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A four-way split on the NHS
BBC Fri, 4 Jul 08 05:03:28 BST
Post devolution, different health systems have emerged in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. What does each have to offer?
Video shows death of US patient
BBC Wed, 2 Jul 08 15:29:16 BST
Video footage emerges of a woman dying on the floor of a New York hospital as workers fail to help for more than an hour.
Three generations grateful for NHS
BBC Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:26:02 GMT
The Fernau family have good reason to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS.
Deaths in US helicopter collision
ALJAZEERA Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:14:13 GMT
At least seven killed as two medical helicopters collide in mid-air in Arizona.
7 die in Arizona chopper collision
PRESSTV Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:10:49 GMT
A US federal aviation spokesman says at least seven people have died after two medical helicopters collided in midair in Arizona.
Call to scrap NHS parking fees
BBC Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:37:03 GMT
Labour unveils plans to scrap parking charges at Scottish hospitals
End cheap alcohol - police chief
BBC Sun, 8 Jun 08 11:56:29 BST
Steve Green, the Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire, accuses the drink industry of putting profits before public health.
MoD urged to do more for injured soldiers returning to UK
GUARDIAN Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:05:36 GMT
Surgeon general says MoD has 'much to do' to care for the growing number of seriously injured personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
NHS to reveal surgery death rates
BBC Thu, 29 May 2008 12:35:32 GMT
The NHS is set to publish hospitals' mortality rates for certain kinds of surgery, it has been revealed.
Fed's Fisher: US Rate hikes could come sooner vs later
SILVERBEARCAFE Fri, 30 May 2008
The US Federal Reserve would likely increase interest rates "sooner rather than later" if inflation worsens, even if the U.S. economy remains weak, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Wednesday.

Fisher is one of the Fed's leading policy hawks, urging the central bank to focus more on the need to quell inflation, which he termed "a sinister beast."

He has tallied three straight dissents against the Federal Open Market Committee's moves to lower benchmark lending rates.

"Growth cannot be sustained if markets are undermined by inflation," Fisher said. "Stable prices go hand in hand with achieving sustainable economic growth."

At this point financial markets believe the FOMC will leave its federal funds rate steady at 2 percent in June. The rate has been cut from 5.25 percent since mid-September to shore up sagging economic growth. Markets also guess that the Fed will start raising rates in the fourth quarter.

Fisher did not discuss the near-term economic outlook but focused on "the mother of all financial storms" brewing from unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and its intersection with monetary policy.

"Deficits ... create political pressure on central bankers to adopt looser monetary policy," Fisher said, vowing that the Fed would not cave in and "run the printing presses."

"Even the perception that the Fed is pursuing a cheap-money strategy to accommodate fiscal burdens, should it take root, is a paramount risk to the long-term welfare of the U.S. economy," he said. "The Federal Reserve will never let this happen. It is not an option. Ever. Period."

Fisher said the Fed's various term credit facilities launched since the global credit crunch erupted in 2007 "are helping restore confidence."

By contrast, he said, the long-term fiscal prospects for the United States, if not tackled head-on "will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets."
Hospitals hide funds to rein in surplus
FT Mon, 26 May 2008
Hospitals and primary care trusts have prepaid suppliers many hundreds of millions of pounds and have hidden money in other ways in order to keep the National Health Service surplus for last year down to the forecast £1.8bn.

Without such action, senior NHS managers say, the declared surplus for the NHS in England in the financial year just ended is likely to have been nearer £3bn.
PFI & PPP - Enron UK?
ZYEN Mon, 26 May 2008
Know the one about the £392 billion organisation with off-balance sheet finance? Wouldn't you like to know about special purpose entities, off-shore accounts, strange sale and buy-back arrangements or arcane percentage ownership and disclosure rules before investing? Wasn't Anthony Hilton comparing this organisation's "financial smoke and mirrors" to Enron in The Evening Standard [11 March 2002]? Welcome to the world of PFI, PPP and the UK government.
Bug closes hospital 'for months'
BBC Wed, 21 May 08 11:31:12 BST
An Oxfordshire community hospital is closed to admissions for several months after an outbreak of a virulent bug.
Thinktank urges end of NHS prescription charges
GUARDIAN Tue, 13 May 2008 23:12:32 GMT
PM should abolish NHS prescription charges to outflank the Tories, the Fabian Society urges
3 killed in US chopper crash
PRESSTV Mon, 12 May 2008 08:14:36 GMT
A medical helicopter en route Wisconsin University hospital in Madison has crashed shortly after taking off from the La Crosse Airport.
Drinking too much water maybe harmful
PRESSTV Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:37:22 GMT
Scientists say there is no proof for the urban myth that it is beneficial for the average healthy individual to drink a lot of water.
Chemists 'to offer GP services'
BBC Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:37:31 GMT
High-street pharmacies should play a greater role in providing care for minor ailments to free up GPs, the government says.
Zawahri says Bin Laden is 'healthy'
PRESSTV Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:34:47 GMT
Al-Qaeda second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, says Osama bin Laden is healthy and reports speculating about his sickness are false.
Prescription charges drop to £5
BBC Mon, 31 Mar 08 23:09:53 BST
The cost of NHS prescriptions in Scotland are cut from £6.85 to £5, in the first move towards making them free.
How To Get Cheaper Dental Treatment
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Can you think of any unpleasant, traumatic ordeals you'd pay to undergo? For many people, a trip to the dentist comes top of the list. Millions of us are now dipping into our savings - and even getting into debt - to keep our gnashers in good nick.

Worryingly, recent figures from dental clinic Dentale indicate that over 11 million Britons didn't visit their dentist in the past two years - because they couldn't afford it.

So if you're struggling to afford dental costs, what are the options?

Here, I'm going to have a look at why it's so difficult to get affordable dental treatment, what NHS care is still available, and what the other options are.

The "Iron Lady" taken to hospital
PRESSTV Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:47:36 GMT
Former British Premier, Margaret Thatcher, 82, has been taken to hospital for tests and observation in London.
Privacy fear over NHS card loss
BBC Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:11:01 GMT
Thousands of NHS computer "smartcards" used to give access to confidential patient records have gone missing.
NHS workers 'paid £120 an hour'
BBC Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:11:49 GMT
Hospitals have paid over £120 an hour for agency workers to cover for gaps in staffing, latest figures show.
Iraq veterans denied help
GUARDIAN Sun, 03 Feb 2008
Hundreds being refused vital assistance for combat trauma
C.Diff boss fights for more cash
BBC Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:31:35 GMT
The former chief of the NHS trust in a superbug scandal is attempting to increase her £75,000 payoff.
GP surgery privatisation protest
BBC Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:03:29 GMT
NHS staff take part in a demonstration after a private company is handed a 10-year contract to run a health centre.
Tories attack ministers over NHS drugs deal
GUARDIAN Thu, 31 Jan 2008
The Conservatives last night accused the government of "dreadful incompetence" after health ministers admitted letting pharmacists make £811m in excess profits dispensing NHS prescriptions.

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, said parliamentary answers showed pharmacists in England exceeded an agreed maximum profit by 60% in 2005-6 and 102% in 2006-7.

The contract, introduced two years ago, was hailed by the government as a breakthrough for patients and a cost-saving measure for taxpayers. Pharmacists agreed to provide extra services, including management of repeat prescriptions to help patients avoid unnecessary trips to the GP and more advice to improve customers' health, and accepted a cap on profits from dispensing drugs - reducing their take from £800m to £500m a year.
Imperial aims to attract research elite with new centre
GUARDIAN Thu, 31 Jan 2008
First academic health science centre announces ambitious recruitment targets
NHS trusts 'reject homoeopathy'
BBC Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:02:27 GMT
NHS trusts slash funding for homeopathic services amid concerns about efficacy and the need to cut costs.
Iran-made glue to replace stitches
PRESSTV Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:09:50 GMT
The Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization has used human blood plasma to produce fibrin glue which can replace surgical stitches.
Exercising in cold a health boon
PRESSTV Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:28:03 GMT
According to a new study done in US, working out in the cold is not only good for you, but it's safer than working out in the heat.
Minister fails to halt up to £75,000 payoff to superbug hospital's ex-head - Chief executive quit before report on 90 death - She had been awarded a severance package worth more than £250,000
GUARDIAN Fri, 25 Jan 2008
The former head of an NHS trust where at least 90 people were killed by the Clostridium difficile hospital superbug was yesterday given a substantial payoff despite attempts by Alan Johnson, the health secretary, to stop it. Rose Gibb resigned as chief executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust in October, a few days before the Healthcare Commission published a damning report linking the deaths to slack management and poor hygiene.

Johnson stepped in after the Guardian revealed she had been awarded a severance package worth more than £250,000. He told the trust to freeze the deal and seek legal advice on how to withdraw from providing her with any further remuneration. He also sacked the trust's chairman and called for a departmental review of his role in agreeing Gibb's redundancy terms.

But yesterday the trust said she would receive a settlement worth up to £75,000. It said she had a legal right to a payoff worth half her annual salary, which had been between £145,000 and £150,000.
Western demand drains Philippines of 85 per cent of its trained nurses
INDEPENDENT Fri, 25 Jan 2008
People in the Philippines are queuing up to train as nurses as they seek ways of escaping dire poverty by working abroad. This year 15,000 Filipinos will leave to nurse the sick and the aged in the West, following the vast majority of the country's trained nurses.
Bug trust NHS chief gets pay-off
BBC Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:54:21 GMT
The former boss of the NHS trust at the centre of a superbug scandal will be paid off with half her salary.
Brazil confirms 8th yellow fever death since Jan.
XINHUANET Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:38:00 GMT
BRASILIA, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian Health Ministry ...
31 people hospitalized in Brazil for overdose of yellow fever vaccine
XINHUANET Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:37:16 GMT
BRASILIA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Health Ministry ...
NHS performance 'kills thousands'
BBC Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:11:56 GMT
More than 17,000 deaths a year are unnecessary and down to poor NHS performance, a study says.
Hospital A&E under pressure
BBC Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:30 GMT
Officials ask people to only use a hospital's A&E service if really necessary after a "significant increase in admissions".
Worrying about bad health may be what causes it
XINHUANET Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:41:03 GMT
Want to cause your gums to deteriorate, as well as your heart, and be susceptible to illnesses from the common cold to cancer? Worry about your health.

That's the answer according to a review essay in the Dec. 27 issue of the Association for Psychological Science's magazine Observer that reveals new research crossing the disciplines of psychology, medicine, neuroscience and genetics, the mechanisms underlying stress are rapidly becoming understood.
GP contract 'not value for money'
BBC Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:47:00 GMT
Patients are not receiving the best service from GPs despite their pay improving, an assembly report finds.
'I've no idea when I'll get a dentist'
BBC Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:48:50 GMT
Patients are struggling to get access to an NHS dentist. One patient speaks about his fight for treatment.
Dentist shortage hits "millions"
BBC Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:16:43 GMT
One in six people are struggling to get access to NHS dentistry, a poll shows.
Honesty call over ICU beds move
BBC Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:26:02 GMT
Politicians are demanding a full explanation of plans to merge some intensive care services.
US DEAD LAST in Avoiding Deaths from Treatable/Preventable Disease
SPARTACUSLIVES Thu, 10 Jan 2008
A new medical study shows that the U.S. ranks last among industrialized nations in avoiding deaths by preventable disease. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found a preventable-disease death rate of 110 for every 100,000 Americans.

According to the new study, the deaths include deaths from infections, treatable cancers, diabetes, and heart and vascular disease. The study’s authors say it is difficult to ignore the likely connection to the rising number of medically uninsured Americans.
Doctors 'face assaults epidemic'
BBC Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:44:39 GMT
One in three doctors have been either physically or verbally assaulted in the last year, research suggests.
Debt-ridden hospitals get handout
BBC Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:52:58 GMT
A deal is brokered to bail out two debt-ridden hospitals using money from a regional NHS budget.
MP attacks NHS emergency system
BBC Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:22:59 GMT
There are not enough beds to cope with emergencies across Worcestershire, an MP claims.
In full: Brown speech on the NHS
BBC Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:20:32 GMT
Here is the full text of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's speech on the NHS and health screening plans.
NHS 'now four different systems'
BBC Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:02:40 GMT
There are now four different NHS systems in operation since devolution, according to health chiefs.