Back in May, they came up with some Big Scary Numbers, claiming that 200,000 NHS admissions a year were alchol-related.Hmm. Not scary enough, obviously. So they've now revised that up to 800,000 admissions a year.But despite this, they admit that only "£2billion of NHS money is spent every year treating patients with alcohol-related diseases", which is no higher than the guesstimate in my previous...
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Mark Wadsworth on 22nd Jul 2008 (via markwadsworth.blogspot.com)
Patients who do not want their medical records to be placed on a national electronic database are being coerced by NHS managers to give their consent, the British Medical Association said last night. During trials of the scheme in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent, thousands of patients are being told they cannot opt out unless they make an appointment with "NHS advisers" to explain face to face why t...
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Guardian on 11th Mar 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The rule banning patients from paying for medicines while continuing to access other NHS services could be scrapped.
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BBCPolitics on 1st Oct 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
NHS gives go-ahead to experimental treatments for hundreds of patients who have failed to respond to conventional cures
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Guardian on 9th Aug 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Leading voices in medicine say current policies not going far enough to prevent deaths from alcohol-related diseases.
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Telegraph on 14th Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Leading voices in medicine tell MPs current policies not going far enough to prevent thousands of deaths from alcohol-related diseases every year.
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Telegraph on 13th Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Ministers are planning to force GPs to improve their performance by posting patients' comments about them on an NHS website, the Guardian can reveal. Ben Bradshaw, the health minister, wants to make it easy for patients in England to rate their family doctor's competence and bedside manner on bulletin boards on the NHS Choices website. Officials have been told to have the appropriate sof...
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Guardian on 30th Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
The number of patients waiting months for tests to detect cancer and other killer diseases has almost doubled since NHS waiting targets were scrapped, according to the Government's own figures.
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Telegraph on 23rd Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
It is an insight into modern Britain. The Office for National Statistics figures showed last month that in 2005/6, hospitals admitted 208,000 people with diseases caused by drink. That was double the figure 10 years before. But the cases recorded mostly dealt with illnesses directly caused by alcohol consumption such as cirrhosis and other liver diseases. Today ministers will say that the way the ...
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ATangledWeb on 22nd Jul 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
The number of admissions for alcohol related illness continues to sky rocket.The average age of cirrhosis patients continues in free fall.The cost to the alcoholics, their families, society as a whole, and the NHS continues to grow.The profits of the alcohol makers continues to grow.The Devils' plan is to leave the individual to their own devices. Well, if you count being under-educated by a syste...
Patients are using private hospitals at the expense of the NHS. However, this is a good thing. Despite the claims by doctors this is “losing” public money to the private sector: This is money that is being lost from the NHS. That can compromise services and patients should be told that by going private in this way
