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LONDON - The NHS is sponsoring the 'Celebrity Quitters' series on Five, which follows five celebrities as they try various methods to try to quit smoking. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
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Innovating is an evolutionary process with trials and errors - bit it is vital in financially hard times, says Becky Malby
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When the Government published its alcohol strategy in 2004, it concluded that drink was a problem for a small minority in Britain. The repeated warnings from health professionals, the statistics on alcohol-related ill health and hospital treatment, and
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GPs, community healthcare professionals and social workers will be encouraged to visit proactively and support vulnerable elderly patients at home, as part of major reforms to health and social care.
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SEVEN thousand women are wrongly told they have breast cancer every year by the NHS screening programme, experts said last night.
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Let the jobs come to you! BRISTOL, England, January 18 /PRNewswire/ -- New research published in the British Journal of Urology proposes improvements to the NHS-recommended treatment for stress incontinence (SUI). This is welcome news for millions of
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Operations delayed as vital supplies fail to get through at Port-au-Prince airport
International aid agencies have warned that Haitians are dying needlessly amid "utter chaos" in the organisation of relief efforts after last week's devastating earthquake. Some have called for the US to take d[...]
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In 2010, it is unbelievable that rape charges might have been dropped because the alleged victim shared fantasies onlineWatch out. If you have ever had fantasies about group sex and shared them with another person, you have forfeited your right to say no to sex and can be lawfully raped. This seems [...]
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• Aerobic exercise triggers new cell growth – study
• Region of brain affected linked to recollectionThe health benefits of a regular run have long been known, but scientists have never understood the curious ability of exercise to boost brain power.Now researchers think they have the ans[...]
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Leaked report says social services ignored warnings from friends and neighbours about the troublesome youngstersSocial services in Doncaster missed more than 30 opportunities to intervene in the lives of two young brothers who went on to beat, torture and sexually assault a pair of boys last year, a[...]
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Vouchers in schools, closing careers advice service and cadet programme reform among plans to be rejected or shelvedThe government rejected or shelved key aspects of Alan Milburn's report into social mobility today. Among the plans abandoned by ministers are proposals for parental vouchers in failin[...]
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Nordics look roughly the same as British people and they are social cohesive because of their aversion to immigration, says mayor of LondonBoris Johnson was today accused of peddling "anti-immigration rhetoric" after he said the British are similar to Scandinavians in that they "roughly look the sam[...]
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Although the increase in section 31 applications can be attributed to the Baby Peter effect,...
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Prescriptions record sensitive personal health data and community pharmacies recognise their duty to handle personal information securely. This was reflected in the Contractual Framework introduced in 2005, but new provisions have been introduced that
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...supervision of the placement and no clear plan for the boys' management. The brothers' family had been known to social services for 14 years, before the boys were born. Their father was violent and their mother could not cope with her seven...
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One of the main UK regulators is commissioning research to analyse the potential risks and benefits around regulation of health care support workers (HCSWs), also known as healthcare assistants. The (NMC), the statutory regulatory body for the UK’s
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Kay Gilderdale's daughter, Lynn, had tried but failed to kill herself because of chronic disease ME, court hearsA "devoted mother" who discovered her desperately ill daughter in the midst of a suicide attempt spent 28 hours administering a cocktail of lethal drugs to her after failing to convince he[...]
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...centred around Doncaster where seven children known to social services have died since 2004, highlighted 12 lessons...be named for legal reasons, were known to police and social services before the attack on April 4 last year...
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Although the increase in section 31 applications can be attributed to the 'Baby Peter effect',...
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New body to be set up to smash 'closed shop' mentalityTop professions will be told to open their doors to people from poorer backgrounds today, as Gordon Brown steps up his efforts to portray Labour as the party of aspiration.A new body is to be set up in an attempt to smash a "closed shop" mentalit[...]
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The pre-election campaigning raged on today, with Gordon Brown setting out new plans to encourage social mobility while David Cameron promised Conservatives would boost schools by restoring the prestige of the teaching profession.
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Some 50 homeless people fled a Battersea office block being used as temporary shelter yesterday after fire broke out. The office, in Battersea Park Road, was turned into temporary housing accommodation during the cold snap by the charity St Mungo’s. A
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Alexander Holmes: Simon Jenkins may scoff about swine flu estimates, but HIV/Aids has taught us not to wait to see how deep a pile of bodies gets
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IPSWICH: It may have been one of the coldest winters for decades with people still sleeping on the streets of Ipswich, but there are still empty beds in the town for the homeless. Two houses in London Road which were converted into accommodation for