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Hewitt rules out limits to private sector role in NHS provision - The Guardian 20/09/06
Patricia Hewitt set out the government's vision yesterday for permanent revolution in the NHS, with no limit on the role the private sector would play in provision of services to patients.
Hewitt's admission on NHS - The Times 20/09/06
NHS billions have not made much difference, says Hewitt - The Telegraph 20/09/06
Hewitt claims reforms will 'safefuard' NHS - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Mary O'Hara: Time to get tough on violence on the wards - The Guardian 20/09/06
Last year, a Healthcare Commission (HC) audit revealed the shocking scale of violence in acute mental health and learning disability settings. Now, 15 months on, it has published an update showing that some progress has already been made. So should this unexpected good news be welcomed as a sign of things to come?
Full circle - The Guardian 20/09/06
Childhood and child welfare are again high on the political agenda, and creating the same outcry as a century ago
Call for ban on advertising to the under-12s - The Guardian 20/09/06
A safety net for mental health - The Guardian 20/09/06
Housing support is proving to be a lifeline for health workers and patients alike, and is a great example of how the two sectors can work together in a way that neither group could do alone, says Chloe Stothart
Clinical trials must not stop access to blood-clotting medication - The Guardian 20/09/06
The accusation that injured British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are being experimented on is a serious charge (Experimental drug given to British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, September 16). However, given that the alleged drug, NovoSeven (Factor VIIa), already appears in some NHS trust guidelines for severe bleeding, one has to ask why British soldiers should be denied it in life-threatening situations if their attending clinician believes it may be of benefit.
This vision of a good society can lift the nation out of social recession - The Guardian 20/09/06
Poverty and insecurity have boomed in Blair's Britain. We must create a society based on the freedom of all to flourish
Paying for IT change in the health service - The Guardian 20/09/06
I wish to clarify a number of points in your article Hewitt admits £82m payments to stricken iSoft (September 13). In relation to advance payments made to iSoft, you quote Richard Bacon MP as saying NHS Connecting for Health "has bent over backwards to try to rescue this company [iSoft] from its financial crisis".
Opportunity knocks on the right doors - The Guardian 20/09/06
Housing is back where it should be at the top of the government agenda, and housing minister Yvette Cooper is seizing her brief with enthusiasm. She talks to Saba Salman on the challenges and priorities ahead
Introduction - The Guardian 20/09/06
The Big Question: Why are we closing hospitals when spending on the NHS is rising? - The Independent 20/09/06
Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Health, vowed yesterday to press on with health service reform saying it was the only way to safeguard the NHS's future. Reform meant "re-shaping" services and bringing in the private sector as a stimulus to innovation.
Doctor's stalker had record of lies and false allegations - The Times 20/09/06
Police were in the dark about previous investigations into her conduct
More patients getting cancer drugs - The Times 20/09/06
The 'postcode lottery' effect seems to be diminishing, with medicines becoming widely available
'Herceptin freed me to work again and marry' - The Times 20/09/06
Baby-boomers face poverty in old age - The Times 20/09/06
A survey finds that half of those nearing retirement will have to sell their homes to pay for nursing care
State’s ‘deliberate confusion puts care of elderly in crisis’ - The Telegraph 20/09/06
Labour is ensuring an impoverished old age - The Telegraph 20/09/06
Count on it: government statistics lie - The Telegraph 20/09/06
Watching the scenes from Budapest yesterday as protesters clashed with riot police after finding out that the government had lied to the electorate in order to regain power made one wonder what would happen here if the Prime Minister made some similarly injudicious comments.
TV gambling adverts ‘should carry warnings’ - The Telegraph 20/09/06
Advertisements promoting gambling should carry a “health warning” about the dangers of addiction, the Church of England said yesterday.
Transplant teenager is still young at heart - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Sally is just 13 but she is kept alive by the heart of a 55-year-old woman. So how has it affected her personality?
Never get flu again! - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Sleep less. Eat more meat. And make love a lot. 15 suprising ways to boost your immunity against those annoying winter bugs
Woken from oblivion with a sleeping pill - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Last week a British woman left in a vegetative state after a road accident astonished doctors by responding to voices, even though she appeared unconscious.
Carol Barnes: How alternative remedies helped me beat the menopause - Daily Mail 19/09/06
For years, Carol Barnes epitomised the 'cool TV blonde'. Then the former ITN presenter reached the menopause, with hot flushes, sweating, uncharacteristic moodiness and a dramatically reduced libido.
I seemed the life and soul of the party. in fact, I was mentally ill - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Alex Fontaine, 39, a successful London businesswoman, suffers from bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.
Back pain was ruining my life - until they rebuilt my spine with plastic - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Spinal fusion is often the last resort for the thousands suffering from intractable back pain. But now an alternative form of surgery - disc replacement - appears just as effective, and promises greater spine flexibility.
Can chewing 40 times cure food intolerances? - Daily Mail 19/09/06
Wheat, milk, cheese, citrus fruit, red meat... the list of foods that people say they can't eat because they have a food intolerance can make them unwelcome dinner party guests.
How brain aerobics helped me conquer my dyslexia - Daily Mail 19/09/06
For years, former Scotland rugby international Kenny Logan, 34, kept secret his inability to read or write. He didn't realise it, but he was suffering from severe dyslexia, a learning disorder thought to affect two million people in the UK.
The gastric band you tighten by computer - Daily Mail 19/09/06
A new stomach band that can be tightened electronically could revolutionise obesity surgery. Patients undergoing gastric banding will no longer have to have further invasive procedures to adjust their stomach size - or even take their clothes off.
One in 20 mothers risk baby's health by drinking too much - Daily Mail 20/09/06
Thousands of mothers-to-be are harming their unborn babies by drinking more than the recommended amount of alcohol during pregnancy, experts have warned.
The green-hating gene - Daily Mail 19/09/06
It's the perfect excuse for any child - some of us are born with a dislike of vegetables.
Cancer man's Senedd NHS protest - BBC Health News 20/09/06
A man fighting for prostate cancer patients in Wales to be offered the same treatment available in England is taking his campaign to the assembly.
Doctors criticise training reform - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Junior doctors in Scotland have called for a national training programme to be delayed unless ministers answer concerns about the scheme.
Many leave old age care unfunded - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Two-thirds of the baby boomer generation have made no plans for their future care needs, a poll suggests.
Anger over NHS-notes-abroad plan - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Hospital workers in Sussex say plans to send patient notes and letters to South Africa or India to be typed could lead to deaths if mistakes are made.
Welsh smoking ban starts in April - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Smoking will be banned in all enclosed public spaces A smoking ban in enclosed public spaces will be introduced in Wales on 2 April, before similar laws in England.
Girls aged seven ‘have anorexia’ - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Girls as young as seven or eight have been treated at Great Ormond Street hospital for eating disorders, a senior consultant has confirmed.
Concerns over private NHS clinics - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Private clinics doing NHS operations have not carried out all the treatment they have been paid for, figures show.
Nurses warn of 'unsafe' staffing - BBC Health News 19/09/06
Staff at a Nottingham hospital's neonatal unit are concerned about what they say are "unsafe" working conditions, the BBC has learned.
International News
Fatty food takes its toll of the French - The Telegraph 20/09/06
The carefully cultivated image of the French as a nation that eats well but stays slim suffered a serious setback yesterday when a study showed that nearly 20 million people were overweight or obese.
Vitamin may prevent MS disability - BBC Health News 20/09/06
Vitamin shots may help protect multiple sclerosis patients from severe long-term disability, a study suggests.
Polio fears grow in north India - BBC Health News 19/09/06
India's health minister has called a meeting of officials from states which have recorded new polio cases.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
Learn about hospices - Wirral Globe 19/09/06
THE ROLE of children's hospices is largely misunderstood with nearly four out of 10 people believing them to be institutions where very sick children stay before they die.
Support group for sufferers of ADHD - Wirral Globe 19/09/06
A WIRRAL man who was only diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder when he turned 32 has set up a support group for other adult sufferers.
A worldwide audience for pioneering hospital - Wirral Globe 19/09/06
DOCTORS and radiographers from around the world are in Wirral this week to study pioneering cancer treatment being developed at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology.
Greater Manchester News
Heart hope for 'time bomb' family - Manchester Evening News 20/09/06
A FAMILY who suffer from a heart condition which means they live on the brink of death have been fitted with pioneering devices that will "shock" them back to life.
Patients have say on mental health - Bolton News 19/09/06
PENSIONERS with mental health problems are being consulted on changes to a care service.
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