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A fast-track system for urgent suspected cases of breast cancer is being overwhelmed by the worried well, leaving thousands of women with genuine breast cancer anxiously waiting a month or more to see a specialist, a study reveals. An estimated 8,800 women a year who are eventually diagnosed with breast cancer are labelled "routine" cases under the system, waiting for weeks despite increasing numbers of other women being fast-tracked to a consultant, it says.
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Breast cancer victims wait longer for treatment despite new rules - The Independent 13th July 2007
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Breast cancer ‘failings’ - The Times 13th July 2007
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Two-week wait rule for breast cancer 'is failing' - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
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'Fast track' that actually delays the diagnosis of breast cancer - Daily Mail 13th July 2007
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Breast cancer targets 'failing' - BBC Health News 12th July 2007
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NHS blueprint puts patients first - The Guardian 13th July 2007
Ara Darzi's blueprint for the future of London's health services (Report, July 11) offers a necessary corrective to an NHS dominated by an acute sector in which there is a great deal of unnecessary and expensive duplication of services. His vision of a polyclinic in every high street, with GPs, specialists and other health professionals working side by side, offers us an opportunity to finally deliver the kind of accessible, integrated, primary-care-led, prevention-orientated NHS, that successive health secretaries have sought, but struggled to achieve. This is no finance-driven programme of cuts, but an intelligent and thoughtful package of measures that will transform Londoners' healthcare experience.
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Letters to The Daily Telegraph - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
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Letters to The Daily Telegraph - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
It may be difficult to quantify, but surely the economic and social benefits for all those who do not develop cancer or cardiovascular disease in later life because they did eat the free fruit at school, and the related savings for the NHS, need to be recognised (Hey kids! How about some healthy free fruit? No thanks, we'll stick with the crisps, July 12). The article implies that providing free fruit throughout school life would be beneficial if fruit consumption falls when children are no longer eligible for the free fruit.
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Has Jamie's health drive killed off school meals? - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
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Pollution risks to people slip through net in tests on fish - The Guardian 13th July 2007Additional Story
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A new class of organic pollutants in the environment which could pose risks to people's health has been identified by scientists. The chemicals, used in a wide range of pesticides and cosmetics, have been unwittingly ignored by regulators, who have assumed them to be safe.
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Toxic chemical traces have been found in fake Sensodyne toothpaste sold in Britain, the medicines watchdog has warned. The affected batch was sold at markets and car-boot sales but not in shops, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said.
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Toxic chemical found in fake tubes of toothpaste - The Times 13th July 2007
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Poison found in fake tubes of Sensodyne toothpaste - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
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Toxic chemical found in fake tubes of toothpaste - The Times 13th July 2007
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Poison found in fake tubes of Sensodyne toothpaste - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
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Patient safety and cutting-edge medical research will be put at risk by government plans to merge its watchdogs for fertility treatment and human tissue to save money, leading doctors and scientists said yesterday. The proposal to replace the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) with a combined super-regulator has prompted criticism from every significant professional and patient group that is affected.
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Every household in Britain is paying £900 a year to fund overrunning government projects, according to figures from the Taxpayers’ Alliance. It claimed that Labour has squandered £23billion of taxpayers’ money by failing to control the costs of its flagship schemes. Among the projects cited by the alliance are the Eurofighter military aircraft, the 2012 Olympics and a super computer for the NHS.
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Public overspend costs each household £900 - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
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Public overspend costs each household £900 - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
An eight-year-old girl has been taken from her parents and put into care because she is seriously overweight. The girl, who is 5ft (1.52m) tall, is a size 16 - six sizes bigger than the average for her age. She has suffered several health problems associated with her weight. But her parents, from West Cumbria, say that they are devastated, and that her size is due to a medical problem or genetics, not a poor diet.
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Of all the bogeys you might have thought well and truly nailed in the past decade or so, the population control movement seemed most obviously to have a stake through its heart. At a time when we – I mean, anyone over 35 – are all horribly conscious that there won’t be enough taxpayers to support us in gin and cigarettes in our old age, the very last thing we need to worry about is excess population growth. On the contrary: as seen from the dinner party circuit, the real crisis is the difficulty for female graduates in getting anyone to breed with. Forty per cent of women graduates don’t have a single baby at the age of 35.
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More than half of qualified physiotherapists cannot find a permanent job in the NHS despite massive waiting lists for treatment, experts said yesterday. Financial cutbacks last year to balance health service books have left hundreds facing the career scrapheap and feeling betrayed.
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'Grim' job prospects for physiotherapists after £30k training - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
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'What will happen to 13,000 jobless doctors?' - The Telegraph 13th July 2007
Medical leaders yesterday demanded to know what will happen to 13,000 junior doctors who will not get a training post this year. Ministers announced yesterday that 85 per cent of posts had been filled with just 2,320 left available for the next round of recruitment.
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"We've put a lot of money in, but that hasn't led to a lot of happy bunnies," Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, recently observed. He added: "If there's a problem with morale, it's our responsibility." So there follows yet another review of the National Health Service to find out why staff morale is so low. There is, of course, more than one reason for it, but if you talk to seasoned professionals, one of them becomes clear to you. NHS staff, whether high-ranking specialists or junior nurses, are conditioned to ungrateful patients. They no longer expect to be thanked for what they do. What they find harder to take is the spread of our "blame culture".
Drug makers have attacked Nice, the body that decides whether the National Health Service will pay for drugs, calling it a back-door way to ration medicines in the UK. Bristol Myers-Squibb was one of 20 large pharmaceutical companies that submitted views on Nice (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) to the House of Commons health select committee yesterday
An NHS manager has been given a redundancy package worth almost £1 million in what was described as "a lottery win rather than a payout". David Johnson, the former head of a regional strategic health authority, was one of about 70 staff who left the organisation when it was abolished as part of a restructuring programme.
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Don't blame Victor Meldrew for being grumpy. He can't help it. People have a harder time understanding jokes as they age because of memory and reasoning problems, according to a new study.
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A woman has been banned from going into the sea around the British coastline after trying to drown herself more than 50 times. Amy Beth Dallamura's suicide attempts over the past five years have cost emergency services up to £1million.
Women in their 60s and 70s should not start taking HRT to stave off heart disease, say scientists. A study suggests that Hormone Replacement Therapy has more risks than benefits for women who are many years past the menopause.
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Terrorists 'may have access to deadly viruses in NHS hospitals' - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
Lax security in Britain's hospitals could give terrorists working in the NHS easy access to deadly viruses and dangerous chemicals, an expert has warned today. The warning comes just days after it emerged that seven of the eight people held over the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow had links to the NHS.
Some people are so desperate to change their appearance that they have glued back their ears, tried to iron the wrinkles off their face and even cut open their stomachs in botched DIY tummy-tucks, according to a top psychologist. Dr David Veale, a psychologist at the celebrity Priory Hospital in London, was speaking to an audience of psychologists at a conference in Bristol organised by the Centre of Appearance Research.
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The NHS is failing people with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychiatrists have said. There are only a few clinics across the UK that treat the condition - also known as ADHD - which affects up to 4% of adults.
Last month, 20-year old David Lomas donated over half of his liver to save the life of his father, Stephen. It was an inspiring sacrifice There aren't enough donors to go around, and 400 people die each year in the UK while on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
The majority of people are more worried about skin cancer than they were a decade ago but still do not protect themselves, a survey has suggested. The Institute of Cancer Research poll of 2,000 people found more than a third do not use sunscreen when sunbathing.
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Amid the morning bustle of Johannesburg Hospital's Aids clinic, Francois Venter darts from room to room, poking his head inside and asking both doctor and patient, "Are you OK?" More and more, they are. The clinic he helps oversee is one of the continent's best at distributing antiretroviral drugs. The waiting room fills each day with more than 100 patients whose full faces contradict the stereotype of hollow-cheeked Africans with Aids.
If you needed any more proof that fruit, veg and oily fish work wonders, here it is. Now there is another good reason to urge your teenagers to eat up their fruit, vegetables and oily fish. Doing so could, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, make them less prone to asthma, coughing, wheezing and generally “underperforming” lungs.
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Breast cancer gene 'does not hamper survival' - Daily Mail 12th July 2007
Women who develop breast cancer because they carry one of three defective genes are as likely to survive in the long term as other breast cancer patients, scientists have found. Women with and without the best-known cancer genes had virtually the same overall survival rate after 10 years, the Canadian and Israeli researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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THE North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has been named the third best in the country for administering life-saving treatment to heart attack patients. Statistics show that the region’s ambulance service is achieving the national targets for England and Wales, and exceeding the national average by 4%.
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Hospital aims to mop up superbug - Liverpool Daily Post 13th July 2007
MICROFIBRE mops have been introduced at Southport and Ormskirk hospitals to help fight hospital superbugs such as MRSA and Clostridium Difficile. Following trials at both hospitals, the microfibre system – which includes mops, wipes and trolleys – has been brought in.
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Alder Hey nurse denies misconduct after lethal blunder - Liverpool Daily Post 12th July 2007
A NURSE who gave a child a lethal injection by mistake has denied misconduct at a professional hearing which will decide if she should be struck off. Rose Aru, 62, from Wavertree, was not at the opening day of her Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing in London, due to illness.
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Toddler death nurse in misconduct hearing - Lancashire Telegraph 12th July 2007
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AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl from west Cumbria became so fat she was taken from her parents and put into care. The girl is 5ft tall and a size 16 – six sizes bigger than the average for her age. She has also suffered several health problems associated with her weight.
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Obese girl taken into care because of her weight - The Times 13th July 2007
THE North West Ambulance Service – now the largest in the UK – is this week celebrating its first anniversary. It was July 2006 when the trusts in Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside merged into one regional body.
THE head of North West ambulance service has called for more cash to help meet new government targets on emergency response times. Currently brigades have an eight minute response time once operators have established a name, location and the extent of the problem.
PROGRESS on a £14 million unit at Calderstones in Whalley was marked with a stone-laying ceremony. The project will see a replacement 36-bed medium secure unit built at Calderstones NHS Trust by early next year.
A Blackpool landlord who has openly flouted the smoking ban is the only pub boss in the town to do so. The only fines handed out to smokers since the introduction of the ban on July 1 have been in the Happy Scots bar on Rigby Road.
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Toddler death nurse in misconduct hearing - Lancashire Telegraph 12th July 2007
A baby boy from Blackburn died after a nurse injected him with the wrong drug at the world famous Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, a hearing was told. Rose Aru, 62, injected 18-month-old Jake McGeough with vecuronium, causing muscular paralysis and prompting his breathing to stop in July 2001.
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Alder Hey nurse denies misconduct after lethal blunder - Liverpool Daily Post 12th July 2007
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'Don't die of ignorance' - Manchester 13th July 2007
ACTOR Max Beesley and his dad are backing an appeal to raise £1m for a prostate cancer charity after the disease struck their family twice. Max's dad Maxton, 62, was given hormone treatment and then three months of radiotherapy after doctors picked up the condition during an annual health check.
MANCHESTER-based law firm Hempsons has advised on a £20 million property deal which will see two new state-of-the-art health centres in Bury. Contracts have been signed on the two health centres which are worth £10 million each which will bring a wide range of health services to the heart of the town.
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Hospital group generosity provides hearing aids - Altrincham Messenger 12th July 2007
THE generosity of Altrincham General Hospital's League of Friends has enabled more people to benefit from the latest digital hearing aids. The Friends have paid for two laptop computers and two hearing aid programming systems, with a combined cost of nearly £3,000.
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