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Fast-track service for sexual health in city - Liverpool Daily Post 28th October 2009
"A FAST-TRACK pilot scheme allowing people to access sexual health services in 15 minutes has been launched in Liverpool.\n\nThe Central Abacus clinic, in Dale Street, will run the scheme for six weeks on Tuesdays, between 4pm and 6pm."
Senate health care bill to include public option - The Guardian 27th October 2009
"Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan steeped in controversy. Reid, D-Nev., said individual states would have the choice of opting out of the program. "
Mersey man's death in health service racial inequality report - Ormskirk Advertiser 22nd October 2009
"THE death of a Merseyside man has been highlighted in a report tackling racial inequality in the health service.
New guidance has been issued by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to make sure ethnic minorities get the right treatment."
Senate panel passes health bill - BBC Health News 14th October 2009
"A Senate committee has approved a bill to reform US healthcare, a key step in President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul the system.
Senators voted by 14 votes to nine to pass the bill, with one Republican joining Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee in voting in favour. "
Special letter said thank you for saving my life - Liverpool Echo 14th October 2009
"TA medic who treated the injured in Afghanistan tells Greg O’Keeffe of the letter that meant so much
IT was only a piece of paper but for Tracey Smith-Straney it meant all the world. The few lines were from the commanding officer of one of the terribly wounded soldiers she had helped, saying he had survived and since become a father."
Obama's health plans get shot in arm from first Republican backer - The Independent 14th October 2009
"President Barack Obama at last cut a small chink in the armour of the political opposition on Capitol Hill yesterday when a key Republican voted with her Democrat colleagues to help bring his healthcare reform plan one crucial step closer to reality."
US health reforms could hit other countries - BBC Health News 10th October 2009
"The US spends 16.2% of GDP a year on its healthcare, twice as much per head as the UK does, and yet the average American's life expectancy is lower.
Whilst public debate on US health reform concentrates on reforming the insurance industry, the larger debate over how to change a system that has profits at its heart has become obscured. "
In sickness and in healthcare - The Observer 11th October 2009
"My healthcare plan is called 'Don't get sick' and it's worked so far. But here's my emergency back-up plan: marry a European"
Gareth Thomas: Basic healthcare for the world's poor should be a right, not a luxury - The Independent 6th October 2009
"Last week I was in Sierra Leone, where I met Aisata Jabbie, an 18 year old mother in agony after complications during a home birth. She couldn't afford to give birth in the local hospital.
She is just one of millions of mothers and children suffering from preventable diseases and conditions that a basic level of healthcare would cure. Yet the vast majority of the world's poorest people have no access to any kind of medical facilities, and those who do are often seen by untrained medical staff dealing with chronic shortages of medicine "
Scrounging foreigners? British expats accused of health tourism in Spain - The Guardian 5th October 2009
"Doctors say other EU nationals are a drain on Spain's medical service"
Uganda's misplaced health millions - BBC Health News 4th October 2009
"On a sun-drenched Sunday after a weekend in the country with his wife and two colleagues, Diego Angemi drives from the Sipi Falls in eastern Uganda towards the capital, Kampala.
He has travelled this stretch of road many times before but this time there is a dramatic turn of events. A hit-and-run accident has left a boy lying unconscious at the side of the road. "
Politicians and their commitment - The Bolton News 29th September 2009
"IN response to the recent letter from prospective councillor Guy Harkin regarding Andy Morgan’s comments on the Tories and the NHS.
Well, Mr Harkin I note your statement that “It is my strong view that any politician’s commitment to any area of public service is directly proportional to the extent that he or she and their family use that service.” "
The NHS is ranked 14th out of 33 European healthcare systems - Daily Telegraph 28th September 2009
Britain's healthcare system is just ahead of Slovenia and the Czech Republic among European nations, according to healthcare analysts.
The NHS? It's about as good as the health system in Slovenia - Daily Mail 29th September 2009
The National Health System is on a par with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, according to an analysis by European researchers.
The NHS came 14th out of 33 European countries, making it one of the worst systems in Western Europe.
Would you go further for better healthcare? - BBC Health News 23rd September 2009
John Black, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, says too often decisions which are vital for improving healthcare are being 'fudged' by politicians.
He says they seem to prefer an average service provided in their constituency rather than an excellent one further away.
My great escape: Garrison Keillor - The Independent 21st September 2009
A stroke forced author Garrison Keillor to face up to mortality – and gave him a sobering insight into the stark realities of America's healthcare debate
It's nasty. It's scary. But face it, it's not new – America was built on racism - The Guardian 16th September 2009
When it comes to respect for former president Jimmy Carter's staunch and consistent anti-racist stance and his fearlessness in speaking what he considers to be the truth without fear or favour, I take a back seat to no one.
He has stated that much of the ire aimed at President Obama's healthcare reforms, his spending plans and other initiatives is based on racism, that there is an inherent sense in America that no African American should be president of the United States. Inherent?
Health user fees damage children's health - The Guardian 14th September 2009
The British government is right to highlight the highly damaging consequences of health user fees (Brown leads push to bring free healthcare to tens of millions, 12 September). Although these fees are not the only barrier to accessing healthcare, a wealth of research evidence shows that, when they are introduced, poor people's demand for primary health services falls, and when they are abolished, it increases dramatically.
Cheers greet Obama as he defends radical healthcare reforms - The Independent on Sunday 13th September 2009
President rouses fervour reminiscent of election as he answers his critics in a rousing Minneapolis rally
Taking his pitch for healthcare reform to main-street America with a rousing rally in a basketball arena in Minneapolis, Barack Obama vowed yesterday that his plan would overturn a broken system which, according to newly released figures, leaves half of those aged under 65 without insurance at some point.
Protests over Obama health reform - BBC Health News 12th September 2009
Tens of thousands of people have marched from the White House to Capitol Hill in Washington to protest against Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.
The demonstrations came as the US president sought to boost support for his plans during a Minneapolis rally.
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