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Elderly pay higher care home bills so others can go free - Daily Telegraph 31st October 2009
"Elderly people are being charged thousands of pounds extra for their residential care in order to subsidise others getting free places, care home owners have admitted."
Women denied NHS fertility treatment because 'they cannot carry child themselves' - Daily Telegraph 30th October 2009
"Hundreds of women face a postcode lottery getting NHS funding for IVF treatment because they were born without a womb and require surrogates, the Telegraph can reveal. "
'Talk therapy' for the depressed - BBC Health News 28th October 2009
"Antidepressants should not be used routinely to treat depression in adults with chronic health problems, according to the treatment regulator, NICE.
Depression is two to three times more common in patients with problems such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. "
Who's to blame for Britain's obesity epidemic? - The Observer 25th October 2009
"As newspapers last week descended on an Ipswich bungalow to chart the extraordinary life of the world's heaviest man, a fierce debate broke out about how to respond to the surge in obesity in Britain. How much is it a self-inflicted condition? Should the NHS bear the cost of dealing with its effects?"
£11 million spent studying public fitness levels - The Times 23rd October 2009
"Discovering fitness levels among the population in England is proving an expensive business — £11 million and counting, in fact. That is the cost to the public purse of three national opinion polls asking adults which sports they played and how often. "
Full impact of recession yet to hit UK public sector, study claims - The Guardian 22nd October 2009
"Research says that effects of downturn will not hit some parts of Britain for several months – and that local councils need to prepare for this 'aftershock'"
Women denied cancer drug that could extend life - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence proposes to reject a breast cancer drug despite its own rule changes on end-of-life treatments"
The thorny politics of NHS drug approval - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) is admired by governments abroad but regularly provokes an outcry in the UK. It was devised to do a job no health minister wants to do – to decide which new medicines are worth having in the NHS and which are too expensive.
The drug companies have been understandably hostile from the outset. More difficult for Nice has been the fury of patients' groups, which have sometimes gone into battle on the manufacturers' behalf."
Cancer drugs case study: 'I thought I had a year at most … the difference is huge' - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"Jo Waters, 55, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002.
"I had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy," she said. Then she had six cycles of Herceptin. It appeared to work. "I had two years of remission."
NHS watchdog refuses to sanction life-extending cancer drug - The Times 22nd October 2009
"A drug that can extend the life of women with advanced breast cancer has been turned down for use in the NHS by the cost-effectiveness watchdog.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said it plans to block use of Tykerb (lapatinib) in the Health Service after a second review. The decision comes despite rule changes brought in to let people at the end of their lives have the chance of new and often expensive treatments. "
Thousands of breast cancer sufferers to be denied life extending drug - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"Breast cancer sufferers at the end of their lives should be denied a new drug that could give them three extra months, the NHS rationing body has recommended. "
World's 'fattest man' has £1m care bill - Daily Telegraph 21st October 2009
"Paul Mason, the 70 stone obesity sufferer thought to be the world's heaviest man, has cost taxpayers more than £1m in care, according to reports. "
Breast cancer sufferers will be denied life-extending drug championed by Jane Tomlinson - Daily Mail 21st October 2009
"Thousands of patients with advanced breast cancer are to be denied a 'last chance' drug on the NHS.
The Government's rationing body said lapatinib is too expensive even though its makers will provide the first three months' treatment free of charge."
Scots face 'postcode lottery’ for IVF treatment - The Times 21st October 2009
"Couples seeking infertility treatment in some parts of Scotland are having to wait up to three years longer than those in other areas, it was revealed yesterday.
Labour MSP Jackie Baillie called on the Scottish government to end what she described as a postcode lottery on IVF treatment."
Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation - The Guardian 19th October 2009
"The latest CBI salvo against the public sector is blinkered. Those who dash for dazzling quick fixes will come a cropper"
Action call on IVF waiting times - BBC Health News 19th October 2009
"Labour has called on the Scottish government to end what it claimed was a "postcode lottery" on IVF treatment.\n\nJackie Baillie MSP contacted every Scottish NHS board after a constituent approached her about the length of IVF waiting times in her area. "
Health trusts launch 'sinister' bid to reduce funding for more than 100 life-saving drugs - Daily Mail 19th October 2009
"Health trusts are trying to reduce the number of life-saving drugs pioneered on the NHS, it was claimed yesterday.
A number have joined a lobby group suspected of seeking to influence the type of treatments endorsed by rationing body NICE. "
Half of specialist heart units for children face closure under radical Government plans - The Sunday Telegraph 18th October 2009
"Half of the country's specialist heart surgery units for children face closure under controversial Government plans. "
Care for elderly and cutting costs are priority, says Andy Burnham - The Times 17th October 2009
"The NHS must be “re-engineered” to cope with the demands of an ageing population, the Health Secretary has told The Times. Politicians would have to grow up over the issue of cutting hospital-based services and moving more care into the community.
Andy Burnham said that care for the elderly, and tackling the unfair costs that force many families to sell their homes and use up their savings, should be the priority issue on which people vote at the general election next year. Taking care out of hospitals and closer to people’s homes would be central to this vision. "
NHS make resources count - The Whitehaven News 14th October 2009
"THE county’s primary care trust is among the top third in the country for how it manages its money.
Following a national audit, NHS Cumbria has been praised by an independent watchdog for its ‘use of resources’."
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