Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
We need a culture shift in patient care in England, the campaigning charity Patients Association urges in its latest report "We've been listening, have you been learning?" released on 8 November. The report details sixteen accounts of poor hospital care related by patients and their relatives on the charity's ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
According to a new study published on bmj.com nearly a fourth of England's population is classified as obese. The study also shows that weight loss programs led by specially trained staff at primary care based services are more expensive and less effective than commercial programs, which are evidently more efficient, ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
According to a study published in BMJ Open, if individuals in the UK ate the average diet consumed by people in England, approximately 4,000 deaths could be prevented each year. The report reveals that in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, death rates for cancer and cardiovascular disease are higher compared ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
On Wednesday 2 November, the British Medical Association (BMA) agreed with the Health Select Committee's request that the new public health body must be independent of the government, a request they have been calling for since the publication of the government's White Paper on public health, Healthy Lives, Healthy People, ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
A BDA website blog written by Dr Susie Sanderson, Chair of the British Dental Association's Executive (BDA's) Board, states that 'this could be the worst time in living memory to be a general dental practitioner in England'. Dr Sanderson argues that dentist's jobs are made more and more ...
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