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Hewitt vows to quit if NHS fails to stay within budget - The Guardian 22/11/06
Patricia Hewitt told MPs yesterday that she will resign as health secretary if the NHS in England does not break even financially by March.
Tory areas get less NHS cash - The Times 22/11/06
Hewitt defends NHS cash for Labour areas - The Telegraph 22/11/06
NHS deficits my problem - Hewitt - BBC Health News 21/11/06
Charm offensive - The Guardian 22/11/06
He is charged with taking risks to roll out the scheme that allows people with long-term conditions to be experts on their illnesses, but first he must persuade primary care trusts to part with their cash. By John Carvel
David Walker: Perils of empowering the people - The Guardian 22/11/06
Bertold Brecht, whose Life of Galileo was recently revived at the National Theatre, conquered the dictionary of quotations with his remark about an authoritarian government - as in East Germany - dismissing the people and electing another people in their place. For some, that's the last word on democracy. The people can do no wrong; only governments, their politicians and officials, can err.
New bill is leaner, but many say meaner - The Guardian 22/11/06
Here we go again. For the third time, and more than eight years after it set the process in train, the government is attempting to reform English and Welsh mental health legislation to facilitate what would in effect be compulsory treatment in the community and preventive detention of people deemed to have dangerous and severe personality disorders.
Endurance tests - The Guardian 22/11/06
People who are HIV positive are living longer and more healthy lives. But as these personal accounts show, stigma, fear and misconceptions can still be the harsh reality
First person account of life with an HIV positive diagnosis - The Guardian 22/11/06
'I feel physically great, I enjoy my work, I enjoy my relationship' - The Guardian 22/11/06
First person account of life as an HIV specialist nurse - The Guardian 22/11/06
First person account of live with an HIV positive diagnosis - The Guardian 22/11/06
Schizophrenia much more likely in children of single parents - The Guardian 22/11/06
Children born into families which split up before they are 16 are two and a half times more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life than those brought up by parents who stay together, psychiatrists leading the largest UK study into why people develop psychosis revealed yesterday.
Databases could be danger to young, says study - The Guardian 22/11/06
New government databases containing details on every child in England could increase dangers to children, divert scarce resources and create a "surveillance culture" in which parents are sidelined and family privacy shattered, according to a report published today by the information commissioner.
Warning over data on children - The Times 22/11/06
Child database ‘will ruin family privacy’ - The Telegraph 22/11/06
Mother says it would be 'unbearably cruel' to try to wake vegetative patient with drug - The Guardian 22/11/06
The elderly mother of a woman in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) who a judge ruled should be given a "wonder drug" which could temporarily awaken her while leaving her severely disabled told the judge that it would be "unbearably cruel" to let her live, it emerged yesterday.
Perhaps this 'miracle drug' can wake brain-damaged patients. But what kind of life awaits them? - The Guardian 22/11/06
Doctors warn patients of 'backstreet Botox' dangers - The Guardian 22/11/06
Doctors have urged patients to avoid "backstreet" Botox treatments after four people were hospitalised following injections with an unlicensed product.
Botox treatments prompt warning - BBC Health News 22/11/06
Pressure grows for end to mixed-sex hospital wards - The Independent 22/11/06
Protests were growing last night over the NHS's failure to eliminate mixed-sex wards, almost a decade after the Labour government pledged to phase them out.
Life expectancy is 81 for women - but gap between rich and poor is widening - The Independent 22/11/06
Life expectancy in the UK has reached a record high - but regional variations in the age at which people die are widening, indicating that government measures to reduce the gaps between the richest and poorest in society have failed to produce results.
Where to live if you want a healthy old age - The Telegraph 22/11/06
Wireless networks may not be worth the headache - The Times 22/11/06
The attitude of your health editor on wireless networking in schools (“Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks”, Nov 20) beggars belief.
Prince visits Great Ormond Street wing - The Telegraph 22/11/06
The Prince of Wales recalled yesterday once being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital as he and the Duchess of Cornwall visited a new wing designed to further improve its care for children.
It’s not what they can’t do, but what they can… decks - The Telegraph 22/11/06
Chailey Heritage School gives new hope and inspiration to some of the most disabled children in the country.
'Why I believe every parent has a right to choose their baby's sex' - Daily Mail 21/11/06
Amazing though it is to consider, the first baby born anywhere in the world by sex selection is now almost 17 years old.
Home testing kits put to the test - Daily Mail 21/11/06
You can buy them at the chemist or online - but will a home testing kit REALLY reveal what’s wrong? We put DIY diagnosis to the test
My arthritis is so bad that every step’s agony - but it won’t stop me dancing - Daily Mail 21/11/06
Despite suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, actress Claire King, 43, has been dancing with her partner Brendon Cole all day, every day in a bid to reach the finals of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. Here she tells ISLA WHITCROFT how she is determined that the disease will not interfere with her quest
'Mercy death' charges are dropped - BBC Health News 22/11/06
Charges against a woman who claimed she helped her aunt die in a "mercy killing" in Devon have been dropped
Britons 'in denial' over alcohol - BBC Health News 22/11/06
Britons are in denial about the effect of drinking excess alcohol on their health, according to a survey.
Call for improved dementia care - BBC Health News 22/11/06
Care for people with dementia in England and Wales must be more co-ordinated, with better access to specialist services, a watchdog says.
Woman makes final embryo appeal - BBC Health News 21/11/06
A woman left infertile after cancer treatment is making a final appeal for a court to allow her to use frozen embryos fertilised by a former partner.
Inquiry into prison care of young - BBC Health News 21/11/06
The Home Office has agreed to an independent inquiry into the treatment of young people with mental health problems in the prison system.
Broken home linked to psychosis - BBC Health News 21/11/06
People from broken homes may be more prone to psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, research suggests.
Life expectancy hits record high - BBC Health News 21/11/06
Life expectancy has hit record levels, but there are huge variations in the number of those years spent healthy.
GPs threaten to snub NHS database - BBC Health News 21/11/06
Half of all GPs will consider refusing to put patient records automatically on to a new national database in defiance of the government, a survey finds.
NHS board reviews girl's therapy - BBC Health News 21/11/06
Health board officials have begun a review to decide whether to fund treatment for an eight-year-old girl with a rare degenerative condition.
Family shocked by hospital death - BBC Health News 20/11/06
The husband of a woman whose death after routine neurosurgery in hospital is being investigated by police has spoken of his family's devastation.
International News
Chinese HIV/Aids cases up by 30% - BBC Health News 22/11/06
The latest figures on HIV/Aids in China show a 30% jump in reported cases, according to health officials quoted in state media.
Aids pandemic gains renewed strength - The Guardian 22/11/06
The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the UN.
HIV epidemic 'is getting worse' - BBC Health News 21/11/06
Cheshire and Merseyside News
NHS unit to open for profit - Liverpool Daily Post 21/11/06
A HOSPITAL trust on Merseyside is investigating the possibility of building a "private hospital" for paying patients within its own grounds.
Time for TV condom ads? - Liverpool Daily Post 21/11/06
CONDOMS should be advertised on television, public health experts said last night, after it emerged almost half of teenage pregnancies in Liverpool are terminated.
Heart surgeons perform operations live on camera - Liverpool Echo 21/11/06
OPERATING theatres were transformed into studios as Liverpool doctors performed a heart surgery marathon on camera.
Should smoking breaks at work be banned? - Liverpool Daily Post 21/11/06
WITH the smoking ban in enclosed public spaces such as pubs and clubs due to become law next year - in a move largely instigated by Liverpool and its smoke-free campaign - businesses and workplaces are now also getting in on the act.
Blast for soft option on junk food ban - Liverpool Echo 21/11/06
HEART of Mersey has criticised a media watchdog for stopping short of a ban on junk food advertising on TV.
Trouble squad cost NHS £1.1m - Liverpool Daily Post 20/11/06
TROUBLE-SHOOTER teams hired to sort out a cash crisis in the local NHS have cost taxpayers more than a million pounds.
Cancer centre gives patients more freedom - Liverpool Daily Post 20/11/06
PATIENTS at a Wirral hospital are to get more freedom - thanks to special pagers.
Oncology unit creates a buzz - Wirral Globe 22/11/06
New campaign aims to cut AIDS risk in young - Wirral Globe 21/11/06
WIRRAL'S young people will be the focus of a new health campaign to try to stem the rising tide of sexually transmitted infections among 16-24 year olds in the borough.
Cumbria and Lancashire News
Out of court settlement for bereaved parents - Lancashire Telegraph 21/11/06
THE parents of a man who died from septicaemia have received "substantial" compensation from a hospital in an out of court settlement.
Greater Manchester News
Baby girl is found lifeless in cot - The Bolton News 21/11/06
DOCTORS have been unable to find out what caused the death of a 10-month-old baby girl who was found lifeless in her cot by her mother.
Hospital chiefs in baby unit complaint - The Bolton News 21/11/06
HEALTH chiefs in Bolton have lodged an official complaint against a hospital for continuing to lobby for support in its bid to become a maternity super centre - after the public consultation has been closed.
Transplants: The difference between life and death - The Bolton News 21/11/06
IF ever people had any doubts about organ transplants then they should look at the effect a life-saving transplant had on Emma Standish.
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