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Free health and study - Carlisle News & Star 24th September 2009
This week began with depressingly familiar news that essential services will be either cut or carry a huge charge.
University students were told they should pay more for their loans and accept higher tuition fees as “inevitable”.
Response: There are good reasons why sick leave is high in the NHS - The Guardian 3rd September 2009
Staff must sometimes stay away from work even when well so patients are not put at risk
Occupational hazards in the NHS - The Guardian 20th August 2009
A report about NHS staff has led to us being portrayed by the media as fat and lazy – but the headlines don't tell the full story
Sick leave costs NHS £1.7bn a year - The Guardian 19th August 2009
NHS staff take more time off than other workers, frequently because of anxiety and depression
End of two-tier care-home regime promises better deal for middle class - The Times 13th July 2009
Plans to scrap the two-tier system of long-term care for the elderly, which gives no help to thousands of middle-class families, will be outlined this week.
Ministers are proposing the creation of a universal system giving all families the same “basic entitlement” to help, with the same legal protection, right to an assessment of needs and help in navigating the complex fees of care homes, The Times has learnt.
Case study: ‘They made me feel like my father didn’t count’ - The Times 13th July 2009
Elizabeth Stratton, 63, was given a week to find a home for her 91-year-old father, who has dementia, when he was discharged from hospital after a fall in 2007.
She was shocked that social services in Oxfordshire refused to help because, as a homeowner with savings, her father had to pay for his own care.
Leading doctors demand end of target-driven patient care which 'endangers lives' - Daily Mail 30th June 2009
The scandal of patients dying at Stafford Hospital because targets and budgets took priority over safety could be happening elsewhere, doctors' leaders have warned.
They demanded an end to the 'ludicrous and expensive' market reforms made to the Health Service, which have put patients' lives at risk and wasted billions.
Four in ten would back tax rises to protect NHS, survey indicates - The Sunday Telegraph 28th June 2009
Four out of ten people would support tax increases to safeguard NHS funding during the recession, according to a poll for the British Medical Association.
The unbearable cost of living - The Sunday Times 7th June 2009
Why does nobody take responsibility for negotiating the price of the NHS's drugs down and delivering value for money?
War veteran, 96, turned down for life-saving heart operation due to postcode lottery - Daily Mail 4th June 2009
The NHS is refusing to fund a life-saving heart operation for a 96-year-old war veteran even though doctors say he is the perfect candidate for the procedure.
The £30,000 keyhole operation at London's St Thomas' Hospital would allow sprightly pensioner Charles Coutts - who was an Army major in World War II - to maintain an independent life.
Ditch management consultants from the NHS: leading doctor - The Telegraph 3rd June 2009
Management consultants should be ditched as the NHS is entering a 'dark and dangerous' period, leading doctor warns conference.
New hospitals 'could drain NHS' - BBC Health News 3rd June 2009
Hospital building projects could put NHS finances in serious peril in the coming years, doctors have warned.
New hospitals in England are predominantly funded through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
Hughes backs Christie campaign - Manchester Evening News 18th March 2009
MANCHESTER City manager Mark Hughes has backed our campaign to help The Christie hospital recover £6.5m charity cash lost in a failed Icelandic bank.
Short-term prescriptions attacked - BBC Health News 16th March 2009
Patients with a thyroid disorder should be exempt from the widespread trend of giving just 28 days' worth of medication, campaigners say.
As well as being inconvenient, they say it means the NHS in England is paying for unnecessary prescriptions.
Downturn could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan - The Times 14th March 2009
Thousands of women and children are dying as a direct consequence of the current economic crisis which is already derailing efforts to improve maternal care and cut child death rates, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned.
Speaking to The Times after a meeting of world leaders hosted by Gordon Brown yesterday, Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO, said that risks posed by the credit crunch to poor nations were already taking hold.
PROFILE: Margaret Chan, WHO chief - The Times 14th March 2009
As head of the world’s health authority, Margaret Chan, a diminutive Chinese scientist, is skilled at getting leaders to sit up and listen. People can be “sons of guns” who need to “walk the talk”, while some of the most effective earbending, she believes, can be done by ministerial spouses in the bedroom.
“Have you seen the film Pillow Talk?” she asked her audience at Downing Street on Thursday night. “That’s what its about.”
State spends millions on slimming classes - The Telegraph 14th March 2009
The NHS is sending thousands of overweight people to free slimming classes at the taxpayer's expense.
Government under fire for wasting billions on 'social experiments' that do no good - The Telegraph 14th March 2009
The Government has wasted billions on "social experiments" to improve the health of the poor without any evidence the schemes work, a Parliamentary report has warned.
Bury's a town of 'couch potatoes' - Bury Times 11th March 2009
BURY has been labelled a town of “couch potatoes” after a new government report revealed that one-in-four adults did little or no exercise.
The NHS estimates the cost of Bury’s inactivity to the health service was more than £3.5 million a year — enough to pay for 700 hip replacement operations.
£100m boost for hospital - Carlisle News & Star 12th March 2009
A HOSPITAL is to receive a £100m cash boost to build a state-of-the art facility.
West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven will see the development spring up in the next five years.
The build will be the biggest investment in healthcare in West Cumbria since the hospital was built five years ago.
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