NHS stop-smoking service 'a success' The first decade of NHS stop-smoking services in England has been hailed a success by researchers. BBC News
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013
NHS Employment Check Standards updated
NHS Employment Check Standards updated The NHS Employment Check Standards have been revised (July 2013). The Standards outline the employment checks that employers must carry out before appointing staff into NHS positions across England. NHS Employers
Updated flu fighter communications toolkit now online
Updated flu fighter communications toolkit now online View our refreshed communications toolkit and pick up all the tips you need for running a brilliant flu fighter communications campaign. NHS Employers
CCGs failing to involve hospital doctors
CCGs failing to involve hospital doctors CCGs are breaching NHS England rules by failing to appoint consultants to board posts, a BMA survey suggests. GP Online
Making recovery a reality in your community: a briefing for commissioners of mental health, drug and alcohol services
Making recovery a reality in your community: a briefing for commissioners of mental health, drug and alcohol services This briefing urges commissioners to tackle the poorly integrated support received by those with overlapping needs. It identifies new commissioning arrangements in public health and the NHS as an opportunity to put recovery at the heart of commissioning to build better lives for people with multiple needs. It argues that by focusing on what matters most to people's lives – a home, a job, family and friends – services can enable people with multiple needs to build better lives on their own terms.
Health check programme is pointless says leading GP
Health check programme is pointless says leading GP RCGP head says money for health checks is wasteful OnMedica News
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- Doubts over 40-plus health checks BBC News
- VIDEO: Health checks 'vital' for diagnosis BBC News
- VIDEO: Health checks 'a waste of time' BBC News
We ignore the rise of suicide in people with mental illness
We ignore the rise of suicide in people with mental illness Despite public campaigns to combat stigma around mental illness, people with mental health problems still face ongoing discrimination. And while some sections of the media focus on mental illness in cases of violence, a rise in the number of people who are more of a risk to themselves goes unnoticed. We still find it difficult [read the full story...] The Mental Elf
Why doesn't the NHS know how many patients have chemotherapy?
Why doesn't the NHS know how many patients have chemotherapy? Tim Kelsey, NHS director of patients and information, believes big data can transform the performance of the NHS.
The heart disease 'time bomb'
The heart disease 'time bomb' Three in four adults are likely to suffer illnesses such as heart disease or diabetes by 2030, according to a government report which warns that the NHS will not have enough staff to cope.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
Complacent? Alarm sounded over huge variations in legal safeguards for the vulnerable
Complacent? Alarm sounded over huge variations in legal safeguards for the vulnerable
The “fundamental human rights” of vulnerable people could be at risk, a leading mental health charity has warned, after new figures revealed huge regional variations in the use of key legal safeguards. The Independent
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The “fundamental human rights” of vulnerable people could be at risk, a leading mental health charity has warned, after new figures revealed huge regional variations in the use of key legal safeguards. The Independent
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- Mental Health: Use of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards continues to rise Health & Social Care Information Centre
- Thousands of dementia sufferers threatened with restraint The Daily Telegraph
- Number of patients being tied up and locked in rooms by care staff DOUBLES as MPs issue warning about hospital abuse The Daily Mail
Child deaths from heart defects plummets – thanks to the NHS
Child deaths from heart defects plummets – thanks to the NHS
Fixing a child’s heart is one the most intricate operations that the NHS performs. Surgeons who do it must operate on tiny babies whose hearts are hardly bigger than walnuts and whose veins are little more than a hair’s breadth across. The Independent
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