Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
It 20-odd years ago now, but I still remember exactly where his bed was – second on the right as you went in. It must have been around 8.45pm. I was in charge that day, it had been a pretty standard day, and I was just doing a last walk round the ward, checking on anyone [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Couples are to be offered marriage guidance counselling for free on the NHS in a move which has drawn strong condemnation from patients and doctors' groups.
Doctor Bloggs (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Lions led by Donkeys - the modern NHS healthcare worker Where the troops died in the trenches of WW1 and Britain stood alone against Europe, patients now die in the beds of the NHS The NHS was set up to provide medical care for the working people of this country. Its purpose, to help people recover from illness without being concerned about medical bills and get back to work. The NHS has become the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
EVEN fewer Lothian hospital workers are washing hands properly, despite health bosses vowing to get tough to combat the threat of swine flu and superbugs.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
EVEN fewer Lothian hospital workers are washing hands properly, despite health bosses vowing to get tough to combat the threat of swine flu and superbugs.
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Labour’s Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper have written to David Cameron attacking his misleading comments yesterday suggesting Labour planned to cut disability benefits. It followed an email to Conservative Party member where he said "unbelievably, they're cutting disability benefits for the oldest and most vulnerable members of our society."...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Boothroyd Liberal Democrat hacks have been knocking 'Against the Odds', claiming credit for the NHS belongs to Sir William Beveridge. The truth is that Beveridge had a minor role which was over before he even joined the Liberals. Before the NHS, workers who paid National Insurance had family doctor consultations paid for, but people not in work had to pay their own way. By the end of the...
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
When Sarah Palin said Obama’s healthcare plan would result in “death panels” that would see bureaucrats making subjective judgements on life and death, she was furiously howled down by Obama supporters. So how should we describe the expert panel of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which decided that patients will be denied a [...]
icWales (Free subscription) | yesterday
A former head of the NHS under Labour has shown support for a Tory policy to free the health service from tight Government control.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The NHS should be freed from direct government control and run as a separate body without political interference, according to its former chief executive. In an article that will be interpreted as support for Conservative reform plans, Sir Nigel Crisp urges the Department of Health to focus on wider health issues while allowing the NHS to manage itself. "The time is ripe for a new settlement...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC Wales health correspondent Hywel Griffith examines the Welsh Labour leadership candidates pledges on health care.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A TRAINING scheme using e-learning at NHS 24 has been recognised with a national award.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The NHS should learn to say sorry to patients when mistakes are made, a health watchdog says.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Three managers at a company providing cleaning staff to an NHS hospital were arrested yesterday on suspicion of blackmailing foreign colleagues.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A former head of the NHS under Labour is backing a Conservative policy to free the health service from tight government control.
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entangledalliances | 23/08/2009
What connects U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and your Grandma? The answer, if you’re a right-wing American, is that all three would be left to die if the NHS – Britain’s world famous universal health service – had its way. Yes, that’s right, welcome to the madness that is the current debate in the US over health-care reform: a bizarre dumping ground for crazy that has
wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Norfolk’s first NHS–provided psychiatric intensive care unit [PICU], was officially opened by Pat Holman, chief executive, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust at a ceremony held at Justin Gardner House at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich – and was immediately described by one expert as the best ward of its type in the country. The 10–bed Rollesby Ward...
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Justin Gardner House
Justin Gardner was a brilliant man. He had his patients interest at heart and he knew that depression could affect anyone and I mean anyone. I think that...
Justin Gardner House
whote message are sending to patients by naming a mental heath unit after Justin Gardner who took his own life in 2005,by hanging himself
Eco Fridge
Ever time I visit a freind at Justin Gardner House at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich I find that it is so cold in this building even when the temp outside...
wellbeingnewseditor | 18/07/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Under the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, a refugee is a person who has left the country of their nationality ‘owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion’ and is unable or unwilling to return. In the UK, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied...
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