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• in Social Media
  Facebook and the NHS Team Up for Organ Donation Campaign
  Social network Facebook and the NHS team up for organ donation campaign to raise awareness of the organ donor register
  by elementalcomms / on May 2, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Giving Blood - A Quintessentially British Experience
  Never has the spirit of Britain been captured more accurately than in the blood donor waiting room.
  by mactingz / on Nov 29, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Healthcare Reform in NHS - Is Competition Always Bad?
  Much is made of competition to improve healthcare. But does it need improving?
  by hugie / on May 29, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nhs”

 

• YANKED: Boom in DIY dental kits as patients cannot afford NHS fees

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 563
  Unable to afford soaring charges, almost a fifth of people have all but given up going to their dentist, the Sunday Express has discovered. There has been a surge in sales of dental kits at pharmacies including chemicals to whiten teeth. Experts say that up to 200,000 DIY dentists risk injuring themselves and ...
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• Hospital staffing levels in England unsafe, say nurses

  
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  Warning comes as poll shows more than three-quarters of nurses say Mid Staffordshire scandal could happen again A group of senior nurses is warning that staffing levels on many hospital wards in England are unsafe. The Safe Staffing Alliance (SSA) says wards often have just one registered nurse looking after eight ...
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• Ambulance half-hour wait times go up 58% under coalition

  
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  Department of Health report on 30-minute delays reveals worsening crisis in emergency care The number of ambulances waiting outside accident and emergency departments for more than half an hour has gone up by 58% under the coalition, figures reveal, providing further evidence of a crisis in the NHS. Nearly 99,000 ...
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• Celebrating Nursing

  
  Life in the NHS — Authority: 102
  Over the past 6 weeks or so I can honestly admit that I have been taking things rather easy. I am now over the experience of organisational change and redundancy and from my encounters with colleagues employed in the new worlds of NHS England and the local Commissioning Support Unit, I am well shot of it all. My ...
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• World’s ex-fattest man poses in nude [POLL]

  
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  I’m going to take the unusual step of putting it all after the break, so you are in control of what you’ll do to your retinae: Paul — once the world’s fattest man at 70st — shed an incredible 46st in three years but as a result has so much loose flesh it completely covers his wedding tackle. Ex-postie ...
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• Great headline ...

  
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  Shame about the small print "The offence of giving false information will apply to all providers of NHS secondary care, including private firms, and will initially be restricted to the treatment of mortality data. It will apply to organisations rather than individuals".
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• UK NHS: OK to ask about Clinical Research, get involved with @OfficialNIHR OK to ask Campaign

  
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  During 2013/14 The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is promoting the fact that it’s OK to ask about clinical research. The campaign is aimed at patients, medical professionals and the public. Everyone can get involved and help spread the word that it’s OK to ask about clinical research. f you have a ...
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• NHS 111- warnings over seriously flawed health cover

  
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  Patients have already lost confidence in the 111 non-emergency number because it is providing a “seriously flawed” service in some parts of the country, one of Britain’s most senior doctors has warned. Dr Clare Gerada, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, attacked the Government for putting ...
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• GPs should be encouraged to prescribe exercise at the same time as medication

  
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  At the Breast Cancer Campaign event last night – held at The House of Lords – I watched as Gerard Varin received the charity’s Fundraiser of the Year award. In April last year, Gerard ran the equivalent of a marathon a day for a month – from his home in Derbyshire to his birthplace in [...]
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• Colorado Virtual Academy’s National Honor Society 2012-13 Induction Ceremony

  
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  * Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA) qualified for a charter membership in the National Honor Society (NHS) in 2010 and 8 COVA students were inducted as new members in a virtual ceremony held in August. Last night COVA celebrated its 3rd year as a charter member in the National Honor Society and inducted 7 new members ...
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• 2013 Skateboarding Hall Of Fame Induction

  
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  Check the photos and watch Rodney Mullens induction by Steve Caballero and...
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• How Much Would A New Bridge Cost From A Private Dentist?

  
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  Q. I have had a bridge made and fitted on the NHS for my two bottom front teeth, I am not happy with it at all. The false teeth are “taller” than my own teeth, a different colour, keep coming loose ( have to keep going back to the dentist to have it re- cemented which costs me £18 ...
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• $60k for man wrongly told he had terminal cancer

  
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  Filed under: News John Stillwell/PA Mark Templin, a retiree from Montana, has been awarded $60,000 damages, after wrongly being told he had terminal brain cancer and just six months to live. Templin had sold his possessions, held a final birthday party and bought a funeral package. However, when he started to ...
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• A&E: Food Chain of FT Hospitals!

  
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  Looks like the plot is already there about our A&E which without doubt is still trusted by the average punter (aka patients) and business is booming that our SoS is forced to act. Ha, perhaps he is powerless. A&E is the beginning of the Food Chain for FT Hospitals. The Independent: ...
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• Hospitals reveal 750 blunders that should never have happened

  
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  More than 750 patients have suffered after preventable mistakes in England’s hospitals over the past four years. The incidents, such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving instruments inside patients, are categorised by the Department of Health as “never events”. This means they are incidents that ...
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• Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

  
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  Join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 15th May at 4pm for a Health and Wellbeing event, looking at the themes of growing up, the changing nature of friendships, pressures and choices, alcohol use, s*xting and resilience. It is aimed at pupils in second year of secondary school. Gone is an interactive, cross curricular ...
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• A & E: An inconvenient truth

  
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  Faced with an anticipated shortfall in GP numbers, the last Socialist Administration renegotiated the terms of conditions, giving doctors a huge wage increase and waiving the requirement for out of hours service. It is, however, an inconvenient truth that people do not necessarily fall sick during the hours of 9am and ...
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• In Your Shoes: Events to Look at Adult Mental Health Service

  
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  From the NHS Partnership Trust: In May we are running ‘In Your Shoes’ events for our staff to listen to adult mental health service users and carers talk about their experiences in our care. We want to hear what makes the most difference to you and learn about what we can build on, what we can do differently, ...
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• A&E- accident and emergency facing serious problems

  
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  Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments are facing a “serious problem” a health minister has said, after NHS chiefs ordered urgent action to tackle growing pressures. Rising attendances have meant A&E units in England have started struggling to hit the four hour waiting time target. The problem has ...
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• UK Healthcare Spending compared to Mortality Rate

  
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  The graph below shows the comparison between public and private spending on UK healthcare compared to the mortality rate between 1997 and 2011. Summary:  The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that spending on healthcare slowed considerably between 2009 and 2011. However, this does ...
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