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• Putting Health Care into Context

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 674
  When I got a message on my Blackberry early this afternoon that the good folks over the pond in the US of A passed a Health Care reform bill and nonchalantly relayed the information to my friend, an immigrant from New England, he looked at me as if I was living on a different planet. “Get the F@#k out of here”, ...
  4 hours ago

• Labour Achievements: Healthcare

  
  Chuka Umunna - Streatham Labour — Authority: 121
  The creation of a high quality, free and universal healthcare service for everyone in Britain is a great Labour legacy. Since entering government in 1997, the Labour Party has worked to ensure that the NHS is constantly improving, saving lives and helping communities. More investment in front Line services There ...
  9 hours ago

• GOD BLESS OBAMA...

  
  Biased BBC — Authority: 576
  The BBC continues to provide comment on Obama by using hard left commentators such as Dennis Kucinich. Today @ 7.52am. In essence, the line peddled by Kucinich is that the US needs an "NHS" model of health-care and so the Obamacare model does not go far enough. Its amazing how the BBC is only prepared to provide a ...
  16 hours ago

• Teenage alcohol abuse up, study finds

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Record numbers of teenagers are receiving help for drug and alcohol problems, but the number of those undergoing counselling for heroin and crack use is falling, official figures show. A total of 24,053 under-18s in England were treated in 2008-09, according to statistics from the NHS National Treatment Agency for ...
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• PALS in prison: a toolkit and good practice guidance for implementing Patient Advice and Liaison Services in a secure setting

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: PALS in prison: a toolkit and good practice guidance for implementing Patient Advice and Liaison Services in a secure setting Skinny: Toolkit and good practice guidance for commissioners and providers of healthcare in the criminal or youth justice sectors, covering the implementation of the Patient ...
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• An overview of the new arrangements under Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and urology appliances, and related services, in primary care

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: An overview of the new arrangements under Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and urology appliances, and related services, in primary care Skinny: Looks at provision for new essential services to be provided by all pharmacies and appliance contractors including emergency supply of ...
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• Directions to NHS bodies concerning the cost of telephone calls 2009

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: Directions to NHS bodies concerning the cost of telephone calls 2009 . Skinny: Regulations that came into force on the 21st December 2009 regarding telephone charges in the NHS. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 2p. Published: 22/12/2009 Posted in Financial Management, Grey Literature, NHS ...
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• The use of 084 Numbers: directions to NHS bodies

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: The use of 084 Numbers: directions to NHS bodies Skinny: Dear Colleague letter from Nick Hall introducing Directions to NHS bodies concerning the cost of telephone calls 2009 . Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 1p. Published: 22/12/2009 Posted in Financial Management, Grey Literature, NHS ...
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• Age equality in health and social care

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: Age equality in health and social care Skinny: Review of age discrimination and age equality in the health and social care sector.  Analyses evidence about the nature, extent and variability of age discrimination in health and social care services. Considers reforms are already in train to tackle age ...
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• How cycling paramedics are saving lives in hilly Sheffield | David Bocking

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Cycling paramedics are often only seen in flat urban areas, but Sheffields finest have managed to master the citys terrain Cycling paramedics are an increasingly common sight on urban streets around the UK. But if the city happens to be hilly Sheffield, how do you get to the emergency as quickly as possible on ...
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• Should the entire body be scanned before having the dental treatment?

  
  Cosmetic Dentistry Guide — Authority: 148
  Q. I recently visited an NHS dentist as an old crown had come off (root filling still intact), also the outer side of my left upper back tooth had snapped off on its outer side. He advised me that the crowned tooth had decay below the gum line, making it unsuitable for another crown to be fitted. He explained that ...
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• Coroner furious after a grandmother dies in burning agony following NHS injection blunder

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A grandmother died after gross failures by NHS doctors who injected her lungs with a chemical that was ten times the recommended strength, a coroner ruled today. Rosemary McFarlane, 64, spent ten days in burning agony after receiving the lethal dose during what should have been a routine procedure. The caustic ...
  2 days ago

• Hospital gave fatal dose to woman, 64

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Coroner says neglect contributed to death of woman given medical product 10 times too strong during routine procedure A series of failures resulted in a 64-year-old woman who was undergoing a routine procedure being given a fatal dose of a medical product which was 10 times the recommended concentration, a coroner ...
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• Taking A Break…

  
  High Quality Care For All — Authority: 118
  We hope you found last week’s publications interesting - as David Nicholson made clear in his foreword to the Operating Framework 2010-11, quality remains the organising principle of the NHS going forward. We’ll be back after the new year, keeping you up to date as ever on issues of quality, and the ways in which ...
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• How is the financial crisis affecting the UK’s National Health Service

  
  Healthcare Economist — Authority: 425
  In the 1990s, the UK’s National Health Service may have imitated most American’s idea of what is wrong with a single payer system.  However, when Tony Blair became Prime Minister in 1997 government spending on the NHS increased.  Over the past decade spending on the health service has risen by over 6% a year in ...
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• Diary of an evening at A & E

  
  Littlemummy.Com — Authority: 125
  6.30pm Arrive at A&E, check-in with reception. Get called ‘Erin’ 6.35pm Wait in waiting area. Bright lights, hard chairs and no heat. 6.45pm Taken in with ill party (close family member) to see nurse. A few questions and a urine sample. Nurse explains that surgery cannot be done at this hospital, ...
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• One New Immigrant Patient Every Minute: How The Immigration Invasion is destroying the NHS

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 595
  The liberal lie that “immigration is good for the NHS” has been exposed once again with the news that the health service is on the point of collapse as one new immigrant patient registers for its services every minute — and you pay for it. According to a report compiled by independent think tank Migrationwatch, ...
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• A MIGRANT A MINUTE KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 525
  I read that Immigrants are registering with a UK GP for free healthcare at a rate of more than one every minute.   Analysis of NHS research shows that 605,000 people who arrived from overseas registered with a doctor in England and Wales last year - up by 50 per cent in only seven years. Campaigners say this ...
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• Using the CQUIN payment framework – an addendum to the policy guidance for 2010/11

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  Title: Using the CQUIN payment framework – an addendum to the policy guidance for 2010/11 Skinny: The Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework makes a proportion of providers’ income conditional on quality and innovation.   This is an addendum to the Using the Commissioning for ...
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• Cameron says Tory government would double funding for hospices

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Funding for hospices would be doubled under a Conservative government, David Cameron said today as he spoke of how his family had been "blown away" by the excellent care provided for his late son Ivan. Childrens hospices, which receive around £100m in public and private funds, would see that amount doubled under a ...
  3 days ago

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