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Some governments, including the UK, share health data – so why can't they all do it? Sitting round a table in Lisbon recently, I listened to researchers from the local university explaining how they planned to instruct interviewers to select a sample of addresses for the Portuguese component of the...
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Read the advice of our expert panel on how local authorities can prepare for taking on responsbility for public health next month. Share your ideas in the comments thread Edward Davie is a Lambeth councillor and chair of the borough's health scrutiny committee What can be done to prepare? Councils...
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Join our expert panel to find out how local authorities are preparing to take responsibility for public health next month. Debate the issues live from 12pm on Wednesday 13 March After months of groundwork changes to the way public health is administered in Britain are just around the corner. From April...
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The government and health workforce have welcomed the findings, but almost three years on there is still much work to do It's nearly three years since we published the report of the Marmot review, Fair society; healthy lives , which set out the evidence demonstrating relationships between health...
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As the healthcare sector gears up for April, the national director of health and wellbeing board implementation explains how he envisages the boards working Amid the noise and debate surrounding the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act, one of its key elements, the creation of health and...
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With many opportunities in the sector, here's our roundup of some of the best appearing this new year 10: The Heart Foundation which is after a project officer Keen to share best practice? The London-based charity is after someone with good knowledge of current changes taking place in health policy...
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The American producer Samuel Goldwyn once quipped, “The hospital is no place to be sick.” In the decades since, his words are still relevant as a tragic irony: more than 200,000 people die each year in hospitals from preventable causes such as hospital-acquired infections, gross misdiagnoses, and medication...
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Much of what we write about at Medgadget deals with advances in diagnostic and preventive medicine, such as the smart bra that may help detect breast cancer and the contact-less camera thermometer . We are optimistic that as technology develops many of these diagnostic tests will experience a reduction...
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There are signs local authorities will forge closer relationships with CCGs than they might have done with primary care trusts During this time of transition as public health moves into local government and GPs into clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), both sides are bound to bring some historical challenges...
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Community pharmacies play a big role in treating alcohol misuse, but their valuable services are under threat of being decommissioned permanently It's Alcohol Awareness Week ( 19-25 November ), so there is no better time to discuss the role that services play in identifying and treating people with...
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New research shows nine in 10 men don't like to trouble a doctor or a pharmacist. But there are some innovative projects across the UK which are looking at tackling this The Department of Health's study into gender and access to health services (2008) shows that men tend to leave their wellbeing...
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The only way to improve the quality of all patient meals in England is to require them to meet mandatory sustainability standards NHS hospitals in England buy a lot of food, enough for 300 million patient meals a year. Much of it is poor quality and unpopular with those who are asked to eat it. Most...
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Their new position dangles precariously between central and local government – yet despite this there is palpable optimism It is becoming increasingly clear that public health directors will need to exercise fine political judgment if they are to thrive in their new position dangling precariously between...
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Next April local authorities take charge of public health, but what partnerships will need to be established? Saba Salman reports on the third in a series of debates on the changeover With less than six months to go before councils adopt responsibility for public health from the NHS in April 2013, much...
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Mike Holden describes the best and worst parts of his job – and why clinical commissioning groups must include pharmacists Describe your role in one sentence I manage a team that leads, supports, protects, represents and cares for more than 12,000 community pharmacies across the UK. Why did you want...
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