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Thousands rally to protest against 'destruction' of NHS - The Guardian 02/11/06
Thousands of health workers converged on parliament yesterday to warn that the NHS is being dismantled. The biggest lobby against health cuts since Labour came to power united surgeons and laboratory workers, health visitors and care assistants, senior midwives and young nurses not yet out of training. In many of their hospitals, clinics and surgeries colleagues worked overtime to let them deliver the urgent message: the NHS is now not safe in anyone's hands.
Killing the service - or curing it? - The Guardian 02/11/06
Patients and staff in national rally for NHS - The Guardian 01/11/06
Hundreds to join NHS cuts rally - BBC Health News 01/11/06
Ministers to put patients' details on central database despite objections - The Guardian 02/11/06
Health ministers vowed yesterday to press ahead with uploading millions of medical records on to a central NHS database, even if many people objected to their personal details being included. The Department of Health scorned a campaign, described in the Guardian yesterday, to force the government to abandon the scheme on the grounds that it could breach the confidentiality of personal information.
This medical database does not herald a Big Brother society - The Guardian 02/11/06
The woman falsely labelled alcoholic by the NHS - The Guardian 02/11/06
What can patients do about the new NHS database? - The Guardian 01/11/06
'A national database is not essential' - The Guardian 01/11/06
From cradle to grave, your files available to 250,000 NHS staff - The Guardian 01/11/06
Warning over privacy of 50m patient files - The Guardian 01/11/06
Doctors enjoy the greatest public trust - The Guardian 02/11/06
Doctors are still viewed by the public as the most trustworthy members of society, a poll indicates today.
Doctors 'most trusted profession' - BBC Health News 01/11/06
In praise of ... public value - The Guardian 02/11/06
If a "forward-leaning offer" from a "policy entrepreneur" strikes you more as an abuse of language than as something appealing, you are unlikely to be immediately grabbed by the current buzz words of the wonks - "public value". But for once, as a new report from the Work Foundation argues, there is serious thinking behind this latest entry in the New Labour lexicon.
Revealed: iSoft's U-turn on accounts problems - The Guardian 02/11/06
The software company at the heart of the NHS £6.2bn IT overhaul added £30m to its revenues in 2004 in a move that had the effect of misleading the stock market, the Guardian can reveal, following the lifting of a gagging order which has prevented the publication of an investigation into accounting irregularities at the firm.
The big iSoft turnaround on a £30m accounting gap 'that had to be filled' - The Guardian 02/11/06
Ambulances called out to treat terrified film - The Guardian 01/11/06
An ambulance trust is warning nervous people to be ready to walk out of this year's Halloween horror blockbuster, after crews were called to three different cinemas to treat terrified customers.
Tracy Beasley, manager of the new Third Sector Leadership Centre - The Guardian 01/11/06
Tracy Beasley, manager of the new Third Sector Leadership Centre
Study links genetic factors to cot deaths - The Guardian 01/11/06
Scientists believe they have found the clearest evidence yet of an underlying genetic cause for cot death, opening up the possibility that it may be treatable.
Jennifer Veitch on the future of mental health tribunals in Scotland - The Guardian 01/11/06
Intended as a more humane way to decide the provison of mental healthcare, mental health tribunals have had a shaky first three years. Do they have a future?
Jennifer Trueland on the attempt to empower Scotland's senior citizens - The Guardian 01/11/06
The older population in Scotland is growing and likely to continue to do so. We meet the minister whose mission is to ensure its senior citizens get a clear voice
Jennifer Veitch on the healthy state of the Scottish NHS - The Guardian 01/11/06
Scotland's NHS leads the way in the UK, largely due to the efficiency and flexibility of its partnership working scheme, Joint Future
We gave NHS trusts a health check - not a lie-detection test - The Guardian 01/11/06
It is unfair to imply health managers tried to deceive those assessing their work, says Nigel Edwards
Thousands of hairdressers suffering painful skin disease - The Guardian 01/11/06
Nearly half of Britain's hairdressers are suffering from a debilitating and career-threatening skin disease brought about by the chemicals used in their trade, health inspectors said last night.
Hairdressers 'risk skin disease' - BBC Health News 01/11/06
Mary O'Hara: Catalogue of incompetence shows dangers of restraint - The Guardian 01/11/06
Ever since the public outcry that followed the case of David "Rocky" Bennett - who died while being held face-down by staff in a Norwich mental health unit in 1998 - and the inquiry that followed, each subsequent death of a patient under restraint has been met with sighs of disbelief. How, we ask, when the Bennett inquiry led to a new set of guidelines on restraint, do deaths continue to occur?
Jennifer Veitch on joint working in Scotland's health and social services - The Guardian 01/11/06
Moving over to joint working has proved a difficult transition for many in Scotland's health and social services, and there is still a long way to go. Is it worth it? Jennifer Veitch investigates
Jennifer Trueland on efforts to change Scotland's boozy image - The Guardian 01/11/06
Scotland has paved the way for the rest of the UK by stubbing out smoking in public places. But can it do the same for its boozy image?
Jennifer Trueland on Scotland's free personal care initiative - The Guardian 01/11/06
Scotland broke new ground with free personal care for older people, and is getting a cautious thumbs up from the Scottish parliament. The rest of the UK is watching closely
New direction for sex workers - The Guardian 01/11/06
Negotiating the price of sex, finding a safe place to sleep and dealing with the police indicate an ability to adapt and survive. If sex workers were supported to use these skills to get off the streets and find other work, they could be anything they wanted.
Spine-chilling - The Guardian 01/11/06
The most closely guarded of secrets are often medical. A history of depression, a sexually transmitted disease or a long-ago abortion may well be deeply personal matters which many people would wish to remain private. Likewise, anyone who has recovered from a drug problem or from a suicide attempt may dread nothing more than these facts about their past getting into the wrong hands.
Chemotherapy 'super-cocktail' cuts breast cancer deaths by 30% - The Independent 02/11/06
Doctors have announced that a chemotherapy "super-cocktail" given to women with breast cancer reduced deaths by more than 30 per cent, compared with standard treatment.
All you can eat: the 5,000 calorie diet - The Independent 01/11/06
Cakes, hamburgers, chips and ice cream - it may sound like a fantasy diet, but for Matt Kimpton, who needs 5,000 calories a day just to stay alive, mealtimes are no picnic
Why children born by IVF may be more at risk of autism and childhood cancers - The Independent 01/11/06
The night my daughter was born, I was filled with conflicting emotions. I had dreamed, hoped and prayed for a baby and now here she was, at last. While I was overjoyed, I still could not believe that this longed-for, perfect child was actually mine. Caroline, now 15, will always be extra special to me because I never thought I'd be lucky enough to have her. After years of tests to find out why I was not getting pregnant, followed by invasive medical treatment and devastating miscarriages, my beautiful baby, my own miracle, had entered the world.
'At 16, I was given two hours to live' - The Times 02/11/06
Jonathan Hamilton was 16 when doctors gave him two hours to live after a suspected cardiac arrest.
Red alert for cereal bars as bad for you as chocolate - The Times 02/11/06
Fitness fanatics eat them for a quick breakfast and parents choose them for children’s lunchboxes.
Smoking ban 'a triumph of propaganda over science' says Imperial as sales and profits rise - The Telegraph 01/11/06
The UK's largest cigarette company, Imperial Tobacco, claimed the Government's anti-smoking policy was a failure, after it reported a strong set of profits and an increase in sales in the country. Gareth Davis, the Imperial chief executive, said sales of cigarettes in Scotland had fully recovered from the ban of smoking in pubs and restaurants introduced in March.
Doctors made me a new breast... from my bottom! - Daily Mail 01/11/06
More than 15,000 women a year have a mastectomy for breast cancer and most of these will have breast reconstruction. One of the latest advances is the IGAP where excess fat from the bottam is used to create a more 'natural breast'.
I ignored cancer warning signs...it nearly killed me - Daily Mail 31/10/06
Celebrated photographer Terry O'Neill lived with bowel cancer for ten yeras without knowing it. Then, last Christmas, he developed stomach pains. Within days he was undergoing surgery to remove an enormous growth. Here, Terry, 68, talks to MOIRA PETTY about his illness and its dramatic effect on his life:
Why won't they let Parkinson's sufferers take a life-changing drug? - Daily Mail 31/10/06
When Tom Isaacs was 27 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The condition gradually destroys the brain's ability to control the muscles - there is no cure.
More patients seeking medical help online - Daily Mail 31/10/06
In the past, if you had an embarrassing ailment you had to suffer in silence or pluck up the courage to go to see your GP.
British scientists grow human liver in a laboratory - Daily Mail 31/10/06
British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
Liver cells grown from cord blood - BBC Health News 31/10/06
'NHS not doing enough to tackle patient safety' - Daily Mail 30/10/06
The NHS is not doing enough to tackle the safety lapses that cause up to 34,000 deaths a year in hospitals, according to an independent watchdog.
Assaults against NHS staff fall - BBC Health News 02/11/06
The number of NHS staff being physically assaulted has fallen, official figures have shown.
Hospital kitchen hygiene ‘poor’ - BBC Health News 02/11/06
Shocking hygiene standards have been found in some UK hospital kitchens, a consumer group reports.
Flat keyboard 'could reduce MRSA' - BBC Health News 02/11/06
A hospital has developed a computer keyboard which it says could cut cases of the MRSA superbug by 10%.
Poll suggests split views of NHS - BBC Health News 01/11/06
Half of voters think the NHS is getting worse, but most speak highly of their last treatment, a survey has suggested.
Westerners 'are more promiscuous' - BBC Health News 01/11/06
People in western countries tend to have more sexual partners than those in the developing world, a study says.
Payout to treatment boy's parents - BBC Health News 31/10/06
Parents who remortgaged their home to pay for their young son's vital dental treatment have won compensation from NHS Grampian, BBC Scotland has learned.
A&E plans highlight national fears - BBC Health News 31/10/06
Rochdale's casualty unit sees 56,000 patients a year. But it faces being downgraded to look after minor illness and injuries
Family seeking baby brain answers - BBC Health News 31/10/06
The family of a deceased baby boy have complained that his body was released for burial with his brain missing.
Mental health taskforce is set up - BBC Health News 31/10/06
A new taskforce is to be established in response to a major review of mental health care in Northern Ireland.
Reviews for pathologist's cases - BBC Health News 31/10/06
The convictions in nine murder and manslaughter cases that involved a former Home Office pathologist's evidence are being reviewed.
International News
Scientists find the key to cot deaths - The Times 01/11/06
It is hoped that babies with the brain abnormality that leads to cot death may be identified by a scan in the womb SCIENTISTS believe that they have found the underlying cause of cot death, a condition that claims the lives of hundreds of babies every year.
Cot death linked to defect in the baby's brain - Daily Mail 01/11/06
Brain flaws ‘linked to cot death’ - BBC Health News 01/11/06
New male contraceptive Pill with no side effects - Daily Mail 31/10/06
Men could soon be able to use a 'male Pill' that has no side effects, scientists have revealed.
Regular exercise can help prevent blindness - Daily Mail 30/10/06
Regular exercise can prevent blindness in old age, research shows.
Exercise 'cuts eye disease risk' - BBC Health News 31/10/06
Sad people 'energetic in morning' - BBC Health News 31/10/06
People who go to bed feeling lonely and sad wake up with a surge of energy-boosting hormones, a US study has suggested.
Cheshire and Merseyside News
Hospital storage centre 'a disgrace' - Liverpool Echo 31/10/06
STAFF at a Merseyside hospital are working in "disgraceful" conditions, a senior health and safety officer has claimed.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Provide place for hospital smokers - Lancashire Telegraph 31/10/06
WHILE visiting the new Royal Blackburn Hospital several times I was horrified on every visit to see one or two patients standing outside the main entrance in nightwear and dressing gowns smoking.
A&E plans highlight national fears - BBC Health News 31/10/06
Rochdale's casualty unit sees 56,000 patients a year. But it faces being downgraded to look after minor illness and injuries
Greater Manchester News
Ex-MP Bradley joins Christie board - Manchester Evening News 31/10/06
A FORMER MP who was unseated in an election dominated by questions about the future of the Christie has become one of the hospital's directors.
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