS
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by admin
There is never a good time to have a heart attack, but the wise person afflicted with clogging arteries might want to be especially careful in future to avoid stress and watch the diet as August rolls around. The NHS, it is revealed today, has its very own black Wednesday, when death rates go up [...]
Tags: doctor, junior doctor, NHS
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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd March 2009 by admin
Hardly a day goes by without more bad news about the economy. But what about the UK’s biggest employer – the NHS? The prime minister’s “information revolution” for public services has been announced with much fanfare. Gordon Brown says he wants to create an Amazon-style online system to allow the public to rate services, including [...]
Tags: credit crunch, NHS, recession
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