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20 hours ago
... and donations to a variety of projects and initiatives, primarily in the areas of healthcare, education, social services and arts and culture. ...
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8 hours ago
Services to be offered include health and dental screenings, VA benefit assistance and information, housing referrals, social service and financial ...
Bristol Press via Google News 8 hours ago
... age should take precautions regarding exposure to West Nile Virus," said Anne Fountain, MPH, Stamford's interim director of Health and Social Services. ...
Stamford News via Google News 9 hours ago
It is anticipated traffic will increase once the social services building opens for business around the end of the month. The installation of the four-way ...
Corning Observer via Google News 10 hours ago
Main Category: Pharmacy / Pharmacist A new study suggests that patients can play an important part in reducing medicines wastage by ensuring unused medicines are removed from their repeat prescriptions. Unwanted medicines returned to community pharmacies
MediLexicon via Moreover.com News 10 hours ago
The BMA has welcomed plans to set the minimum price per unit of alcohol in Scotland at 45 pence. Commenting on the proposed price announced by the Cabinet Secretary this morning, Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said that so far, no
Medical News Today via Moreover.com News 10 hours ago
A member of the influential Public Accounts Committee is demanding an investigation into the £546m contract awarded to BT last year as part of the troubled National Programme for IT (NpfIT). The central allegation is that the supplier has ended up with
PublicTechnology.net via Moreover.com News 10 hours ago
Any system of value-based pricing for drugs in the UK will need to consider both short- and long-term economic efficiency and appropriately sustain and reward innovation, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries says in response to the
FDA News via Moreover.com News 11 hours ago
Any system of value-based pricing for drugs in the UK will need to consider both short- and long-term economic efficiency and appropriately sustain and reward innovation, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries says in response to the
FDA News via Moreover.com News 11 hours ago
SKINT health board chiefs were blasted last night for splashing out
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12 hours ago
Asian doctors are being asked to share their experiences of the NHS for a book celebrating their contribution to it. The BMA equality and diversity committee is helping with the project, which is being led by race-equality think tank the Runnymede Trust
British Medical Association via Moreover.com News 12 hours ago
Fiona Phillips had a high-profile job as a presenter on GMTV and two small children when her mother – and then her father – developed Alzheimer's disease. By Emine SanerIt is only when you look back, says Fiona Phillips, that you see there were signs. Her mother, Amy, was diagnosed with early on[...]
12 hours ago
18th-century Bethlem – chains, belts, purges, bleeding and thousands of visitors gawping at the inmates. Nell Leyshon on the asylum that inspired her latest playMy new play, Bedlam, about to open at the Globe, is set in a fictionalised Bethlem, in the mid-18th century, a time when psychiatry had y[...]
12 hours ago
'I soon learned never to express hunger around them and to eat in secret, thereby developing an inextricable emotional link between what I ate and my ability to be loved'In my head I am thin. I just haven't quite got there yet. As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, t[...]
12 hours ago
Raising the price of alcohol will reduce binge drinking – just look at ScandinaviaIs booze too cheap? Scotland's health minister this week bravely proposed a minimum unit price, which would force supermarkets to raise prices markedly. A bottle of Asda vodka would rise from £7.97 to £11.81, while[...]
16 hours ago
The horrible thing about China's 62-mile nine-day jam was that it destroyed the certainty that travel will inevitably result in arrivalHold on to your hats – or rather, don't bother, as we shan't exactly be proceeding at a great lick, and could in fact be here for aeons – because the Chinese tra[...]
16 hours ago
The Department of Health (DoH) has defended its plans to change how the NHS is held to account, after union leaders launched a legal challenge. Unison, the union which represents most of the UKs health workers, pledged to oppose the Health White Paper,
Localgov.co.uk via Moreover.com News 17 hours ago
Again. Longstanding Spectator Readers may be forgiven for groaning that they have heard all this before. Not for a long time they haven't, and when I last wrote about this it was well before the Online Days. Still, feel free to skip if you are bored with
Spectator via Moreover.com News 17 hours ago
Giving GPs responsibility for commissioning alongside service provision is crucial for better integration of health services and thus overall outcomes, a report by The Nuffield Trust has concluded. According to the Trust, experience on the international
Pharma Times via Moreover.com News 17 hours ago
A saving of 1% to 1.5% of the cost of healthcare would justify the cost of fibre to the premises throughout the UK, says the International Telecommunications Union. Speaking to the Westminster Media Forum on Thursday, ITU secretary general Hamadoun
Computer Weekly via Moreover.com News 17 hours ago
Widespread public confusion remains over how the adult care system works, two years after councils in England were set personalisation targets to improve information and advice for citizens, research has found.
18 hours ago
Three suspected sex traffickers arrested as police free 15 women in major crackdown on Belfast brothelsFifteen women have been rescued from sex traffickers in a major crackdown on brothels in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.The women, who are from EU countries, were being forced to work as [...]
19 hours ago
A retired academic from Suffolk who specialised in child care has admitted a string of child pornography charges.Former college lecturer Kevin Pettican, 64, of Saxmundham, admitted making and possessing indecent images of children.A judge at Ipswich
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19 hours ago
Three sex trafficking suspects arrested after PSNI rescues 15 women from EU countries in crackdown on 'modern-day slavery'Fifteen women have been rescued from sex traffickers in a crackdown in brothels in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.The women, who are from EU countries, were being force[...]
19 hours ago
Bosses at Milton Keynes Hospital, Bucks, have come up with the 'Clean Hands Rap' to help doctors and nurses learn proper hand washing technique. The song - which includes the lyrics ''Now to clean between your fingers, Just in case the bad bug lingers''
Daily Telegraph via Moreover.com News 19 hours ago
30AM BST. A headteacher who was run over twice in his school?s car park was back at work today after fighting back to health over summer. Austin Cheminais was airlifted to hospital following the accident outside Rushall JMI. He said doctors thought he
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23 weeks ago
From the NYT:The Bloomberg administration said Friday that the number of people living on New York’s streets and subways soared 34 percent in a year, signaling a setback in one of the city’s most intractable problems.
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after [...]
Appearing both startled and dismayed by the sharp increase, a year after [...]
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26 weeks ago
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports on state-level budget cuts:Cuts Affect Wide Range of ServicesStates began cutting their budgets last spring, as the recession brought sharply weakened revenues. The cuts have intensified as the economy has worsened. Even as the need for state-funded[...]
30 weeks ago
From Feeding America: they help supply food banks (warehouses stocked with food) which, in turn, deliver it to local soup kitchens (where you eat on site) or food pantries (where you can get bags of groceries to take home, if you have a home):
A landmark study released today from Feeding Americ[...]
A landmark study released today from Feeding Americ[...]
31 weeks ago
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32 weeks ago
From the Center for American Progress:The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. shifted his focus in the dwindling years of his life to an audacious, but achievable goal: ending poverty in the United States.In his book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, King argued that the United States must cha[...]
33 weeks ago
Via Reuters:The latest budget plan from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would force 200,000 children off low-cost medical insurance, end in-home care for 350,000 infirm and elderly citizens and slash income assistance to hundreds of thousands more.And that's the best-case scenario under Sc[...]
