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Smoking ban: one year on - Carlisle News & Star 1st July 2008
A YEAR ago today, smokers across England stubbed out their last cigarette inside bars, clubs and bingo halls. It is estimated that the smoking ban has helped to stop more than 400,000 people smoking since it came into play 12 months ago.
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'I was an alcoholic ... now I can almost pick and choose jobs I go for' - Carlisle News & Star 1st July 2008
Waking up one day shaking with withdrawal symptoms, Lee Phillipson finally realised things had gone too far. He had been drinking solidly for nearly four years and it had taken over his life. Admitting that to himself was the first difficult step, but it was the support he then received that has really helped to turn his life around.
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Special members meetings on anniversary of the NHS - Carlisle News & Star 30th June 2008
HISTORY will be made in Cumbria on the 60th anniversary of the NHS. This turning point will place the local community at the heart of decision making about the future provision of services. The first special members meeting will take place on Friday July 4, at the Castle Green Hotel, in Kendal, from 10.30am.
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The birth of free healthcare for all - Carlisle News & Star 30th June 2008
The health of the nation was very different 60 years ago. Many people died from preventable illnesses because they couldn’t afford to go to a doctor, or put off doing so until it was too late.
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NHS in need of an overhaul - Carlisle News & Star 30th June 2008
After 60 years, the National Health Service is due an overhaul. There comes a time in every long life when make do and mend progression is no longer appropriate. So, it’s heartening to learn that Health minister Lord Darzi is planning to breathe new life into the next 10 years of England's NHS, following a year-long consultation with patients and staff.
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A degree we can all get our teeth - Carlisle News & Star 27th June 2008
A WEST Cumbrian is among eight students preparing to step in to help meet the area’s need for more dentists.
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Insight into Bevan's NHS launch - Manchester Evening News 2nd July 2008
AS the world waited for Aneurin Bevan to launch the first national health service one young girl had a unique insight into his preparations that she has never forgotten. June Rosen was just eight years old when the health minister stayed at her parents' house the night before he announced the start of the NHS at Park Hospital, now Trafford General.
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Editorial: A promising prescription - The Guardian 1st July 2008
At first blush the insistence of the surgeon turned minister, Professor Lord Ara Darzi, that the NHS should have "quality of care at its heart" seems a statement of the blindingly obvious. After all, every decent medic aims at caring well. But the emphasis on quality running through the report Lord Darzi published yesterday was in fact distinctive and important. More important, indeed, than the draft NHS constitution, also published yesterday, which - despite the grand title - is principally a tidying up exercise. For, during a turbulent decade in the service, the overriding concern in Whitehall has been quantity instead.
Polly Toynbee: For all the hyperbole, Bevan would have approved of this - The Guardian 1st July 2008
NHS review to push for more nurse-led care - The Guardian 27th June 2008
Leading article: The right medicine, but far too mild a dose - The Independent 1st July 2008
Nurses' clinics to compete with GPs' surgeries - The Independent 27th June 2008
Analysis: a classier NHS, but choice still an illusion - The Times 1st July 2008
NHS review: hospitals that provide poor care to be fined - The Times 1st July 2008
Key points of the draft NHS Constitution - The Times 1st July 2008
An exercise in flawed logic at the NHS - The Times 30th June 2008
Letters to The Telegraph - The Telegraph 1st July 2008
Politicians must heed the voters over NHS reform - The Telegraph 30th June 2008
Darzi NHS review: Sick and elderly to get right to die at home - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
NHS: The nation fears for its future - The Sunday Telegraph 29th June 2008
NHS hospital death rates to be published under Lord Darzi plans - The Telegraph 27th June 2008
Quality ranking key to NHS funds - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
NHS overhaul plans to be laid out - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
Drug approval for NHS to speed up - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
NHS hospital death rates to be published under Lord Darzi plans - The Telegraph 27th June 2008
Quality ranking key to NHS funds - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
NHS overhaul plans to be laid out - BBC Health News 30th June 2008
Drug approval for NHS to speed up - BBC Health News 29th June 2008
Libby Brooks: The truth is some smokers are more equal than others - The Guardian 1st July 2008
A year after the ban, advocates for free puffing make a powerful case. But they fail to recognise choice is about class, too Last week, friends and supporters of the smokers' lobby group Forest raised a doleful cigarette to the first anniversary of the smoking ban in England. On the terrace of a smart private members' club in London's Belgravia, the redoubtable David Hockney - a regular contributor to the letters page of this newspaper on the subject - bemoaned for the umpteenth time the Labour government's curtailment of his liberties, fag in hand.
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Nursing homes: Southern Cross in emergency talks over £46m loan deadline - The Guardian 1st July 2008
Southern Cross Healthcare, Britain's largest operator of care homes for the elderly, has been forced into emergency talks with its banks after yesterday failing to meet a £46m loan repayment deadline, busting through a significant debt covenant. The heavily indebted group has been unable to sell a number of property assets to repay costly bridging loans used to fund a rush of care home purchases in recent months.
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Diet: Women warned that junk food in pregnancy may hit child's health - The Guardian 1st July 2008
Mothers who eat a junk-food diet in pregnancy may seriously damage the long-term health of their child, according to research published today. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was carried out on rats, but scientists say they have every reason to believe that human babies may suffer as much harm as the offspring of rodents from exposure in the womb to high levels of fats, sugar and salt.
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Junk food mothers could condemn unborn children to a life of ill health - Daily Mail 1st July 2008
Mother's junk food 'harms child' - BBC Health News 1st July 2008
Iraq: Vaccinations did not cause Gulf war illness, says study - The Guardian 1st July 2008
Soldiers sent to Iraq were not made ill by the multiple vaccinations some received before their deployment, according to a study published today. Being given too many jabs at once has been suggested as a possible cause of Gulf war syndrome and the illness some military personnel have reported after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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World Health Organisation: New rapid tests for multi-drug resistant TB - The Guardian 1st July 2008
A drive backed by substantial funds to tackle the tide of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation yesterday. Diagnostic tests which take two days instead of three months will be introduced in developing countries where drug resistance is rapidly increasing. Funding will also be made available for antibiotics - currently much more expensive than the basic TB treatment - needed by people who have multi-drug resistant disease.
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Higher education: Conviction rules A-grade student out of medical course - The Guardian 1st July 2008
An A-grade student from one of the poorest areas in the country has had an offer of a place on a prestigious medical course withdrawn after admissions officers ruled that a spent criminal conviction meant he could not be trusted to become a doctor. Majid Ahmed, 18, from Little Horton in Bradford, lost an appeal against the decision by Imperial College London to bar him from its medicine degree, a move that youth justice charities labelled discriminatory and MPs called unfair.
Medical ethics? - The Guardian 1st July 2008
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