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A £12.4bn programme to modernise IT systems throughout the NHS in England is running years behind schedule and failing to prove it is value for money, a committee of MPs said today. The Commons public accounts committee delivered the most damning assessment to date of the health service's national programme for IT and Edward Leigh, its Conservative chairman, called last night for urgent remedial action to protect the interests of taxpayers.
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NHS computer upgrade ‘failing’ - The Times 17th April 2007
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NHS computer upgrade ‘failing’ - The Times 17th April 2007
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Official summary of conclusions - The Telegraph 17th April 2007
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'Action needed' on NHS computers - BBC Health News 16th April 2007
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'Action needed' on NHS computers - BBC Health News 16th April 2007
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Terrified student nurses are being left in sole charge of NHS patients within a few weeks of starting their medical training, the Royal College of Nursing warned yesterday at the start of its annual conference in Harrogate. The students feared they might put patients' lives at risk because they were not qualified to cope in an emergency, but they did not dare complain in case they lost marks for being branded as troublemakers.
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Student nurses left unsupervised in charge of wards - The Times 17th April 2007
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Patients 'at risk as student nurses left alone' - The Telegraph 17th April 2007
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Patients lives at risk as 8 out of 10 student nurses are left unsupervised - Daily Mail 16th April 2007
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The most vulnerable newborn babies are being cared for by a service that is so acutely understaffed that less than 4% receive the level of care the government admits they require. A survey of all 224 neonatal units in the UK reveals that on average they are understaffed by a third. An extra 2,500 neonatal nurses are needed to meet the levels of care set by the British Association of Perinatal Medicine, and endorsed by the Department of Health.
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Staffing levels 'put gravely ill and premature babies at risk' - The Times 17th April 2007
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Premature babies 'in peril from staff shortage' - The Telegraph 17th April 2007
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Staff warning on baby care units - BBC Health News 16th April 2007
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The law lecturer tells Chris Arnot how being a transsexual has put him at the forefront of a political movement
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Market societies get rich quicker. But they create extra casualties in the process, some of them the kind of people squeezed out of stabilising low-skilled jobs by the demands of efficiency. When MPs debated the growing pressures on mental health services last night they were discussing casualties as surely as if they were debating Iraq.
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In the final extract from his new book on courage, chancellor Gordon Brown looks at how Cicely Saunders, who began the hospice movement, found a way to give dignity to the dying
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Step off the streets of Soho, down a flight of stairs where the warm, glowing walls whisper sweet nothings to you and enter Amora, London's first permanent sex exhibition. Pay your £12 (£15 in the evening) and learn about the mechanics of the perfect kiss, the biology of an orgasm, and how hard to spank so it hurts.
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Sometimes you look at a news story and think: “Now why didn’t we see that coming?” Every clue was there, every trend and current flowed towards it. When the thing happens, you look back and see that it was obvious.
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Unexpected outbreak of morality - The Telegraph 17th April 2007
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More young doctors oppose abortions on ethical grounds - Daily Mail 16th April 2007
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More young doctors oppose abortions on ethical grounds - Daily Mail 16th April 2007
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The controversial system for training doctors is to be the subject of another review, Patricia Hewitt announced yesterday. The Health Secretary has asked Sir John Tooke, Dean of the Peninsula Medical School, to head the new review into the training system thrown into chaos by the failure of the computer system for matching applicants to training places. In the Commons, Ms Hewitt repeated her apology to junior doctors for what had gone wrong. She said: “This has been a time of great distress for junior doctors and their families and I apologise unreservedly to them for the anxiety that has been caused.”
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In October last year Hannah Mayne walked into the local branch of NatWest Bank and asked for an overdraft of £50. Although she was an unemployed teenager whose only income was from benefits, the man behind the counter said that would be no problem. In fact, she could have £1,200 if she wanted. Ten minutes later Hannah walked out with £850 in cash in her pocket and the facility to access £350 more. Three weeks after that she took a heroin overdose. She had spent every penny of NatWest’s money on drugs.
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Carrots help us to see in the dark. Our grandmothers have been telling us so for centuries. More contemporary dietary advice about eye health is that eating spinach and spring greens between two and four times a week may lower the risk of age-related blindness and developing cataracts, and that eating fish may relieve dry, gritty eyes.
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If you drool with envy as a skinny friend digs into chips and chocolate and never gains a pound, it could be as unfair as it seems: they may have a gene which allows them to eat fat and not gain weight, according to research published in the Journal of Molecular Medicine.
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NOT a fan of those newfangled computers? Well, you’re not alone. A planned move away from paper-based to electronic social care records is being hampered by “reluctant” frontline staff, reports Community Care (April 12).
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Thomas Stuttaford (“Dangerous deliveries”, times2, April 13 ) continues the myth that home births are unduly risky. This belief is based on outdated evidence where the outcomes for all out-of-hospital births — including unplanned home births, premature babies born suddenly, or labours after no antenatal care and often with no midwife present — were amalgamated.
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Thousands of patients risk catching MRSA and other deadly superbugs because NHS hospitals are overcrowded, according to a survey today. Figures produced by the Royal College of Nursing suggest that in the vast majority of wards the proportion of beds occupied at any one time is substantially higher than Government estimates.
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Our recent Lifeclass on internet bullying sparked a huge response from readers ... including the victim of online abuse from her own sister, says Lesley Garner
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Diabetics in the UK have the worst blood sugar control in Europe and fail to understand the impact on their health, a survey reveals. The research into Type 2 sufferers found most are unaware they had poor control while many regarded their condition as the "mild" form of diabetes.
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Told at the age of 24 that she had cancer, Claire Burrell was desperate not to let it destroy her chances of motherhood. The aggressive treatment that she needed would leave her infertile – and put her body into an early menopause.
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Freya, nine, is set to be one of the first girls in Britain to have a cervical cancer jab. Her mother says it could save her life. Her father fears it’s a green light for under-age sex. So who’s right? Mercifully Freya Dean has the attention span of a typical nine-year-old. She starts off following every step of the argument raging around the kitchen table, her little head moving — tennis spectator-style — from her mother to her father and back again.
There is at least one of them in every workplace, disrupting harmony and belittling colleagues. They send insulting e-mails to rivals while simultaneously buttering up those in positions of power.
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Royal College of Nursing leaders are taking soundings over whether to ballot members on what would be the first ever national action over pay. Ministers have offered nurses a 1.5% pay rise this month with another 1% to come in November.
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The government is assessing the impact of a new generation of drugs that are claimed to make people more intelligent. The Department of Health has asked the Academy of Medical Sciences to assess these so-called "cognition enhancing" drugs, some of which are already being widely used in the US.
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The government has announced there is to be a long-term review of the heavily criticised system used to appoint trainee doctors. There has already been a review of this year's application and interview procedures.
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The NHS is having the "life squeezed out of it" by cuts imposed because of deficits, says the UK's nurse leader. Dr Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, congratulated ministers for tripling the health budget since 1997.
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When it comes to tongues, melting chocolate is better than a passionate kiss, scientists have found. Couples in their 20s had their heart rates and brains monitored whilst they first melted chocolate in their mouths and then kissed.
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Scots children 'have worst teeth' - BBC Health News 15th April 2007
Children in Scotland have the worst dental health in the UK, a study has found. The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry said almost half of all five-year-olds had decayed, filled or missing teeth.
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Eating a traditional English breakfast doubles the risk of developing chronic lung disease, doctors have warned. Research shows that those who regularly tuck into sausages and bacon are twice as likely to suffer from debilitating chest conditions more traditionally associated with smoking.
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A regular dose of aspirin could keep cancer at bay and boosts survival rates for those who contract the disease, new research has revealed. A new study suggests that those who take the cheap and popular painkiller are 16 per cent less likely to develop cancer that those who do not.
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The smoking ban in Ireland has cut air pollution in pubs and improved bar-workers' health, a study has found. Researchers said the ban, which came in at the end of March 2004, had led to an 83% reduction in air pollution and an 80% cut in cancer-causing agents.
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OBESITY is killing 1,000 people a year in Liverpool, a new report has revealed. And the cost to the local economy in extra health services and lost work days has been estimated at £23m.
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Wife thanks ECHO as man gets vital care - Liverpool Echo 16th April 2007
A CRITICALLY-ILL man who faced an agonising wait for a hospital bed had his wish granted after the ECHO stepped in. Deputy headteacher Julian Fisher, 54, was struck down by severe acute pancreatitis last month at his home in Meols, Wirral.
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A HEALTH programme designed to curb obesity levels in Burnley and Pendle has been slimmed down before it has even got off the ground. The East Lancashire boroughs are each involved in a £10 million north west bid called Target: Wellbeing, whose aims include getting more people out of their armchairs and into exercise.
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Healthy eating advice dished up - Lancashire Telegraph 16th April 2007
HELPING children eat nutritious food was the focus at the healthy eating stall at Accrington market. Staff from East Lancashire Primary Care Trust talked to shoppers to get them to consider healthy meals.
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AN INVESTIGATION into waiting times for surgery at the Royal Bolton Hospital has been carried out after a patient was forced to wait a year for an operation. Health bosses launched the inquiry into how four patients waiting for surgery were not treated within the Government target of 26 weeks, some waiting longer.
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HEALTH bosses in Bolton have announced plans to improve the way people are cared for as their lives come to an end. The borough is one of the first places in the country to produce plans to improve end-of-life care for people with chronic conditions, such as heart disease, lung disease and dementia.
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A FORMER haemophiliac will take to the stand on Wednesday as part of a formal inquiry into why thousands of people given blood in the 1970s and 1980s were infected with hepatitis C or HIV. David Fielding was given the tainted blood products in NHS transfusions and contracted hepatitis C, which destroyed his liver and led to a transplant.
DOZENS of people are waiting for back pay at the Royal Bolton Hospital. Since a new pay scheme - Agenda for Change - was introduced nationally across the health service in 2004 many staff have seen their salaries increase as they are financially rewarded for the roles they carry out in the hospital.
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IT is commonly thought that Parkinson's Disease only strikes the elderly - yet it can affect young people too. Each year one in 20 people diagnosed with the disease will be under the age of 40.
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DENTISTS are right to ask the Government to pump more cash into dental services in the town. The call comes after it was discovered that dental services in Bolton were short-changed by £650,000 due to the Department of Health's under-estimation of the number of people in the town claiming free treatment.
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Dentists claim £650,000 shortfall in NHS funding - The Bolton News 16th April 2007
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