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Catalogue of abuse in NHS care homes - The Guardian 17th January 2007
The NHS faces being stripped of its responsibility for learning disability services after inspectors today issue the second damning report in six months into the care of some of the most vulnerable members of society. People with learning disabilities had been subjected to physical and sexual abuse at a hospital in London, according to an investigation by the Healthcare Commission. One member of staff was jailed for six years last summer after being charged with rape of a woman resident who was considered unable to give consent due to her low mental age. A second staff member had been given a suspended sentence for a sex offence against the same woman a year earlier.
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Bleak house - The Guardian 17th January 2007
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Physical and sex abuse exposed in care homes - The Independent 17th January
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Sex attacks and abuse at care homes - The Telegraph 17th January 2007
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Crisis in care - The Telegraph 17th January 2007
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Learning disability care slammed - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
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Invest in our ears - The Guardian 17th January 2007
The bareness of the waiting room at my local audiology clinic says it all. After a busy morning - it is now noon - there are just two people waiting. A television apparently tuned into a children's programme is high on the wall but the picture is blurred and the sound barely audible. Good job there are no children about. I am there to arrange my graduation from analogue aids, which I have been using in both ears for six years, to digital. I was hardly in a state of feverish excitement but ready to move to better hearing. Four years ago, when I was writing a book on hearing loss, NHS officials told me that digital hearing aids would be available "to all who need them" by 2005.
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Still waiting to hear - The Guardian 17th January 2007
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Housing that will make you feel good - The Guardian 17th January 2007
The psycho-geography of housing is hardwired into us at an early age. As a paperboy, I delivered my bundles of Mirrors and Suns to an area of town characterised in the main by two types of residence: solid, handsome, stone-built Victorian millworkers' terrace cottages; and, further up the hill, plain rows of modern, brick, low-rise corporation flats and maisonettes. It was impossible to say why, but in the early morning gloom I always felt comfortable around the terraced streets, whereas I would approach the council blocks with curious trepidation. Same people, same choice of newspaper: but somehow you felt you were crossing an invisible borderline to a different, unsettling place.
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Can anything stop the superbug? - The Guardian 17th January 2007
MRSA is already notorious for killing the elderly and frail. But now a new form of the 'hospital superbug' is spreading through our parks and playgrounds. You can catch it with a single scratch, and the drugs that used to hold out some hope are rapidly becoming useless.
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Existing drug will cure hospital superbug MRSA, say scientists - The Guardian 17th January 2007
Scientists believe they have found a cure for the MRSA superbug after unearthing an existing drug on a computer database. The discovery means patients could be routinely treated within two or three years, since the drug is known to be safe and is already used on the NHS in the treatment of acute illness.
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British scientists find 'superbug cure' - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
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MRSA: the right approach? - The Times 17th January 2007
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More than half of the world's people will soon live in cities - The Guardian 17th January 2007
More than half of the world's people will soon live in cities. David Satterthwaite asks whether aid agencies and governments are ready for the social and environmental implications of the urban phenomenon
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Historic changes - The Guardian 17th January 2007
Charting the past life of care home residents with Alzheimer's can transform occupational therapy
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Mediocre no more - The Guardian 17th January 2007
A choice-led NHS has the capability to create patient entrepreneurs who, instead of being passive receivers of care, can shape health services around their needs
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Interview: New Philanthropy Capital's head of research, Martin Brookes - The Guardian 17th January 2007
Why should we donate to charities that can't prove they are any good? New Philanthropy Capital's head of research tells Patrick Butler that he has no qualms about taking on some of the biggest names in the sector
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How the Westers won - The Guardian 17th January 2007
Fed up with the media's view of their community as a hub for drug use, crime and antisocial behaviour, the residents of one of Britain's most notorious housing estates decided to fight back.
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Mental health services fail our young people, says Barbara Herts - The Guardian 17th January 2007
Despite huge investment in child and youth mental health services over the past five years - with some £67m in the last financial year alone - many young people in mental distress continue to be admitted to adult psychiatric wards for treatment.
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Children 'abused' on adult psychiatric wards - The Telegraph 17th January 2007
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Bill of no rights for young offenders - The Guardian 17th January 2007
They are the group most likely to reoffend, suffer mental health problems, or commit suicide, yet according to campaign groups, the lot of young adults aged 18-21 in the prison system is about to get even worse.
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The test-tube baby lottery: it could be you - The Times 17th January 2007
The charity Infertility Network UK was due to spend yesterday compiling a report for the Department of Health into the inconsistent availability of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment on the NHS. Instead, it spent the day handling a torrent of calls from worried patients who had seen a BBC Panorama programme questioning the propriety of the man said to be the most successful IVF technician in Britain, the private practitioner Mohammed Taranissi.
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Consultant attacks neglect on wards - The Telegraph 17th January 2007
A senior doctor claims that patients are at risk on hospital wards after watching elderly relatives develop "needless" and "distressing" complications. Dr Katherine Teale, a consultant anaesthetist at Hope Hospital, Salford, spoke out after two family members developed bed sores and a third lost six per cent of body weight following prolonged nausea. Her experiences do not relate to the hospital where she works.
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Fertility watchdog accused of 'playing to cameras' - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
The fertility regulator today denied "playing to the cameras" after it announced it had obtained warrants to inspect two clinics just as a television documentary was about to be screened about them.The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) revealed last night that it had obtained a court warrant earlier in the day to inspect the two London clinics run by leading IVF doctor Mohamed Taranissi.
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IVF watchdog 'played to cameras' - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
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Climate change is making hayfever season arrive early - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
Hayfever sufferers could begin feeling symptoms within weeks, experts have warned. They also predicted that climate change could soon mean year-round misery for people who are allergic to pollen.
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Saved by the Dracula drug - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
Over 30,000 in Britain have Barrett's oesophagus, a condition that can be a precursor to stomach cancer. Conventional treatment - to remove the oesophagus and relocate the stomach - carries a high risk of serious complications. But a new form of laser therapy kills the diseased tissue without the need for surgery.
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You are what you buy! - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
All your best intentions of switching to a healthier diet will be wasted if you don't know how to shop for one - and it's not as simple as it might seem. Changing your diet for the better - cutting out junk food, processed meals and sweet, fatty snacks and introducing a wide variety of new foods - means changing habits of a life-time.
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Could explosives be the cure for poor circulation? - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
Painful, swollen fingers and toes may be a thing of the past for the millions of sufferers of Raynaud's disease, thanks to a new treatment which uses a form of explosive.
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Doctors knew I had MS for 11 years before they told me - Daily Mail 16th January 2007
A father's 11-year nightmare struggle to be diagnosed with MS has exposed the scandal of how consultants withhold bad news
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Call for painkiller ban 'rethink' - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
Two Labour MPs are calling for the Department of Health to reconsider the ban on the painkiller co-proxamol. Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South, and former GP Dr Howard Stoate, the MP for Dartford, will raise the issue at a House of Commons debate.
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Gullet cancer 'might be blocked' - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
Scientists believe blocking the action of vitamin A may help prevent a type of cancer of the gullet. There has been an eight-fold rise in cases of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in the UK in the last 30 years.
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Campaign to prevent Ashley case - BBC Health News 17th January 2007
A British disability charity is trying to ensure that an "Ashley X case" could not happen to a child in the UK. Ashley is the American child who has been medically "frozen in time" to stop her body developing to adult size.
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Weaknesses in razor killer's care - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
Weaknesses existed in the treatment of a schizophrenic who killed two friends, an independent inquiry has found. Sean Crone, 26, of Sunderland, stabbed 25-year-old Ian Lawson 24 times and slashed the throat of Simon Richardson, 27, in October 2003.
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Tories make £500m malaria pledge - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
The Conservatives have pledged to spend £500m a year of the UK's foreign aid on tackling malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the funding would continue until a UN target of reducing the incidence of the killer disease was met.
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Transplant brother is to be donor - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
The last of four siblings who all have a rare genetic disorder is to have a lifesaving bone marrow transplant - thanks to his brother. The Hartleys from Romsey have X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (XLP), with sufferers not expected to live into their teens without a transplant.
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'Pay for surgery' option dropped - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
Plans to offer NHS patients the option of paying for their surgery to avoid waiting lists have been abandoned. Chief executive of Northampton General Hospital, Andrew Riley, has withdrawn a letter sent on 8 January which outlined new plans for minor surgery.
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Health chiefs block asthma drug - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
Asthma campaigners have condemned a decision not to approve a new drug for use by the NHS in Scotland as "unjust and inhumane". The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) said the economic case for prescribing Xolair had not been made.
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Is tomato and broccoli a good combination? - The Guardian 17th January 2007
If you want to avoid cancer, it might be. Tales of the miraculous cancer-busting properties of lycopene, the red pigment found in tomatoes and peppers, have been around for years. Recent research from the University of Illinois, however, has found that pairing it with the glucosinolates in broccoli makes it even more effective in controlling tumour growth in lab rats. While this is good news for rodents, isn't the pairing of sweet, acid tomatoes with shy, delicate broccoli a difficult trick to pull off? Texturally, the combination of slimy, pulpy tomato and fibrous, woody broccoli sounds like a match made in hell. Or is it?
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A dubious distinction - The Guardian 17th January 2007
People are allowed to refuse medical treatment, yet doctors still cannot assist a patient's death
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Algae gel to combat HIV infection - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
A type of algae found on the Brazilian coast could hold the key to a powerful new protection for women against HIV. Brazilian researchers have developed a microbe-killing gel from the algae which they hope will be used to block HIV infection.
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Rescued Katrina embryo baby born - BBC Health News 16th January 2007
A US woman whose frozen embryos were rescued from a flooded fertility clinic weeks after Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans has given birth to a boy. Noah Markham was born 0723 local time (1323 GMT). His mother Rebekah, 32, said she chose the name "because God put it on his heart to build an ark".
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
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Care nurse in misconduct inquiry over bath incident - Warrington Guardian 16th January 2007
A NURSE dumped a frail, elderly woman in a bath when she could see the patient was in agony from a suspected fracture, a disciplinary hearing was told last week. Valerie Humphreys, aged 58, from Warrington, told two care assistants you might as well give her a bath now you're here' before putting her in the tub herself.
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Hospital duo prepare for trip of a lifetime - Wirral Globe 16th January 2007
TWO staff from Arrowe Park Hospital's Ophthalmology Department are shoring up their sea legs for an unforgettable jungle experience. Optometrist Jasleen Jolly and her colleague Joan Hughes, a senior specialist nurse, are travelling to Peru in April to provide much-needed healthcare to people in the country's remote Amazon villages.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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Plans for Private Clinics Debated - Carlisle News & Star 16th January 2007
PLANS to set up contro versial private clinics to perform NHS work in Workington and Carlisle have today gone out to public consultation. The so-called CATS cen tres – Clinical Assessment, Treat and Support – will carry out routine diagnosis and treatment on behalf of the NHS.
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Private firms to help NHS - Lancashire Telegraph 16th January 2007
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Have your say on medical centres - Chorley Citizen 16th January 2007
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Charity status bid by carers support group - Carlisle News & Star 16th January 2007
A PENRITH man who runs a support group for carers across Britain is trying to attain charitable status for his organisation. Clive Arnold, 48, set up UK Carers in mid-2005 and has so far received almost a million hits on the group’s website.
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Local Labour MPs join NHS cuts campaigns - Carlisle News & Star 16th January 2007
LABOUR MPs in Cumbria have been joining senior colleagues to campaign against NHS cuts and closures in their own constituencies. Nationally it has emerged that at least 13 members of Tony Blair’s senior government have joined protests in their local areas.
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Bosses are urged to protect staff health - Carlisle News & Star 16th January 2007
CUMBRIAN bosses are being encouraged to introduce new strategies to protect the health of their workforce. The regional campaign follows news that there are 400,000 people in the north west alone claiming incapacity benefit, while 5.2 million working days were lost last year due to sickness.
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Hospital TV solution near - Lancashire Telegraph 16th January 2007
A GOVERNMENT investigation blamed for delays in installing bedside televisions and phones at Blackburn's new super hospital is nearing completion, the Department of Health has said. As revealed in yesterday's Lancashire Telegraph the £113m Royal Blackburn Hospital still does not have the systems six months after opening.
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Doctor's sexual assault trial opens - Lancashire Telegraph 16th January 2007
A DOCTOR today went on trial accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in her hospital bed. Dr Naveen Shivan, of the ENT unit at the former Blackburn Royal Infimary, is accused of sexually assaulting the girl in August 2005.
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Greater Manchester News
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Hospital to cut 95 more jobs - The Bolton News 16th January 2007
MORE jobs are to be axed at The Royal Bolton Hospital. Just days after it was announced up to 130 posts could be made redundant as a result of privatisation of some outpatient tests, bosses at the cash-strapped hospital have confirmed a further 95 jobs could go.
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Bolton must brush up on oral hygiene - The Bolton News 16th January 2007
YOUNGSTERS in Bolton's poorest areas have at least four teeth which are missing or rotting. That is the finding of a study carried out in 98 primary schools from January to July, 2006.
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Artist’s book to help new mums - The Bolton News 16th January 2007
HELP is at hand for breastfeeding mums in Bury. Cash from the National Lottery will see £5,575 invested in an art group for mothers who are breastfeeding their babies.
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Man's hospital death linked to drugs probe - Leigh Journal 16th January 2007
Detectives in Wigan are investigating the death of a man from Scholes after being alerted by hospital staff. Police were called to Wigan Royal Infirmary at 8pm last night following reports of the suspicious death of a 47-year-old man.
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