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A group of senior doctors and scientists has stepped up its campaign to stop homeopathic treatment being funded on the NHS. In a letter to primary health care trusts, the seven argue that the evidence for a benefit from the complementary therapy "is equivocal at best, despite many years of research and hundreds of studies".
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Hard-up NHS trusts cut back on unproven homoeopathy treatment - The Times 23rd May 2007
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Five organisations representing 85% of NHS mental health staff have withdrawn from the united front campaigning against the government's mental health bill. The split came last week after a disagreement between service providers and charities over whether doctors should retain the exclusive right to put people under compulsory treatment.
A photography exhibition featuring self-portraits of inner-city teenagers aims to shatter the stereotype of hoodie-wearing yobs who treat antisocial behaviour orders as badges of honour. Young Londoners from Hackney and Islington spent four months working with a professional photographer through the children's charity Headliners, formerly Children's Express, a personal development and youth media organisation that targets young people at risk of exclusion or isolation.
Before taking up his post as director of Nimhe (the National Institute for Mental Health in England) West Midlands, Ian had held board level appointments for nine years as director of mental health in two West Midlands trusts. By professional background a clinical psychologist, Ian has significant clinical and managerial experience of service development and organisational change in mental health services, including integrating health and social care services. He has also a longstanding clinical and research interest in dealing with mental health problems in primary care.
I read with concern Margaret Hodge's comments on social housing ('Britons first' homes plan angers MPs, May 21). I am a Labour member working as a caseworker for a London MP and come into daily contact with people of all races who are forced to scrap for the remaining available housing stock. I know very well that it is tearing apart the fabric of working-class communities.
Labour risks squandering its reputation for upholding good public services as voters become increasingly alienated by the government's public sector reform programme, a group of broadly Blairite ministers and thinkers admit in a new book. They complain that Labour has shown a simplistic faith in choice, denigrated public sector values and sometimes let the rhetoric of reform run ahead of the reality on the ground. Contributors to the book, Public Matters, include the Home Office minister, Liam Byrne, the former home secretary, Charles Clarke and the work and pensions secretary, John Hutton.
The British Fashion Council has set up a "model health inquiry", peopled by a collection of designers, models and managers. It has been asked to tackle a number of issues including: hours worked by models; diet and eating habits; drug and alcohol habits; age of models working; the preference for slim models.
There are as many French people living in London, they say, as make up the population of Perpignan or Rouen. You could probably get a mid-sized American city - a Richmond, Virginia - from the Americans living in the capital. This is a predominantly private sector population: the public sector tends to employ British nationals, though it has few hard and fast rules about nationality, except for jobs with a security dimension.
After a decade of investment, Britain's public services are stronger than ever. We are within sight of ending waiting for NHS care. Our school results are at an all-time high. Crime is at a record low. But parts of the electorate are losing confidence in some of our changes, and the willingness of some public service staff to drive through the changes we propose is fracturing fast.
On Monday, psychiatrist Russell Reid was censured for improperly authorising five sex changes. Claudia, whom Reid approved for gender reassignment 20 years ago, tells Julie Bindel how she was rushed into the operation - and quickly came to regret it
Police are investigating the hospital death of a great-grandmother after, her family say, she was given the wrong blood type during a transfusion. Margaret Davies, 67, was fighting cancer and had been admitted to Whiston Hospital, Merseyside, suffering from a MRSA-type bug and the effects of dehydration. Her husband Malcolm Davies, also 67, claims that his wife was given type A blood accidentally instead of type O after staff allegedly confused her records with another patient. He said that Mrs Davies went into deep shock and suffered organ failure, dying within 24 hours.
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Gran dies after being given wrong blood type - Daily Mail 22nd May 2007
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Probe after cancer woman's death - BBC Health News 22nd May 2007
Thousands of heart-attack victims may be prescribed fish oil supplements under guidelines published by the health watchdog. Doctors are being urged to issue one-a-day pills to patients who have had a heart attack in the previous three months and who are not eating two to four portions of oily fish a week.
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Heart attack victims to be given omega 3 - The Telegraph 23rd May 2007
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Heart attack victims should take fish oil pill daily - Daily Mail 22nd May 2007
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Fish oil urged for heart patients - BBC Health News 22nd May 2007
Smokers in Britain are trying to kick the habit more often than any other Europeans but many blame the pressures of modern life for failing, a survey of 27 countries showed yesterday. Almost half of British smokers tried to give up in the past year – much higher than the EU average – and many sought help from their GP. But while Italians blamed their friends for their failure to quit and Austrians said that they could not cope with nicotine cravings, the British overwhelmingly cited stress as the reason why they lapsed.
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The humble cauliflower has been a staple of British food since Shakespeare's time. It may not have the eye-grabbing colour of a carrot, nor the exoticness of artichoke, but none the less we have loved its down-to-earth appeal. Now it is disappearing from our supermarket shelves at a distressing rate.
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A major breakthrough has been made in the search for a malaria vaccine, researchers claimed yesterday. Scientists at the University of Nottingham said they made "significant" progress in experiments with blood taken from those with a natural immunity.
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A new toothpaste promises to end the agony of sensitive teeth by rebuilding tooth enamel. The 13 million Britons who wince when they eat hot or cold food have long been able to buy products to mask the pain.
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A leading dietician has claimed people do not need to eat five fruit and vegetables a day to be healthy. Catherine Collins, chief dietician at St George's Hospital in Tooting, says people can spread them out across a week instead. The advice flies in the face of the Government's Five A Day campaign which encourages people to eat five pieces of fruit and vegetables every day.
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The battle against wrinkles has become a daily concern for many. Bombarded by pictures of celebrities with "perfect skin", they worry about their own image in a culture that often seems youth-obsessed.
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Doctors have been ordered to follow a "traffic light" system of signs to prevent them missing cases of meningitis and other serious illnesses. The official guidance directs them to trust the instincts of parents who believe their child has a fever.
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A group representing thousands of junior doctors is due to learn if its legal challenge over appointments to training places has succeeded. Remedy UK says the MTAS system has been such a shambles that current training appointments should be made temporary.
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All breast cancer services in Liverpool are to be centralised at the Royal University Hospital. The decision was taken by Liverpool PCT following a consultation to choose whether to base services at the Royal or at the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
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Pupils tested after TB outbreak - BBC Health News 22nd May 2007
Blood tests and x-rays for TB are being given to more than 250 pupils and staff at a school after some children tested positive for the disease. Nurses are testing pupils, staff and anyone who spent more than eight hours in the past six months at Southfield Junior School in Luton, Bedfordshire.
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Blood transfusion death claim - The Times 23rd May 2007
Police are investigating the hospital death of a great-grandmother after, her family say, she was given the wrong blood type during a transfusion. Margaret Davies, 67, was fighting cancer and had been admitted to Whiston Hospital, Merseyside, suffering from a MRSA-type bug and the effects of dehydration. Her husband Malcolm Davies, also 67, claims that his wife was given type A blood accidentally instead of type O after staff allegedly confused her records with another patient. He said that Mrs Davies went into deep shock and suffered organ failure, dying within 24 hours.
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Gran dies after being given wrong blood type - Daily Mail 22nd May 2007
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Probe after cancer woman's death - BBC Health News 22nd May 2007
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All breast cancer services in Liverpool are to be centralised at the Royal University Hospital. The decision was taken by Liverpool PCT following a consultation to choose whether to base services at the Royal or at the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
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