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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”

 

• Disabled woman died after NHS blunders, ombudsman finds

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Mother and charity claim doctors provided inadequate care because of attitudes based on womans disabilities A catalogue of mistakes by an out-of-hours GP service and a hospital contributed to the death of a young woman with physical and learning disabilities, the NHS ombudsman says on Tuesday in a highly critical ...
  3 days ago

• GPs will face Ofsted-style inspections, Jeremy Hunt announces

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ratings published every year will take into account safety, effectiveness and patient experience at GP practices Englands 34,000 family doctors will face Ofsted-style inspections overseen by a new chief inspector of general practice to secure "safe and responsive care", the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is to ...
  3 days ago

• Letters: Matters of life, death and economics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  It is the first duty of governments to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens. It is a priority objective of the EU, enshrined in legislation. Surveys show it is top of peoples concerns. So when we read that Nordic politicians are not surprised by the work of David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu ( Austerity kills , ...
  3 days ago

• Today is International Clinical Trials Day in UK by @NHSChoices #NHS #AllTrials

  
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  International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated around the world on or near the 20 May each year, to commemorate the day that James Lind started his famous trial on the deadly disease scurvy. It provides a focal point to raise awareness of the importance of research to health care, and highlights how partnerships ...
  3 days ago

• Today in healthcare: Monday 20 May

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector Clare Horton Claire Burke Sarah Johnson        
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• Frontline may bridge the gap between academia and local authorities

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The new Frontline scheme should not be dismissed by the profession but, alongside it, workplaces also have to change While not everyone will agree with the governments media messages about providing a solution to high-profile social work failures, the new Frontline scheme to train social workers should not be ...
  4 days ago

• What the NHS can learn about integration from the voluntary sector

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Charities have been involved in providing and improving health and wellbeing services since well before the creation of the NHS Earlier this week Norman Lamb announced the governments ambition to make integrated care the norm in the NHS in the next five years. In his speech, he referred to the example of the ...
  4 days ago

• McGrigor writes to Minister on Campbeltown Hospital

  
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  Following the public meeting in Campbeltown on NHS Scotland’s reduction of beds at Campbeltown Hospital, Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, sent the following email on Friday 17th May to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Alex Neil MSP. He is to update us when he receives a reply. ‘Dear ...
  4 days ago

• Weekend Round-Up

  
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  Here’s what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been en-Eurovisoning: Thousands turned out for yesterday’s Save Our NHS march. Police wanted 1: this man following three sexual assaults on SW London buses. Police wanted 2: this teenage gang following building society raid on Friday. Report on London’s ...
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• Book Review: Why Reforming the NHS Doesn’t Work – The importance of understanding how good people offer bad care

  
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  A few weeks ago I was asked to write a brief book review. The book was by Valerie Isles and takes an intelligent and nuanced view of chang e management in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Many books forget how change management affects the patient, this book doesn’t. With this in mind I thought it might ...
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• First major breakthrough in IVF treatment for decades

  
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  Experts at CARE Fertility in Victoria Park were the first in the country to use an incubator that takes thousands of snapshots of developing embryos to select one with a low risk of defects.
  5 days ago

• Mothers-to-be hit as maternity ward lifts remain out of order

  
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  Pregnant women being admitted to North Manchester General have had to use the stairs since last Friday when both lifts stopped working.
  5 days ago

• The story of Jane and Jessica

  
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  Jane is 34 years old and lives in a London Borough called Leafbury with her 30-year-old partner Eric. She has four children from a previous relationship, aged 14, 12, 10 and 8, but they do not live with Jane and Eric. Jane openly admits she is “not the mothering type” and does not have a close relationship with ...
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• Why are more people going to A&E?

  
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  That seems to be the question which is currently challenging health politicians and the media. Of course it is not a new question for those working in healthcare, since it is perfectly possible to track each and every attendance and episode of care that takes place. Even before I stopped being a commissioner at the ...
  5 days ago

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

  
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  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Hospital staffing levels in England unsafe, say nurses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  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

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  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

  
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  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".
  1 week ago

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