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• Health bodies call for drugs to be decriminalised
  on Jun 16, 2016 in Conservatives Health Direct Health Websites Healthcare Preventable Crisis Risk of Drugs Uncategorized preventable crisis
  Two 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 woes
  on Jun 10, 2016 in Care Professionals Conservatives Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals National Health Service NHS Nurses Private Healthcare Uncategorized private health
  The 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 deal
  on May 20, 2016 in Conservatives Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals National Health Service NHS Private Healthcare Uncategorized
  A 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 planning
  on May 11, 2016 in Conservatives Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals National Health Service NHS NHS Cash Shortages Nurses Uncategorized private health
  Bad 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 2
  on Apr 27, 2016 in Conservatives Doctors Health Direct National Health Service NHS Uncategorized
  Following 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 statistics
  on Apr 26, 2016 in Care Professionals Conservatives Doctors Health Direct National Health Service NHS Uncategorized
  On 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 surgery
  on Apr 22, 2016 in Doctors Health Direct Healthcare National Health Service NHS NHS Targets Obesity smokers Uncategorized Wellbeing obese private health Surgeons weight loss
  The 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 laws
  on Apr 12, 2016 in Cosmetic Surgery Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals Preventable Crisis Private Healthcare Uncategorized cosmetic surgery private health Surgeons
  Surgeons 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 Service
  on Apr 6, 2016 in Doctors Health Direct Health Professionals National Health Service NHS Uncategorized health insurance
  Junior 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?
  on Mar 17, 2016 in Conservatives diabetes Diets Health Direct National Health Service NHS NHS Cash Shortages NHS Deaths Obesity Preventable Crisis Uncategorized weight loss nhs cash shortages obese preventable crisis
  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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