National and International News
A&E units distort data to meet four-hour wait target - The Times 14/03/05
CASUALTY departments have revealed that they are jeopardising patient care and deliberately distorting official waiting times in a desperate effort to meet government targets.
PM admits four-hour A&E review may be 'too rigid' - Daily Telegraph 14/03/05
Targets 'put patients at risk' - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
Target 'putting A&E care at risk' - BBC Health News 14/03/05
BMA says targets put very ill at risk - The Guardian 14/03/05
Moving targets [leader] - Daily Telegraph 14/03/05
A&E treatment targets 'putting patients at risk' - Liverpool Daily Post 14/03/05
Boffins' gene therapy breakthrough - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
A new gene therapy technique could offer hope for people with ALS, the devastating motor neuron disease suffered by leading physicist Professor Stephen Hawking.
Hopes raised for nerve disease cure within ten years - The Times 14/03/05
Minister intervenes in row over drugs to treat Alzheimer's - The Guardian 14/03/05
The health minister Stephen Ladyman has intervened in the growing row over plans by NHS advisers to stop the routine prescription of four drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's drugs plan condemned - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
Alzheimer's drug cuts challenged - BBC Health News 14/03/05
Most people believe risk from mobiles is greater than benefit - Daily Telegraph 14/03/05
Two thirds of people now believe the risks of emissions from mobile phones outweigh the benefits, according to a Government survey.
Hospital names the writer who will make Peter Pan fly again - The Daily Telegraph 14/03/05
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children yesterday named the award-winning children's author Geraldine McCaughrean as the victor in its competition to find a writer to create an authorised sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan.
Peter Pan flies out of past to help hospital face future - The Times 14/03/05
Former dump blamed for cancer cluster - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
Environmental health officials have promised to meet local residents amid concerns a former landfill site near their homes could be causing a cluster of cancer cases.
Calls for UK 'Firesafe' cigarettes' - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
The Government has been urged to press tobacco firms to manufacture cigarettes which put themselves out in a bid to dramatically reduce the number of people killed in house fires.
Concern over patient safety - The Daily Mail 14/03/05
As hospitals battle the MRSA superbug, a survey has indicated "patient safety is not as good as it could be".
Key to severe skin disease found - BBC Health News 14/03/05
Scientists have discovered a gene responsible for a devastating and life-threatening skin disease.
Tories pledge curb on late abortions - The Times 14/03/05
THE Conservatives have pledged to allow parliamentary time for a vote to reduce the time limit for abortions, after Michael Howard referred to the current system as “abortion on demand”.
Bird flu predictions criticised - The Times 14/03/05
THE Government has underestimated the number of Britons who could die in a bird flu pandemic, it was claimed yesterday.
55lb tumour missed for decade - The Times 14/03/05
FOR nearly ten years Trevor Smithson was told by doctors that he was dangerously obese and had only himself to blame for his constant pain, chronic backache and circulation problems.
10,000 Scots waiting a year for first specialist appointment - The Times 14/03/05
MORE than 10,000 NHS patients in Scotland are waiting more than a year to get a first outpatient appointment, according to new figures.
The Doctor: 'I don't want to be a waiter when I could help people' - The Independent 14/03/05
A shortage of doctors, dentists, accountants and other professionals could be cut if the Government changed its asylum policy - and the boost to the Exchequer would be massive, new research finds
Cheshire and Mersey News
Mersey battleground in fight for access rights - Liverpool Daily Post 14/03/05
SINCE the new law on disabled access came into effect last October, helpline staff say there has been a sharp increase in calls from people from the Liverpool area to the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).
Cumbria and Lancashire News
'I'm sure this will be a great success' - Preston Today 14/03/05
Donations are flowing in for the Evening Post's Love Jeanette Appeal in aid of St Catherine's Hospice, with almost £18,000 raised in just weeks.
MESSAGES ON HEALTH IGNORED BY YOUNGSTERS - Carlisle News & Star
YOUNG people in Cumbria are failing to heed messages not to damage their health and are continuing to smoke, drink and take drugs.
'Horror fell through my letterbox' - Blackpool Today 14/03/05
SICKENING anti-abortion leaflets have been posted through doors in Blackpool showing graphic images of a decapitated foetus.
Ending misery of child poverty trap - Blackpool Today 14/03/05
THE Government has pledged to wipe out child poverty in the UK by 2020, but campaigners are warning urgent action is required if that target is to be met.
Poverty: The shock truth - Blackpool Today 14/03/05
THOUSANDS of Blackpool children are being forced to live in desperate poverty.
Greater Manchester News
Patient anguish - Manchester Evening News 14/03/05
EXPERTS in Alzheimer's disease expressed their shock at proposals to deny key drugs to patients.
Outrage at charges for elderly - Manchester Evening News 14/03/05
PENSIONERS in one of the most deprived areas in Manchester are being charged £13 to have a light bulb changed and £10 for a smoke alarm test.
Shipman wife's £35,000 legal bill - Manchester Evening News 14/03/05
IT cost £35,000 in legal expenses for the widow of Harold Shipman to appear at the inquiry into her husband's crimes.
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