Tuesday 30 November 2010, 3:48PMBritons would be far healthier if the NHS paid its doctors less but employed more of them, a shock international report has concluded.
Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:57AMNorthern Britain is hardest hit as the arrival of Arctic air causes temperatures to plummet. Now all of the UK is forecast to see snow by midweek
Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:57AMUnless personal electronic health records align closely with people’s attitudes, self management practices, identified information needs, and the wider care package (including organisational routines and incentive structures for clinicians), the risk that they will be abandoned or not adopted at all is substantial.
Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:56AMNineteen hospital trusts are today exposed as having alarmingly high death rates in a major report that also reveals how hundreds of people are dying needlessly because of substandard NHS care.
Tuesday 30 November 2010, 10:42AMA Tauranga GP has hit out at Bay of Plenty District Health Board over its handling of specialist referrals.
Monday 29 November 2010, 2:59PMA GP has warned that lives will be lost if plans to reorganise maternity care in north Wales go ahead.
Monday 29 November 2010, 2:59PMCapital & Coast District Health Board chief executive Ken Whelan, who said the details of the agreement needed to be spelled out in the national plan.
Monday 29 November 2010, 2:00PMNobody knows how safe it is to have a home birth, because the Health Ministry can't tell how many women do it.
Monday 29 November 2010, 1:58PMAge concern receives frequent complaints about food in rest homes.
Monday 29 November 2010, 1:50PMA health coaching service has been shown in overseas trials to cut hospitalisation rates by 10 per cent.
Monday 29 November 2010, 1:49PMHealth secretary admits that state intervention is sometimes necessary to protect people from themselves
Monday 29 November 2010, 1:49PMIt is still unclear when the final ministerial appointee to the next Southern District Health Board will be announced.
Monday 29 November 2010, 1:48PMTaking the temperature outside A&E could give staff an accurate way to predict number of injuries and who will suffer them.
Thursday 25 November 2010, 3:14PMThe Gillard government's much-vaunted $467 million personally-controlled e-health record due by July 2012 will in the first instance be a modest patient health summary drawn from existing data sources.
Thursday 25 November 2010, 3:13PMA major review of the welfare state has put forward options that could require the vast majority of sole parents, sick and disabled beneficiaries to look for work.
Thursday 25 November 2010, 2:36PMA four-year-old Iraqi girl has heard her mother's voice - and other sounds - for the first time following an operation in India.
Thursday 25 November 2010, 11:06AMLet the boys in. That is the blunt message the Federation of Medical Women of Canada has delivered to public health officials who have limited HPV school-based vaccination programs to girls and young women.
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 9:24AMBecause children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to radiation, doctors three years ago mounted a national campaign to protect them by reducing diagnostic radiation to only those levels seen as absolutely necessary.
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 9:22AMThe Vatican today broadened the scope of the pope's remarks about the use of condoms to prevent Aids, apparently opening the way for their widespread use by Roman Catholics in Africa and other parts of the world blighted by the disease.
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 9:16AMGovernment policy on cancer drugs will cause huge problems by raising expectations that cannot be matched, NHS managers implementing the £50 million Interim Cancer Drugs Fund have warned.
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 9:14AMThe future of child cancer services in Wellington is on a knife-edge again after families learned of a Government plan that they say will kill hard-won services in the capital.
Wednesday 24 November 2010, 9:00AMProximity to a major hospital appears to impact on the investment a GP is likely to make in medical equipment, according to a survey carried out by University College Cork, Aoife Connors reports.
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 2:59PMExclusive: Some drugs for the cardiovascular management of elderly patients may be doing more harm than good and needs ‘a fresh look’ in light of real-life experience rather than trial evidence, a senior Government expert has warned.
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 2:58PMHospitals are treating a growing number of drug users who have overdosed on heroin mixed with other substances by dealers because of a huge shortage of the opiate across the UK.
Tuesday 23 November 2010, 2:56PMKevin Atkinson Kevin Atkinson is back in the driver's seat of the Hawke's Bay District Health Board after a 2-year hiatus.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:46PMDoctors warned to expect unrest over NHS reforms - Guardian
Exclusive: GPs' leader criticises Lansley's reform plans and predicts that doctors will face demonstrations by angry patients
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:45PMPRIMARY Health Care is to slash 290 pathology, radiology and administration jobs and will close 23 diagnostic imaging practices in a bid to offset funding cuts to the health care sector.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:41PMGiving breast cancer patients cough syrup might tell doctors how well they will respond to a vital drug. Women often respond differently to Tamoxifen, which can mean they need a higher dose to get the same effect.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:38PMPope Benedict XVI has said the use of condoms is acceptable in exceptional circumstances, according to a new book. He said condoms could reduce the risk of HIV infection, such as for a male prostitute, in a series of interviews given to a German journalist.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:36PMThe Southern District Health Board and rural maternity providers have been meeting this week to try to work through the future viability of some services.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:35PMBook time to see GP via central call centre - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Patients could be forced to make doctors' appointments through remote call centres under an efficiency drive to save the NHS £600 million.
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:31PMA Welsh NHS trust has told nurses festivities are off because of economic concerns and religious minorities, but it won't wash
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:28PMClare Gerada, the new chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, recalls life as a daughter of a doctor
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:25PMNurse practitioners could ease pressure
Monday 22 November 2010, 1:12PMAn aging population and a strained health-care system point to a looming crisis in palliative care in Canada. While Quebec debates euthanasia, many critics say the country needs to fix the palliative care system before seeking A more radical option.
Friday 19 November 2010, 10:27AMTwo miscarried babies were disposed of by Capital & Coast District Health Board rather than returned to their families.
Friday 19 November 2010, 10:25AMA new report on the future of nursing debunks the notion that physicians are the only ones who should lead changes in the current health care system.
Friday 19 November 2010, 10:25AMA tiny capsule could help smuggle anti-cancer drugs past a barrier designed to protect the brain from attack.
Friday 19 November 2010, 10:25AMDextromethorphan with quinidine appears safe and effective for a syndrome seen in neurological disorders.
Friday 19 November 2010, 10:24AMHave high blood pressure? Australian scientists may have a new solution - but it won't win you a lot of friends. The secret weapon is garlic.