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- Health bodies call for drugs to be decriminalisedTwo leading public health organisations have called for the possession and personal use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised in the UK. The Royal Society for Public Health and the Faculty of Public Health said the government’s approach to...
- NHS health staff crisis is worse than cash woesThe growing crisis in healthcare professionals’ morale is a greater risk to the NHS than the financial problems it is grappling with. Nigel Edwards, chief executive of the Nuffield Trust think tank, warned staff shortages, disputes with governm...
- Agreement in sight for Junior doctors’ contract dealA potential deal in the long running dispute over a new junior doctors’ contract has been agreed. Government negotiators and the British Medical Association leadership have reached an agreement after eight days of talks at conciliation service...
- NHS understaffed by 50,000 due to bad health planningBad planning and cost cutting have left the NHS in England short of 50,000 vital front line staff MPs are warning. The Public Accounts Committee said the shortfall in doctors, nurses and midwives could even get worse if ministers did not get a “...
- Jeremy Hunt- lies bullshit and poisoned statistics pt 2Following one from Health Direct’s Jeremy Hunt- lies bullshit and poisoned statistics post yesterday. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt and the claim he made about doctors’ contracts So, is it true? Do 6,000 people — or 11,000 — die needlessly...
- Jeremy Hunt- lies bullshit and poisoned statisticson Apr 26, 2016 in Care Professionals Conservatives Doctors Health Direct National Health Service NHS UncategorizedOn the first day of the all out junior doctors strike Health Direct reposts a Financial Times review of Jeremy Hunt’s use of poisoned statistics. We have more data — and the tools to analyse and share them — than ever before. So why is the...
- Obese smokers denied surgeryThe Royal College of Surgeons found a third of local NHS health bosses put restrictions on surgery for smokers and the obese. The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has been increasingly alarmed about the rationing of surgery in the NHS in the tough fin...
- Doctors want new cosmetic surgery lawsSurgeons want new laws to protect patients undergoing cosmetic surgery The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has called on the government to introduce legislation in the next Queen’s Speech to protect patients undergoing cosmetic surgery, as the orga...
- Fourth Junior Doctor strike hits Health Serviceon Apr 6, 2016 in Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals National Health Service NHS Uncategorized health insuranceJunior doctors in the NHS are taking part in a fourth strike in their long running contract dispute. The 48 hour strike started at 08:00 this morning as the doctors prepare legal challenges to the government’s decision to impose changes to thei...
- Sugar Tax- how will it work?A new sugar tax on the soft drinks will be introduced in the UK the chancellor announced yesterday. The move has been hailed by campaigners as a significant step in the fight against child obesity. So how will the sugar tax work? The levy is squarely...
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