Northampton General Hospital denies late rush to hit A&E target - Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Northampton General Hospital denies late rush to hit A&E target - Northampton Chronicle & Echo:

Northampton General Hospital denies late rush to hit A&E target Northampton Chronicle & Echo By Nick Spoors TREATMENT for more than 8000 A&E patients was pushed through just before they would have breached the waiting time target at Northampton General Hospital, figures show. The yearly NHS figures for 2011 show about 95 per cent of emergency ...

NHS to get £28m cash boost to improve access to dentists

NHS to get £28m cash boost to improve access to dentists:

820,000 more people have already been given access to an NHS dentist since May 2010. Twenty eight million pounds of funding will be announced, which will bring the number of extra people now able to access an NHS dentist to one million.

The funding will be given to PCTs, who have bid for the cash to spend on expanding local services in ways that best meet their patients’ needs. NHS Networks

Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare

Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare:

This is aimed at healthcare professionals who will have a specific role in this initiative or are considering the future implementation of personal health budgets. Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare is the first of a number of informative documents on the subject. NHS Networks

Vitamin D – advice on supplements for at risk groups

Vitamin D – advice on supplements for at risk groups:

This letter from the Chief Medical Officers for the United Kingdom published today, raises awareness of the risk of vitamin D deficiency amongst certain groups particularly:

• All pregnant and breastfeeding women



• Infants and young children under 5 years of age



• Older people aged 65 years and over



• People who have low or no exposure to the sun



• People who have darker skin

The letter also contains a list of recommendations issued by all the UK health departments for people at-risk on whether they may need to take vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D – advice on supplements for at risk groups

Brains may be wired for addiction

Brains may be wired for addiction: Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists. BBC News - Health

GP leaders turn back on NHS plans

GP leaders turn back on NHS plans: The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the government's controversial reforms in England. BBC News - Health

Health Bill: 137 changes made to win over House of Lords

Health Bill: 137 changes made to win over House of Lords: The Government has made 137 late amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill in an effort to ease the concerns of worried peers. Kings Fund Health News

Tax and regulate sugar like alcohol and tobacco, urge scientists

Tax and regulate sugar like alcohol and tobacco, urge scientists: Sugar is as toxic to the liver as alcohol and is at the root of obesity and certain types of liver disease, claim US scientistsSugar should be regulated in the same way as alcohol and tobacco because its increasing use in processed foods poses a significant danger to public health, according to a group of scientists. They advocate controlling sales to children under 17 and taxing sugary foods.Sugar, they argue, is as toxic to the liver as alcohol and overconsumption is at the root of growing public ...Kings Fund Health News

Food poisoning link to UK watermelons

Food poisoning link to UK watermelons:

Watermelons may be the source of a salmonella outbreak across the UK which has affected 35 people, leading to one death.
Independent

Outbreak of Salmonella Newport

Outbreak of Salmonella Newport: The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is investigating an outbreak of a strain of Salmonella Newport infection among 30 people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since the beginning of December 2011. Cases of illness caused by the same strain have been confirmed in Scotland, Ireland and Germany.