National and International News
Health managers' pay soars as nurses struggle - Daily Mail 16/02/05
Health Service managers are taking home record salaries while hardpressed nurses are struggling for cash, it emerges today. The revelation will fuel fears that the extra billions being poured into the NHS by Labour are being wasted on penpushers rather than spent on vital front-line services.
Daily Mail 16/02/05
The Guardian 16/02/05
Childhood obesity 'epidemic' refuted - Daily Mail 16/02/05
Claims that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions were over-hyped, researchers have claimed. The Social Issues Research Council said that it was no more than "unsupported speculation" to suggest there had been a huge increase in child weights.
BBC Health News 16/02/05
The Times 16/02/05
Superbugs targeted in Tory health manifesto - The Times 16/02/05
THE Tories will promise to clean up hospitals, increase access to GPs through the night and boost the number of dentists when they announce their health proposals today for the general election.
Daily Telegraph 16/02/05
Daily Mail (1) 16/02/05
Daily Mail (2) 16/02/05
BBC Health News 16/02/05
The Independent 16/02/05
NHS not a world health service, say Tories - Daily Telegraph 16/02/05
Health checks on immigrants are vital to stop the NHS becoming a "world health service", Michael Howard, the Conservative leader, said yesterday.
BBC Health News 16/02/05
Conservative MP said health check policy is unethical - The Times 16/02/05
THE Conservatives’ tough new stance on compulsory health checks for immigrants unravelled yesterday after it emerged that the party’s health spokesman had described mandatory testing as unethical.
HIV migrants hit 1,000 in Britain - The Times 16/02/05
ABOUT 1,000 people in Britain have caught HIV from heterosexual intercourse with HIV-positive immigrants since Labour came to power, according to government figures to be published next week.
Big increase in HIV-positive blood donors is revealed - The Independent 16/02/05
The number of blood donors found to be HIV positive has increased dramatically in England and Wales to the highest level for 16 years, internal documents obtained under the Freedom of Information laws show.
HIV man challenges conviction - Daily Mail 16/02/05
An asylum seeker who infected three women with HIV by having unprotected sex despite knowing he had the virus has claimed his convictions for inflicting grievous bodily harm were "unsafe".
BBC Health News 16/02/05
HIV blips 'no cause for concern' - BBC Health News 16/02/05
Temporary increases in HIV levels in patients under treatment generally do not mean the virus is developing resistance to drugs, US research finds.
Foreign surgeons' work attacked as inferior - Daily Telegraph 16/02/05
The standard of work of surgeons from abroad working in independent treatment centres set up to cut hospital waiting lists was questioned by a leading British surgeon yesterday.
The Guardian 16/02/05
Insurers lose 'asbestos' test case - Daily Mail 16/02/05
Insurers face paying out millions of pounds after they failed in a legal bid to stop paying compensation to workers who developed a lung condition after they were exposed to asbestos.
BBC Health News (1) 16/02/05
BBC Health News (2) 16/02/05
You can't beat a good cuppa - Daily Telegraph 16/02/05
New research suggests that the nation's favourite brew might deliver a range of health benefits, reports Barbara Lantin
The unexpected benefits of pregnancy - Daily Telegraph 16/02/05
Many women feel healthier than ever when they are expecting – and research is under way to find out why, reports Christine Doyle
Doctors bonus scheme extended - Daily Mail 16/02/05
A bonus scheme that helped cut NHS operation waiting times is being extended to speed up diagnosis, it has been announced.
Surgeons needed 'to halt crisis' - Daily Mail 16/02/05
Thousands more surgeons are needed to stem a predicted crisis in the profession across England and Wales, a new report has said.
BBC Health News 16/02/05
Healthy-looking men get approval - Daily Mail 16/02/05
Pregnant women are attracted to healthier looking men because they want to avoid maternal illness, according to new research.
Court to rule on care bill - Daily Mail 16/02/05
The Supreme Court is set to rule on the constitutionality of a bill which forces medical card holders to pay for residential care.
Grant will help research flu bug - BBC Health News 16/02/05
Researchers at the University of Bath have won a grant to help produce a drug that could stop flu and several other diseases from replicating in humans.
Hospital patients given TB alert - BBC Health News 16/02/05
Almost 100 people in County Durham have been alerted by health chiefs after it is thought they may have been in contact with a tuberculosis patient.
US to strengthen drug regulation - BBC Health News 16/02/05
The US regulator is to beef up its procedures for overseeing the safety of drugs already in the marketplace.
Hope of saliva tests for cancers - BBC Health News 16/02/05
Saliva tests could be used to detect tumours such as breast cancer, researchers believe.
Improved bladder cancer test hope - BBC Health News 16/02/05
A faster, cheaper and more reliable test to detect bladder cancer has been developed, US scientists have said.
Pill changes a woman's taste in men - The Times 16/02/05
TAKING the Pill has a surprising side-effect according to research: it changes the type of face that a woman finds attractive.
Scotland's free care estimates '£60m a year short' - The Times 16/02/05
THE cost of the Scottish Executives policy of free personal care for the elderly has been underestimated by at least £60 million pounds a year, it was claimed yesterday.
Cheshire and Mersey News
Hospital investigation gives fresh hope - Crewe Chronicle 16/02/05
THE family of jailed nurse Barbara Salisbury have welcomed an investigation by the Healthcare Commission.
Hammer attack man is sectioned - Crewe Chronicle 16/02/05
A MAN suffering from paranoid schizophrenia attacked a neighbour with a hammer, a court heard.
Phone mast sickness survey alarms villagers - Crewe Chronicle 16/02/05
PEOPLE living in two Crewe villages believe their frightening symptoms of ill health could be linked to mobile phone mast radiation.
Asbestos on hospital site - Liverpool Daily Echo 15/02/05
ASBESTOS has been found buried yards from Alder Hey children's hospital. It was uncovered by workmen digging foundations for new buildings next to the oncology unit.
Medical care under one roof - Liverpool Daily Post 16/02/05
AN artist's impression of the new health supercentre to be built in Wirral has been revealed.
Patient concern over high turnover of doctors - Runcorn World 15/02/05
AN UNUSUALLY high turnover of doctors at a Runcorn practice has left some patients anxious. Grove House Practice in High Street saw four doctors leave in three months.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Lowest pay for Cumbrian NHS boss - Carlisle News & Star 15/02/05
The pay of chief executives in the NHS has jumped by more than 70% in the past decade, with top earners now on £200,000, new research showed today.
Countdown to kicking the habit starts now - Bolton Evening News 15/02/05
SMOKERS in Bolton are being encouraged to join the countdown to No Smoking Day next month.
Shops fail underage drink sting - Bolton Evening News 15/02/05
SHOPKEEPERS sold alcohol to children in four out of eight undercover checks carried out at the weekend.
A small price to pay for life [letter] - Bolton Evening News 15/02/05
[Reader's letter] FIRST let me congratulate Bob Norburn on beating prostate cancer. However, I do not think that the NHS should refund the money that he paid for PRIVATE treatment that was not available to all patients on the NHS. I think £8,500 is a small price to pay for your life.
Sixth sense vision on smoking ban [letter] - Bolton Evening News 15/02/05
[Reader's letter] I AM writing in response to your extensive article entitled, "Bolton to go smoke free".
Greater Manchester News
When life at Birch Hill was hell - Rochdale Observer 16/02/05
YOUNGSTERS experienced the world of the workhouse first hand during an art history project based at Birch Hill Hospital.
Stub-it-out song hits right chord - Manchester Evening News 16/02/05
A SONG penned by a 12-year-old to get his mum to quit will be used as the theme tune for No Smoking Day.
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