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The prospect of Patricia Hewitt having to fulfil a promise to resign was virtually eliminated yesterday as officials at the Department of Health became increasingly certain that the health service in England will be in surplus when the financial year ends on Saturday. The NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, ordered the dispersal of £450m from a contingency reserve to bolster the balance sheets of hospitals and primary care trusts. He expects the last-minute injection of resources to push scores of NHS organisations into surplus.
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NHS bosses charged with delivering the much-delayed £6.2bn IT upgrade to health trusts throughout England have launched a £100m-plus drive for "additional" IT suppliers to meet "immediate business needs". Separately, the Guardian has learned that the Australian group IBA Health is close to abandoning talks over a potential all-share takeover of cash-strapped software supplier iSoft, which is contracted to provide systems for 60% of the NHS's troubled National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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Together we stand Public service institutions need to better collaborate with each other and with the citizens they serve to tackle today's big social issues, write Simon Parker and Niamh Gallagher
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G2 columnist Dina Rabinovitch was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2004. Since then the disease has recurred - and spread. As a book based on her experience is published, she reflects on her anger, the drugs and long afternoons in bed
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Jerry Hall is right to say that dyslexia does not have to be a problem, it is a gift. Like Hall and her three children with Mick Jagger, I am dyslexic, as are all my children. It is one of the gifts you pass on. Society treats dyslexia as a problem. There is always this idea that we can "cure" it, with vitamins or pink glasses or special lessons. I did not learn to read until I was 14. It was in the dark ages then. I was asked to leave many schools - they said I had a head like a sieve and any information put into it would fall out, and I was told I could only do jobs where I would not need reading and writing. I went into publishing thinking I could do illustrating because I liked drawing, but everyone said, "You're a storyteller!" I told them about my dyslexia, and they said, "We don't see it as a problem." That, to me, was revolutionary. So I started writing children's books 10 years ago. And, finally, I found what I really loved.
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Scientists have developed the first non-drug therapy for asthma in the biggest advance in treatment of the condition for a decade. Researchers who treated patients with moderate to severe asthma by inserting a probe into their lungs and "burning" the muscle tissue found it cut their asthma attacks by a half.
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Drug-free treatment aids asthma - BBC Health News 29th March 2007
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Drug-free treatment aids asthma - BBC Health News 29th March 2007
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Tony Blair pledged at the Labour Party conference in 1999 that everyone would have access to an NHS dentist. Last week, more than seven years later, the Department of Health slipped out figures showing that 55.7 per cent of adults and 70.5 per cent children had been seen by an NHS dentist in the previous 24 months. Yesterday, a report from the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux revealed that 77 per cent of the 4,000 respondents to their survey said they could not find an NHS dentist prepared to accept them. There is still a very long way to go to meet Tony Blair's pledge.
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Thousands left without access to NHS dentists - The Telegraph 29th March 2007
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Dentists 'forced to take holiday' because of NHS cash crisis - Daily Mail 28th March 2007
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My 'dentists forced to take holidays' - BBC Health News 28th March 2007
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Thousands left without access to NHS dentists - The Telegraph 29th March 2007
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Dentists 'forced to take holiday' because of NHS cash crisis - Daily Mail 28th March 2007
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My 'dentists forced to take holidays' - BBC Health News 28th March 2007
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More than half of working mothers complain that employers do not know how to manage pregnant staff, says an Equal Opportunities Commission report. The two-year survey of more than 2,000 women also found that the majority did not know what their rights were while they were pregnant or when they returned to work after giving birth.
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Britain's offices are full of employees who are in the wrong jobs because their personalities do not suit what they are doing, according to an internet survey. Misfits and anomalies thrown up by the survey include warm, sensitive people working in cold-blooded trades like banking, or strong, assertive types who have found their way into creative work in the arts instead.
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Tony Blair is right not to say we are sorry. It would be hypocritical to say so when his government (and probably the wider public) don't feel truly sorry at all. It would just be words, like the words of regret at the invitation-only church services held over the weekend which continued the practice of social exclusion that mitigates oppression of "the other".
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Muslim GPs fail to respect the confidentiality of Muslim women patients, Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, has claimed. Ms Hewitt, who represents a constituency in Leicester with a large ethnic minority community, said: “I have had Muslim women give me chapter and verse on very distressing breaches of confidentiality by Muslim GPs.
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Muslim women 'cannot trust their GPs' - The Telegraph 29th March 2007
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Hewitt accuses Muslim doctors of betraying women's trust - Daily Mail 28th March 2007
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Health secretary in Muslim GP row - BBC Health News 28th March 2007
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A controversial decision to ban a drug that could prolong the lives of thousands of cancer patients has been overturned. The ruling that Velcade should not be prescribed on the Health Service to bone cancer victims in England caused outrage last year because it is available in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Ever since Napoleon Bonaparte picked a fight with the rest of Europe, there has been a popular belief that little men are more aggressive. But research suggests it is nothing more than a myth.
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Short men 'not more aggressive' - BBC Health News 28th March 2007
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Evidence that organic crops contain higher levels of important nutrients has been published by scientists. They said analysis of organic tomatoes, apples and peaches revealed greater concentrations of vitamin C, polyphenols, betacarotene and flavonoids.
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Poor and late hospital discharge information is putting patients at risk, GPs say. Hospitals are supposed to send doctors information on medicine and treatment as soon as a patient is released, in order to help in their follow-up care.
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Drinking green tea could help in the fight against HIV, research suggests. Scientists found a component called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) prevents HIV from binding to immune system cells by getting there first.
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One of the UK's leading surgeons in treating knife and gunshot injuries says patients are dying unnecessarily because many hospitals are not geared up to deal with such incidents. Surgeon Karim Brohi said many deaths could be prevented if doctors were given better training and resources, and hospitals were better prepared to deal with such major trauma incidents.
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UK scientists believe they have discovered why the spread of "good genes" throughout the population does not make everyone good-looking. If women select the most attractive men, the genes should quickly become commonplace, according to Darwin.
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Ninety patients have been offered booster jabs after it emerged that vaccinations at two GP practices were stored at the wrong temperature. Injections which were given as part of the childhood vaccination programme were among those affected.
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'Unfair' NHS debt rule scrapped - BBC Health News 28th March 2007New Story
NHS managers and doctors have welcomed the decision to scrap the so-called "double whammy" penalty health trusts face when they fall into deficit. The government has announced it is to change the way hospitals are penalised when they fail to balance the books.
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UN calls for mass circumcision of men to tackle Aids epidemics - The Guardian 29th March 2007
UN calls for mass circumcision of men to tackle Aids epidemics - The Guardian 29th March 2007
The United Nations yesterday urged all countries with devastating Aids epidemics to launch mass male circumcision programmes following evidence that the surgical procedure can protect against HIV infection. The World Health Organisation and UNAids, the joint UN programme on HIV/Aids, made the official recommendations after a meeting of experts in Montreux, Switzerland, to consider the evidence from three trials in Africa, which were stopped early when it became clear that men who had been circumcised were up to 60% less likely to get HIV than those who had not.
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Australia's obesity crisis has reached such proportions that health officials have been forced to introduce 'super-sized ambulances', according to reports. Air ambulances are also having to be remodified to cope with the bulge down under, the BBC has reported.
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She's wowing audiences in the US version of Strictly Come Dancing and confounding her critics, but is Heather Mills an inspiration or irritation for other amputees? The spectacle of Heather Mills, amputee, activist and estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney, shaking a (prosthetic) leg on the US television show Dancing with the Stars is shaping up to be the American TV hit of the spring.
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Young girls in Germany are to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. Italian health officials have also recommended 12-year old girls are immunised against human papillomavirus.
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Three people in Indonesia have died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll to 69, health officials say. The virus claimed the lives of a boy aged 15, a 22-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man in separate parts of the country, the health ministry said.
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Kickboxing can cause damage to the part of the brain which controls hormone production, a study has shown. Around a million people around the world take part in the sport.
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Cheshire and Merseyside News
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ADMINISTRATIVE work carried out by a Merseyside hospital trust could be done in the Far East under plans to save money. Southport & Ormskirk NHS Trust has admitted the idea is among the options it is looking at to make cost savings and improve the efficiency of its services.
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A WOMAN today told of a nightmare wait for a hospital bed for her critically ill husband. Deputy head Julian Fisher urgently needs help from specialists at the Royal Liverpool hospital.
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LEIGHTON Hospital in Crewe has been slammed after figures revealed it collected almost £1 million in controversial car park charges in nine months. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust raised £988,000 from April last year to January - and less than half of it was spent on patient care.
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THE ageing inpatients block at Northwich's Victoria Infirmary (VIN) could be replaced by a state of the art community hospital. It would have 10 more beds and will cater for patients with intermediate, rehabilitation and palliative or end of life care needs. It would replace the existing 20-bed unit and provide a range of other medical services still being developed.
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Doctor found guilty of groping patients - Warrington Guardian 28th March 2007
A DOCTOR who worked at Warrington Hospital has been found guilty of groping two young female hospital patients. Dr Shakir Laher, from Blackburn, is now waiting to hear if his professional career is in tatters as a result of the General Medical Council misconduct committee ruling on Monday.
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Cumbria and Lancashire News
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‘Violent patient’ list for ambulance staff - Carlisle News & Star 28th March 2007
AMBULANCE chiefs have drawn up a blacklist of potentially violent patients across Cumbria as part of their efforts to protect staff. The system means that control room staff within the North West Ambulance Service, including those working in Carlisle, will automatically request a police escort for staff attending addresses where problem patients live.
Infirmary is to lease 26 beds in private complex - Carlisle News & Star 28th March 2007
A PRIVATELY-built health complex at the entrance to the Cumberland Infirmary will provide 26 additional beds for NHS patients. Bosses at the Carlisle hospital have agreed to lease the two-storey building over a three-year period.
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Plans for £3m dental academy submitted - Carlisle News & Star 28th March 2007
AMBITIOUS plans to establish a £3m dental academy at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary have taken a significant step forward. Hospital bosses have now submitted a formal planning application to the city council and hope to start tendering for contractors next month.
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Grope doctor guilty - Lancashire Telegraph 28th March 2007
A DOCTOR from Blackburn has been found guilty by a General Medical Council of groping two young female hospital patients. Dr Shakir Laher, of Pringle Street, is now waiting to hear if his professional career is in tatters as a result of the misconduct committee ruling.
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Anger at private operations plan - Lancashire Telegraph 28th March 2007
A COUNCIL leader has slammed health bosses for approving plans to have thousands of operations done by a private company. Burnley Council leader Gordon Birtwistle said he was unhappy at the move which came at the same time as the town's general hospital was losing its ability to handle blue light emergencies to the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
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Forget Napoleon, taller men have the shorter fuse - Daily Mail 28th March 2007
Ever since Napoleon Bonaparte picked a fight with the rest of Europe, there has been a popular belief that little men are more aggressive. But research suggests it is nothing more than a myth.
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Short men 'not more aggressive' - BBC Health News 29th March 2007
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