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Ministers should hand control of the NHS in England to an independent board free from political interference, doctors' leaders said yesterday, in a document foreshadowing fundamental changes which Gordon Brown may introduce when he takes over as prime minister.
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Why would anyone choose to give birth without a doctor, midwife or even her partner in attendance? Viv Groskop reports on the growing trend for freebirth
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As Clare Allan suggests (Virginia Tech doesn't justify a flawed mental health bill), there is no evidence base to support David Blunkett's suggestion that the Virginia Tech shootings provide an argument for introducing community treatment orders via the mental health bill currently going through parliament. Homicides by people with a mental illness are unusual and relatively few in number. Many are committed by people who have not previously been in contact with services or have been assessed as at low risk. It should not therefore be expected that community treatment orders will significantly impact on the total number of these incidents.
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Thousands of NHS patients still facing ordeal of mixed-sex wards - The Independent 9th May 2007
Hospital patients are suffering the indignity and embarrassment of being cared for on mixed-sex wards - a decade after the Government pledged to abolish the practice. Almost one in five NHS trusts is continuing to treat patients admitted for routine treatment alongside members of the opposite sex in breach of government rules.
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Soft, the troubled NHS software company, is in talks with IBA Health, an Australian software firm, over a potential £132.3 million bid. IBA has suspended its shares on the Australian stock exchange while discussions with institutional investors over financing the possible iSoft deal continue.
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I will never forget the tears of disappointment dripping from their hoodies: a crowd of youths whom I saw in a travel agents’ last week were inconsolable after being told that they were not allowed, after all, to book for the Saga cruise to Alexandria on which they had set their hearts.
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Gordon Brown is expected to call a halt to the rapid expansion of the private sector's role in the National Health Service in a significant departure from the health reforms of Tony Blair. Cabinet allies say Mr Brown is deeply concerned by the way Labour has lost its reputation as the NHS's champion and now stands accused by many of its own supporters of masterminding the creeping "privatisation" of the service.
Parents were told yesterday to avoid artificial colours commonly found in sweets and soft drinks amid growing fears over their effect on children's behaviour. New research backed by the Government is believed to have established a fresh link between the additives and hyperactivity, restlessness and tantrums.
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The proof food additives ARE as bad as we feared - Daily Mail 8th May 2007
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Artificial food colouring warning - BBC Health News 8th May 2007
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A woman who gave her eggs to help two childless friends fears she has been left infertile by her act of kindness. Donna Stickels, 26, revealed her personal ordeal to warn other women about the potential dangers of egg donation.
Thanks to Jamie Oliver, many pupils are now tucking into healthier school lunches. Strict Government rules, which came into effect last September, stipulate that children should have more fruit and veg, and fewer biscuits, meat products and deep-fried foods.
Sue Burke was making a cake for her eldest daughter's fifth birthday when suddenly her one-year-old twins, who had been playing noisily in the living room, went quiet.
Breast cancer surgery usually involves removing the lump and up to 30 of the lymph nodes under the arm — often causing painful chronic swelling. With a new technique, only one or two lymph nodes have to be removed — an operation which is set to become more widely available now that 80 per cent of the UK's breast surgeons have signed up for training.
Chinese medicine clinics are popping up on every High Street. Many are reputable - but others are totally unlicensed, give bizarre diagnoses for potentially serious illnesses and charge a fortune for dubious cocktails of herbs.
Former and footballer Geoff Thomas had barely had a day's illness in his life when he was diagnosed with leukaemia in July 2003 and given fewer than three years to live.
Millions of harmful bacteria — that can multiply FIVE times in one week. How fortnightly rubbish collections raise the risk of disease
Boosting levels of a protein in the brain could be a way of treating diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, scientists suggest. Researchers at the University of Bristol say the SUMO protein acts to damp down the amount of information transmitted to cells.
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Local councils will be duty-bound to enforce the new anti-smoking law which comes into effect in England on 1 July. But how are authorities in Scotland ensuring their own ban, passed a year earlier, is obeyed?
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Hundreds of inaccurate patient records have been created every day because of a fault on the new NHS computer system. The problem - affecting patients in Greater Manchester with appointments booked via the online system - arose after a software upgrade.
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Big screen films in which actors smoke are a dangerous influence on teenagers all over the world, a UK health campaigning group warns. Studies of US, German and Mexican children show the impact the images can have, claims ASH.
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In pictures: Penicillin: The first 'wonder drug' - BBC Health News 8th May 2007
When penicillin was invented it was hailed as a "wonder drug".
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Parents to get kits to drug-test their children - The Guardian 9th May 2007
Parents in the Italian city of Milan are being offered do-it-yourself narcotics testing kits to check their children for drug use. Over the next few days, the city's council will send letters to almost 4,000 homes with children between the ages of 13 and 16. Inside will be a voucher that can be exchanged at chemists for one of the kits.
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THE first workers will today walk into a new £17m safe haven for abused children after a 2½-year fundraising campaign backed by the Daily Post. Staff will begin their first day’s work at the Hargreaves Centre, named after the NSPCC Safe Place Appeal’s biggest benefactor, Matalan magnate John Hargreaves.
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Hospital trust manager backs road campaign - Liverpool Daily Post 9th May 2007
A HOSPITAL boss has joined the campaign for the Ormskirk bypass, warning that patients cannot reach his wards because of traffic-choked roads. Sir Ron Watson, chairman of Southport and Ormskirk NHS trust, has written to MPs and councillors urging them to step up pressure for the new road.
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ELDERLY and disabled residents of a sheltered housing complex have launched a fight to keep their home helps. Dolan Court in Jackson's Pond Drive, Childwall, is run by Anchor Trust but its 11 carers are provided by the city council.
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A CORONER has slammed a `slipshod and haphazard' regime at a hospital after two nurses admitted lying on the medical record of a patient who died of a heroin overdose. Fraser Lambert, 38, once a promising young footballer, was a patient on Willow Ward, a secure mental health unit at Cheadle Royal, Stockport, when he died in September last year days after being admitted.
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HUNDREDS of inaccurate patient records have been created every day due to a fault on a controversial new NHS computer system in Greater Manchester. The problem affects patients who have hospital appointments booked via the online system.
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NHS computer hit by fresh glitch - BBC Health News 8th May 2007
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A CANCER sufferer who is fighting for a life-prolonging "wonder drug" is today presenting a petition to health bosses. Terence Booth has terminal bowel cancer and his latest course of chemotherapy has been unsuccessful.
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VISITORS to farms in Bolton are being warned to wash their hands in a bid to avoid serious infection. Several cases of cryptosporidium, which causes severe diarrhoea, have been diagnosed across Greater Manchester in the last few weeks after people visited local farms on educational trips.
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A BABY day is being held at Fairfield Hospital in Bury. The National Childbirth Trust is holding the open day to help parents make informed choices about pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
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LAUGHING gas is being used by clubbers in Manchester to get "high". Licensees were today being warned that they could face prosecution if they allow the nitrous oxide to be sold in their premises.
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