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Gordon Brown accused of bowing to unions by freezing private companies out of NHS
Brussels :: Belgium | about 15 hours ago
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Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown is facing a damaging rift with his party after slowing the pace of reform in the NHS, The Times has learnt. Private companies and charities are being frozen out of the NHS, prompting accusations...
Tags: NHS Sam Coates, NHS Confederation, Mr Burnham, privately companies, Labour, Department of Health, health secretary, CBI, Gordon Brown, Belgium, Brussels, NHS primary care trust, Acevo, NHS Scotland, National Health Service, Andrew Burnham, Politics
Andy Burnham told charities at risk in policy shift
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Leading health experts round on the health secretary Andy Burnham today, warning him off reversing a Labour programme of modernisation and competition within the health service. Burnham surprised cabinet ministers and policy officials alike when he announced...
Tags: Andy Burnham, NHS, 2005 Labour, health secretary, voluntary sectors, chief executive, United Kingdom, London, Department of Health, Acevo, Voluntary sector, NHS Partners Network, Politics, National Health Service, Andrew Burnham, NHS primary care trust
Health units go high tech to keep swelling flu lines as short as possible
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Public health units all over Ontario have put on their creative thinking caps and come up with some very high tech, innovative ways to try to shorten lineups for the H1N1 vaccine...That information was badly needed Wednesday when, just hours after the...
Tags: swine flu, h1n1 flu, Alberta, children aged, flu vaccination, Ontario, healthy children, death toll, Department of Health, health secretary, United Kingdom, London, Health in the United States, Influenza vaccine, flu pandemic in the United Kingdom, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, flu pandemic, Pandemics, Animal virology, Vaccines, Health Medical Pharma, Clinic, Influenza, Social Issues, Influenza pandemics, Vaccination schedule, Prevention, Swine influenza, MedImmune, Influenza A virus, flu pandemic in Asia
20% of Metro heart attacks due to passive smoke
Manila :: Philippines | 29 days ago
Credibility Philippines�Second-hand smoke causes over 20 percent of the number of heart attacks in Metro Manila, officials from the Department of Health (DoH) said on Monday. One to seven hours of weekly exposure to second-hand smoke increases the number of heart...
Tags: Francisco Duque III, heart attacks, secretary francisco, health secretary, Philippines, World Health Organization, Department of Health
Daily Express, UK: NHS pledge to end ageism
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility NHS will be banished, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has vowed. He has pledged to put a stop to attitudes that leave elderly patients treated as second-class citizens. His announcement comes in the wake of growing evidence the elderly are far less likely...
Tags: health secretary, Andy Burnham, Health, NHS, secretary andy, age discrimination, social care
GP catchment areas to be ended
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Ministers want to introduce more choice into the family doctor system, believing it will drive up standards. The move has been on the cards for some time and is part of the government's long-running drive to improve access. Doctors' leaders said they...
Tags: Andy Burnham, health secretary, NHS, Burnham Financial, Mr Burnham, burnham willing, catchment area, patients willing, secretary andy, practice boundaries, United Kingdom, London
Swine flu death toll forecast slashed
Leicester :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility The official estimate of the number of Britons who could die this winter from swine flu is to be reduced substantially to roughly 20,000 because health experts have decided the virus is far less lethal than first feared. Ministers and health officials...
Tags: swine flu, flu deaths, health secretary, worst cases, Nicola Sturgeon, deaths toll, secretary nicola
Scottish swine flu patient no longer critical
New Delhi :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility However, the condition of the 22-year-old Swedish swine flu patient who is being treated in the same ward remains critical. At the same time, several hospital departments in Stockholm with newborns have implemented visiting restrictions due to the swine...
Tags: swine flu, test positive, Pune Municipal Corporation, health secretary, Naresh Dayal, Across India, flu patient, seven months, secretary naresh
Swine flu service was 'too late'
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility A Parliamentary committee is expected to criticise the government for being slow to set up a swine flu helpline. The service for England was launched on Thursday but a House of Lords report is to attack ministers for not following their own timetable...
Tags: flu helpline, NHS, health secretary, National Health Service, Department of Health, Tamiflu, England, pandemics flu, secretary andy
Pregnant woman with swine flu ‘gravely ill’
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
Credibility A pregnant woman is gravely ill in a Scottish hospital after receiving a diagnosis of swine flu. She was admitted after visiting the maternity unit at Crosshouse Hospital, in Kilmarnock, saying that she felt unwell. Tests confirmed that she was suffering...
Tags: swine flu, pregnant women, health secretary, Andy Burnham, reassure pregnant
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