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Gordon Brown yesterday risked a political backlash from Britain's nurses ahead of a possible Labour leadership battle later this year when he pegged pay increases for more than one million public sector workers to below 2% this year. Prompting threats of industrial action from health sector unions, the chancellor insisted that the state of the public finances and the need to keep inflation under control meant the government pay bill could increase by only 1.9% - well below any of the official measures used to calculate the cost of living.
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Brown squeezes public sector pay to prepare for Tory battle - The Independent 2nd February 2007
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Health workers are the biggest losers as Chancellor takes iron grip on pay awards - The Times 2nd February 2007
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Below-inflation pay rise for public sector - The Telegraph 2nd February 2007
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Brown squeezes public sector pay to prepare for Tory battle - The Independent 2nd February 2007
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Health workers are the biggest losers as Chancellor takes iron grip on pay awards - The Times 2nd February 2007
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Below-inflation pay rise for public sector - The Telegraph 2nd February 2007
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Some of the UK's best qualified and most promising young doctors are among thousands thinking of leaving the country after failing to be shortlisted this week for a job in an NHS hospital. About 30,000 junior doctors have applied through a new online system for a post that will allow them to train to become a specialist - but only 22,000 jobs are available. As the invitations to interviews dropped through letter boxes in the last couple of days it became clear some of the best-qualified applicants had been rejected. Many are talking of emigrating, while questions are being asked about the fairness of the application process.
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In the perpetual struggle between thinness and fatness that obsesses the media, this has if anything been the fatties' week. Despite the press's cruel mockery of juvenile obesity, decried yesterday by my fellow G2 columnist Catherine Bennett, the balance of scare stories seemed to me to go more against "size zero" skinniness than the "obesity epidemic", and fat people were on the whole quite favourably portrayed.
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More than 3,000 child asylum seekers who arrive alone in Britain each year will be treated as adults if they refuse "potentially harmful" dental x-ray checks to determine their age, under Home Office proposals published yesterday. They will also face being sent to 50 to 60 towns and cities outside London and the south-east as well as the threat of forcible deportation for the first time if their refugee claims are rejected.
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The assertion by Liz Davies (Response, February 28) that ContactPoint "is in effect a population surveillance tool" is a gross distortion of what is an intelligent application of technology aimed at ensuring every child benefits from the universal services, notably health and education, irrespective of their needs, race, or background. Evidence to the Victoria Climbié inquiry graphically illustrated that because of population mobility the continuing needs of a child can easily be neglected. Communication both within and between the key agencies is too often ineffective. Because of that, I recommended the government should explore the possibility of developing indicators without in any way transgressing the accepted standards of confidentiality.
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Women who are desperate to conceive are undergoing expensive and risky IVF treatment when a safer version which uses fewer drugs and implants a single embryo is just as effective, a scientific study says today. Couples spend thousands of pounds on unnecessary IVF drugs with harmful side-effects and do not improve their chances of having a baby compared with couples who use less invasive techniques, according to research in the Lancet.
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Treatments for IVF are needlessly aggressive and risky, says report - The Independent 2nd February 2007
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Treatments for IVF are needlessly aggressive and risky, says report - The Independent 2nd February 2007
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he Chancellor Gordon Brown is facing the threat of industrial action by health service staff after he imposed a pay squeeze on all public sector workers, apart from the armed services. Mr Brown signalled his determination to keep the economy on track by imposing a pay squeeze on thousands of public sector workers to curb public spending increases and keep within inflation targets.
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Childless couples are being denied the chance of starting a family because hospitals in many areas are cancelling fertility treatment as a result of financial problems besetting the NHS. Access to IVF has become a postcode lottery as trusts refuse to offer treatment in clear defiance of government promises and guidelines. An extensive survey of access to fertility treatment across Britain has shown that in some parts of the country NHS trusts have completely stopped offering IVF, while in others trusts are restricting access by age.
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Case study: It has taken over our lives - The Telegraph 2nd February 2007
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Couples denied the chance of a baby in IVF postcode lottery - Daily Mail 1st March 2007
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NHS fertility care is 'a lottery' - BBC Health News 2nd March 2007
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Couples denied the chance of a baby in IVF postcode lottery - Daily Mail 1st March 2007
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NHS fertility care is 'a lottery' - BBC Health News 2nd March 2007
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Milk is a highly complex liquid, with bacteria that influence its composition. Many cheesemakers have very good reasons to treat the milk they use — if you buy a lot and you don't have direct contact with the supplier then it can become necessary.
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The burden of diabetes is growing much faster than health planners anticipated because of the epidemic in obesity in Western countries, scientists say today. In one country the increase in Type 2 diabetes in a decade has already overtaken an international prediction for 2030.
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A district nurse who occasionally attends to my needs brought sad tidings. Six nurses she had trained to carry out her invaluable duties were leaving the nursing service: there is not enough money to pay them. At my time of life, you get a view of what is going wrong with the National Health Service, and why we shall not be able to continue on the present lines for much longer.
Their views on food and body image could not be more different: Susannah Jowitt is the author of Fat, So?, which celebrates larger women. Candida Crewe wrote Eating Myself about her battle with anorexia and bulimia. So what happened when they met?
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The Church of England yesterday warned that the spread of hard-core sex and violence in films is "fatally eroding" standards of behaviour. It questioned the increasingly liberal decisions by film censors and accused them of allowing wider and younger audiences to see pornography and violence.
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More than £500,000 of Health Service money could be spent defending the decision to deny drugs to thousands of Alzheimer's sufferers - enough to fund treatment for all those who need it. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which has ruled that dementia drugs costing £2.50 a day are too expensive, has admitted a legal challenge could cost it more than £100,000.
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From wearing pegs on their noses to having tennis balls taped to the back of their pyjamas, snorers have tried a host of solutions to end their partner's nocturnal misery. But Paul Cattell has come up with a cure which sounds much more sensible.
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Taxpayers may have to pay Bernard Matthews as much as £670,000 in compensation for turkeys culled after bird flu was discovered at one of his company's factory farms.
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Children at risk of sex offending need more help in a bid to reverse the rising number of sex crimes committed by youngsters, experts say. The number of children given police warnings or court orders for sex offences rose by a fifth since 2003.
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Physical differences in the brain may increase the chances of a person choosing to take drugs, say Cambridge University scientists. A study of rats showed variations in brain structure pre-dated their first exposure to narcotics, and made them more likely to opt for cocaine.
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Premiership footballers are being urged to donate a day's pay for nurses. A number of top-flight footballers have already signed up to the Mayday for Nurses campaign, which is being run by one of the organisers of Live 8.
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The salt intake in some bread is so high it is killing 7,000 people a year, campaigners say. Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) said more than a third of the 138 wrapped loaves it checked had salt content above the recommended levels.
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Baby beats 100 to 1 survival odds - BBC Health News 1st March 2007
A baby who was given a 1% chance of survival when she was born four months prematurely has been taken home. Millie McDonagh weighed just 20 ounces (567g) and measured 11in (28cm) from head to toe when she was born in Manchester after a 22-week pregnancy.
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Prostitutes working in licensed brothels are as satisfied with their lot as professional women, Australian researchers have announced. But women who sell themselves on the street, or at home, are much less happy and at far greater risk of rape and assault. The study, by the Queensland University of Technology, suggested that the world's oldest profession was by no means solely the domain of women from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Even in a country renowned for its exquisite food and adhesion to regular meal times, there has been no escape from "le snacking" and the rise of obesity. The French are now consuming so much fat, salt and sugar that all advertisements for products considered unhealthy will, from today, be accompanied by health warnings.
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Women are putting their lives at risk by buying slimming drugs online, experts have warned. Some appetite suppressants, which may be addictive, can have potentially fatal side-effects unless patients are under medical supervision, a report by the UN's International Narcotics Control Board says.
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Internet slimming pills warning - BBC Health News 1st March 2007
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STAFF and unions have reacted furiously to news that a 24-bed elderly care ward is to be axed. Workers warned that the move would lead to bed blocking and a return to patients waiting on trolleys.
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A SMOKE-free youth group from Liverpool has taken part in an international demonstration in New York. Nine members of D-MYST (Direct Movement by the Youth SmokeFree Team) travelled to America to join forces with their counterpart group, Reality Check, as part of their campaign to get smoking out of the media.
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THE number of teenage pregnancies in Cheshire has fallen by more than 8% over the past nine years. According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, the number of pregnancies recorded in girls under 18 in 2005 stood at 445 - the highest of any local authority area in the North West.
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Birkenhead MP Frank Field joined the British Lung Foundation and other campaigners at the House of Commons on Tuesday to welcome a new Department of Health initiative aimed at improving services for people with the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. The new initiative comes a year after the launch of the British Lung Foundation's Mesothelioma Charter, which calls for mesothelioma to be made a national priority by the Cancer Tsar. Mr Field signed an Early Day Motion at the event welcoming the Department of Health's Mesothelioma Framework and calling for increased awareness of the disease.New Story
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NORTH Cumbria’s hospitals could get their own police presence following attacks on staff. The Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven could both have officers working on site, health chiefs confirmed yesterday.
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FORMER health chiefs have said that staff who removed a plaque bearing the name of an outspoken ex-chairman should be "thoroughly ashamed of themselves." Three members of a board which used to run local services have written to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust bosses to express their "dismay" at the move.
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A HEALTH boss has defended the use of controversial "mortgage" schemes to build hospitals, such as those in Blackburn and Burnley. Mike Fararr, chief executive of NHS North West, said the Private Finance Initiative was vital to get new buildings in place.
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A&E closure rumour quashed - Lancashire Telegraph 1st March 2007New Story
ACCIDENT and emergency at Burnley General Hospital is not closing, despite rumours it will shut in September, health bosses have said. But they said plans to send 13 per cent of patients, the most serious cases, to Blackburn will not be changed.
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THE trust which runs Fairfield Hospital and North Manchester General has been told to improve some of its children's services by an independent government watchdog. The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which also runs Rochdale Infirmary and Royal Oldham hospitals, has been rated fair' by the Healthcare Commission with a number of areas requiring improvement.
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Baby beats 100 to 1 survival odds - BBC Health News 1st March 2007
A baby who was given a 1% chance of survival when she was born four months prematurely has been taken home. Millie McDonagh weighed just 20 ounces (567g) and measured 11in (28cm) from head to toe when she was born in Manchester after a 22-week pregnancy.
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