International, National & Local Health & Social Care News
Calls to screen for bowel cancer
The government has been urged to introduce a national screening programme for bowel cancer.
BBC Health News 7/08/03
Complications slow surgery on twins
The neurosurgeons in Singapore who are trying to separate adult Iranian twins joined at the head were forced to slow their unprecedented surgery to a near halt last night as the pressure of the sisters' brains on each other made the procedure harder than expected.
The Guardian 8/7/03
The Independent 8/07/03
BBC Health News 8/07/03
Cosmetic clinics under fire
Many cosmetic surgery clinics in England fail to carry out proper checks on their surgeons' qualifications, a study has found.
BBC Health News 8/07/03
Dear doctor
Dr Ann Robinson answers your questions on food intolerance, psoriasis and eye surgery
The Guardian 8/07/03
Flat out
After 12 years of encouraging parents to put their babies to sleep on their backs to avoid cot death, a new report from paediatricians in America is warning that it is causing newborns to develop flattened heads.
The Guardian 8/7/03
Happy together?
Doctors in Singapore are operating to separate the conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani - a brutal surgery that may kill one or both of the patients, who are joined at the skull - though the procedure offers the sisters no hope of longer lives, nor any change in their general physical wellbeing.
The Guardian 8/07/03
I give up
When I went to California I was flabbergasted to learn that smoking was banned in restaurants and bars. It was like some freaky joke. How did everyone put up with it? I ended up snouting round San Francisco for illegal smoke-easies. When I heard, earlier this year, that they had done the same thing to New York, I was scandalised.
The Guardian 8/07/03
Patients cannot pay rising costs of prescriptions, warns group
The National Health Service, long promoted as free and universal, is becoming prohibitively expensive for many patients caught in a byzantine system of unfair and discriminatory charges, a coalition of medical and consumer organisations says today.
The Independent 8/07/03
Prison dentist pulled healthy teeth for profit, court told
A prison dentist pulled out inmates' healthy teeth to make money from the NHS, Wolverhampton crown court heard yesterday.
The Guardian 8/07/03
Ten-month-old child swallows ecstasy pill
A boy aged 10 months was being treated in hospital last night after swallowing an ecstasy tablet.
The Independent 8/07/03
The long wait
My sister and I have always been poles apart. Sadie was "the brainy one" and I was "the sporty one"; she was "the rebel" and I was "the good girl"; she likes garage and (much to her disgust) I like alt.country; she runs a record label and I work in the media; she goes for "bad boys" and I go for whimsical intellectuals. Her kidneys and pancreas don't work; mine do.
The Guardian 8/07/03
This is not a cure for the NHS
The prime minister's recognition that the government has not been getting its message across is welcome. But sadly this signals a change in presentation rather than policy. He clearly hopes, by the combined efforts of a change in tone and the votes of Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs, to impose foundation hospitals on the NHS in England. That will harm the NHS and its patients. Moreover, it will be just as damaging to the government and the Labour party because opponents of foundation hospitals are not going to curl up and die.
The Guardian 08/07/03
Cheshire & Merseyside News
Blair faces revolt over NHS reforms
Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a backbench rebellion over plans for NHS reform which critics claim will create a "two-tier" health service.
Liverpool Echo 7/08/03
Medical records found dumped
A hospital has launched an investigation into how confidential medical records dating back 60 years came to be found by a group of teenagers at a disused building site.
Liverpool Post 7/08/03
Cumbria & Lancashire News
Health fears after audit
NEARLY 500 women have been put at risk of catching hepatitis or sexually transmitted diseases after a GP surgery failed to properly sterilise instruments.
Burnley Citizen 7/07/03
He's top doctor
AS a patient of Dr Chandra since he took over the practice on Blackburn Road -- 30 years ago -- I am disgusted at the way he is being treated.
Bolton Evening News 7/07/03
New hope for campaigners over care homes
CAMPAIGNERS hoping to prevent the closure of elderly people's homes in Bury and Radcliffe have been told that at least one will be saved.
Bolton Evening News 7/07/03
Poor funding blamed for rise in HIV cases
POOR funding of HIV services in Bolton is being blamed after the number of new cases of the disease almost doubled in a year.
Bolton Evening News 8/07/03
Greater Manchester News
Baby’s brain removed and destroyed while parents kept in dark
HOPE Hospital has been heavily criticised by the Health Service Ombudsman for clinical and ethical failings surrounding the death of a baby whose brain was retained and destroyed without consent.
Salford Advertiser 4/07/03
One in three lifeline Post Offices to go?
CITY leaders say they now fear as many as one in three Salford Post Offices face the axe. Cllr David Lancaster is this week demanding Royal Mail bosses reconsider plans to close uneconomic branches under the tough nationwide Reinvention Programme.
Salford Advertiser 4/07/03
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