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The government's scheme to expand NHS dentistry led to fewer patients being treated by fewer dentists in the first year of operation, official figures revealed yesterday. Ministers had expected local NHS commissioners to buy extra capacity to make it easier for people to register for regular dental treatment. Dentists were put on a new contract that was supposed to let them escape the "drill and fill" treadmill and provide time for preventive work.
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NHS dentists treat 47,000 fewer patients - The Telegraph 8th August 2007
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A million more patients have lost their NHS dentist - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
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Hospitals to cut platefuls of waste - The Guardian 8th August 2007
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NHS dentists treat 47,000 fewer patients - The Telegraph 8th August 2007
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A million more patients have lost their NHS dentist - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
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Charities call for baby milk ads ban as Jordan feature 'breaks rules' - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
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Dentistry access 'not improving' - BBC Health News 7th July 2007
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Dentistry access 'not improving' - BBC Health News 7th July 2007
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Hospitals to cut platefuls of waste - The Guardian 8th August 2007
It is something of a worry to learn that every NHS hospital will be receiving "nutrient and food-based guidance" this year. But it seems it is needed: 13m hospital meals went uneaten last year, 2.3m more than in 2005. And that is despite a £40m campaign launched six years ago to improve hospital food.
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Your article on the escalating mental health problems among frontline veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars raises serious questions about how we repay the people who risk their lives for us (Iraq veterans suffer stress and alcoholism, August 3).
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Some of society's most vulnerable people are at risk of being left without legal representation as reforms force law centres to take on the least complicated cases
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Apparently a glass of white wine a day is practically a guarantee that you'll never suffer from dementia, or at least the odds shrink significantly. It was in the papers recently, so it must be true. Admittedly, that was just before we were told drinking gives you bowel cancer.
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"Personalisation" is a buzz word of government social care policy, and the commissioning models that give service users greater control over the services they get and who delivers them are central to this aspiration. Person-centred planning, for example, has proved successful for some people with intellectual disabilities. Individual budgets are more ambitious, with the care services minister, Ivan Lewis, heralding them as the future of social care, although it is still too early to know from the 13 pilots across England what they might achieve in terms of choice, outcomes or cost-effectiveness.
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Rich, married and well-educated women tend to have more sons while those who are unhealthy and poorer tend to have more daughters, according to a study. Researchers studied 50 million people and found that mothers in 'good condition’ - those who were married, better educated and younger - bore more sons than mothers in 'poor condition’.
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Allan Mallinson may well be right about morale and nurturing of the infantry (Comment, August 7), but he is wrong about the need for military hospitals. In today's professional medicine, a dedicated military hospital would never be able to satisfy the professional competence, currency and training requirements of its medical staff, nor be able to provide the range and depth of specialist skills and facilities necessary to meet the needs of its patients.
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The largest provider of bedside phones on Health Service wards has scrapped a sharp increase in call charges after complaints from patients. But there will be no reduction in the exorbitant charge of 49p a minute for friends and relatives to call patients - higher than the price of a call to Australia.
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A GP misled a court by claiming vaccines including MMR jab were too dangerous to be given to children, the General Medical Council heard yesterday. Dr Jayne Donegan, a GP in Herne Hill, south London, "convinced herself" of the dangers of vaccines to such an extent that she was prepared to give false evidence, it was alleged.
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A drug which could cut diabetics' chances of having heart attacks and strokes is being tested by scientists. The breakthrough follows a study which found diabetics suffer from a lack of vitamin B1, which is important in keeping the body's circulatory system healthy.
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NICE was 'biased' over heart treatment say doctors - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
The watchdog behind the move to ban a life-saving treatment for heart patients was last night accused of being the equivalent of a "nobbled jury". A senior MP and doctors attacked the "bias" behind a decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to stop using drugcoated stents. Last year, 40,000 patients had stents inserted to prevent arteries narrowing.
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"It's not me, it's my hormones" is not just a lame excuse - millions of apparently healthy Britons suffer from hormonal disorders that wreak havoc with their health. "We are seeing more people diagnosed with hormonal complaints than ever before," says John Monson, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Endocrinology St Bart's Hospital, London, and consultant physician at The London Clinic.
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An eye surgeon has avoided being struck off the register after leaving children's author Jan Fearnley with blurred vision from Lasik laser work to correct her shortsightedness. Each year more than 100,560 laser eye treatments are carried out in Britain, mostly Lasik. Complications are said to occur in three to six per cent of patients. So would you take the risk? Here university student Sam Ross reveals his recent experience
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As a goalie, I've spent most of my life having my head kicked in and throwing myself on the ground. Now I am paying the price. I remember one day the Arsenal manager asked me if I knew how many times I'd hit the ground that day. I didn't. He said it had been at least 200. As a result of my job, I've suffered countless playing injuries - including a broken arm, wrist, ribs, fingers on both hands, a chipped shoulder, numerous cuts and concussions - and my joints have worn out. Both my hips have packed in and I'll soon need a new left knee.
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As a travel writer and broadcaster, going to malarial countries is part of my business. Over the years, I've been to many - Uganda's rainforests, the islands around Zanzibar, India and South Africa are just a few.
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Over 200 heart surgeons have made their survival rates public, more than twice as many as when the publication scheme launched last year.
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Doctors are turning to graphic artists to help patients better understand their illness and course of treatment. The artists turn medical images from 3D anatomical scans into less formidable forms, suitable for patients.
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Just two years after marrying wife Florence, Keith Henderson found himself unable to have sex. He could not keep an erection and was too embarrassed to seek help.
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It might not trip off the tongue like some holiday slogans. But more tourists than ever are being tempted by holidays offering sun, sightseeing and surgery. It's called healthcare tourism - going abroad for private treatment.
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Pencil removed from German's head - BBC Health News 6th July 2007
A woman in Germany who has spent 55 years with part of a pencil inside her head has finally had it removed. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil when she was four. It punctured her cheek and part of it went into her brain, above the right eye.
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Italian man returns from woodland exile after HIV 'mistake' - The Guardian 8th August 2007
Alberto Zabbialini dropped into an internet cafe on Sunday and did what millions do at their computers every day, idly keying his name into a search engine. But the 28-year-old mechanic had more reason than most to be curious after he had fled his home three months earlier in a suicidal mood to carve out a hermit's life on berries and river water in the Ligurian woods, driven by the belief he had contracted HIV.
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Brains being our centres of personality, vision, hearing, motor control, consciousness and, in short, everything that makes us functioning and human, there is a reason why they are encased in very hard bone. And why it is reasonable to assume that breaching that bone is catastrophic.
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With Olympic organisers in Beijing already facing an international storm over China's human rights record, the focus switched yesterday to the city's pollution problems as Australian International Olympic Committee member John Coates said he would tell his country's athletes to arrive only four or five days before they compete.
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More than 15 million people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh are facing a "health crisis" if food and medical aid to south Asia's flood victims is not rapidly stepped up, the United Nations and leading aid agencies said yesterday. Although major rivers in northern India and Bangladesh are now subsiding, vast swathes of the territory remain under water, increasing the risk of diarrhoea and mosquito-borne diseases.
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The contraceptive pill 'can protect you from cancer for 20 years' - Daily Mail 7th July 2007
The contraceptive pill can protect a woman against ovarian cancer for at least 20 years after she stops taking it, scientists have revealed. The largest study of its kind has found that the longer a woman uses the contraceptive, the less likely she is to develop the disease.
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Coffee 'protects female memory' - BBC Health News 7th July 2007
Caffeine may help older women ward off mental decline, research suggests. French researchers compared women aged 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee per day with those who drank one cup or less per day.
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India poses huge health challenge - BBC Health News 6th July 2007
Medical ethicist Daniel Sokol gives a personal account of his first-hand experiences of medicine in India. Walking down a busy road in this small town challenges many of the senses.
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India rejects Novartis challenge - BBC Health News 6th August 2007
An Indian court has thrown out a challenge to the country's patent laws by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis. The firm wanted the law changed after its bid to patent a new version of its anti-cancer drug Glivec was rejected in April this year.
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THE parents of a baby born with a rare brain disease have been given hope that American doctors could prolong his life. Elliott Willis, 16 months, from Kirkby, has Leigh’s disease – an incurable condition that eats away at his muscles – and is not expected to live past his sixth birthday.
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Doctors listen to patients' wishes - Middlewich Guardian 7th July 2007
A DOCTOR'S surgery has been pushed out of plans for Middlewich's £2million medical centre. Acorns Surgery in Wheelock Street is not part of the development because its patients were not prepared to share facilities including a waiting room.
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A DISABLED rights activist claims that facilities in Cumbria are inadequate. David Hughes, who is disabled, is travelling the UK conducting a survey to find out just how friendly the country is towards disabled people.
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Hospital calls cost u-turn - Lancashire Telegraph 7th July 2007
THE company which runs patients' hospital bed phones has done a u-turn and scrapped a 160 per cent rise in the cost of calls. Earlier this year, private tech firm Patientline announced that the 10p per minute price of a call for people in the Royal Blackburn Hospital and Burnley General Hospital was set to rise to 26p.
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WAITING times at the Royal Bolton Hospital are among some of the shortest in the region. Department of Health figures at the end of May showed 56 per cent of patients referred to the hospital by their GP begin their treatment within 18 weeks - a timescale set by the Government.
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BURY is to become a pilot area for new ways of treating people with mental health problems. Mental health minister and Bury South MP Ivan Lewis has announced the borough will be one of 11 places in the country to develop a new project allowing local people with anxiety and depression to gain access to psychological therapy much faster.
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Health centre is a real tonic - The Bolton News 7th July 2007
AT a time when many people are claiming the NHS is not what it used to be, the opening of a new £4.5 million health centre in Bolton is very welcome. Patients of the Astley Brook Practice voiced their approval of the new Waters Meeting Health Centre yesterday and two other surgeries are due to open there this week.
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