UKPolling Report (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
There were two purported polls of medical professionals this week. A survey by Pulse, a magazine for GPs, surveyed 326 GPs on their voting intentions and found support standing at CON 52%, LAB 8%, LDEM 22%. Meanwhile a survey of NHS managers by the Health Service Journal found voting intentions at CON 29%, LAB 50%, LDEM [...]
Musings from Medway (Free subscription) | yesterday
You may have seen NHS Blood and Transplant has this week launched the first UK-wide multimedia organ donation campaign. Would you take an organ if you needed one? Nearly everyone would. But only 27% of us have joined the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Somehow in all the flood of recent news we almost missed this article from the UK’s Telegraph: Attack in NHS hospital ‘every three minutes’ Someone is attacked in an NHS hospital in England every three minutes as doctors describe A&E departments as ‘war zones’, official figures show. 04 Nov 2009 Nearly 170,000 violent incidents take place in [...]
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let's start with a quote: Information systems are no longer associated mainly with data processing; they are increasingly seen as a management tool and an aid to action. This means that the costs of failure are much greater, and these costs are incurred when expensive systems are not used or are inadequately used. Surveys have shown that in as many as half of systems there are large gaps between users'...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dental practices in Norfolk are set to provide NHS services from 2010 following extra investment from a primary care trust.
LDP - The Legal Week (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
NEW FIGURES from the NHS Litigation Authority show that pay-outs made in clinical negligence cases rose to £807m in 2008/2009. The amount paid out was up around 20% on 2007/2008 when £661m was paid in compensation and solicitors' fees....
John Rostill's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have to register under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. We need to apply for registration in January 2010. The Care Quality Commission is currently consulting on proposed fees for registration and it looks as though it will cost this Trust £60,000 per year. Politics! Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Health, is/has been in Washington (perhaps...
computing (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 6 November 2009 at 10:34:00 Bury is first trust to deploy new version of software The NHS Bury trust went live with its Lorenzo electronic patient record software on Tuesday - it is the first trust to use this version of the software and the fourth to go live this year. The new version, Lorenzo 1.9, has its own patient administration system as well as a electronic health...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A survey by US think tank the Commonwealth Fund has rated the NHS top in a number of key areas comparative to other international health systems.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
BHOPAL: The Union Government has prepared a working plan for development of all national highways in Madhya Pradesh. The ambitious plan, to be implemented by the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry, will see an investment of ...
News from People Management (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Cases of bullying in the NHS are likely to increase as the health service faces workforce changes and a squeeze on government spending, delegates at the annual NHS Employers conference heard.
@wedwardes - wine for spice etc. (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I was chatting with a lady at my doctor's surgery a few days and she heard me mention the "C" word at the reception. Well she had recovered from breast cancer and chatting it turns out that she had been given a wig on the National Health Service. Well I thought. I'm bald. I've got prostate cancer. I should also have a wig. Perfect logic, eh? But no thanks. I started cutting my own hair a...
UK Against Fluoridation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fluoride opponents 'misreading' tooth decay research, warns NHS ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners claiming the state of children's teeth is improving without the controversial chemical are misinterpreting the figures, according to NHS chiefs. Higher than average child, tooth decay was key to the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) approving Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposals in February...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Moves to make it easier for NHS community service providers - from district nurses and therapists to community hospitals - to become free-standing foundation trusts...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago
A WOMAN left with drastically shortened arms and legs by thalidomide, and incapacitated further by a severe stroke, does not deserve 24-hour home care, an NHS trust has ruled.
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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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