Search results for ‘Department of Health’
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NHS trusts still failing on safety alerts
Trust hospitals and primary care trusts are still failing to comply with patient safety alerts despite a warning a year ago that doing so was mandatory, Channel 4 News learns.
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NHS trusts still failing on safety alerts
Trust hospitals and primary care trusts are still failing to comply with patient safety alerts despite a warning a year ago that doing so was mandatory, Channel 4 News learns.
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Cut back on red meat, government warns
Britons should cut back on the amount of red and processed meat consumed in order to stave off bowel cancer, government scientists are expected to warn.
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The NHS reforms and you
As David Cameron turns out to support the NHS reforms, our Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria Macdonald looks at what difference they will make in your local health service.
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Breastfeeding exclusively for six months may not be best
Breastfeeding exclusively for six months may not be best for babies, according to a new study. Mums of young children tell Channel 4 News the conflicting advice is confusing.
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Flu deaths more than double in a week
More than 60 people died of flu in the UK last week, bringing the total number of deaths since September to 112. Interim Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies answers your questions on Channel 4 News.
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Three-year-old’s death sparks parents’ swine flu campaign
A couple whose 3-year-old daughter died of swine flu over Christmas are campaigning for the Government to rethink its policy not to vaccinate children deemed not at risk, as Katie Razzall reports.
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Government to tap vaccine stock as flu death toll rises
The Government is to tap its reserves of the swine flu vaccine to help tackle the winter flu outbreak, but the drug will not combat the strain that has killed five people this winter.
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Flu epidemic fears dismissed as ‘political opportunism’
The government has defended its flu jab programme against Labour criticism, insisting that under-fives were excluded from this year’s vaccinations on medical grounds, rather than cost.
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Intensive care flu cases soar as 24 die from swine flu
There are 460 people in intensive care across Britain with confirmed or suspected flu – more than twice as many people as there were a week ago.
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Government pushes on with NHS reforms
The Coalition Government is to press ahead with radical reforms of the National Health Service, which will see as much as 80 per cent of the budget in the hands of GPs, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Government pushes on with NHS reforms
The Coalition Government is to press ahead with radical reforms of the National Health Service, which will see as much as 80 per cent of the budget in the hands of GPs, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Doctor: we need a roadmap for NHS reform
A doctor who set up the first GP consortia tells Channel 4 News that medical professionals, PCTs and local authorities need a roadmap from the Government to guide them through its radical reforms.
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Locals speak of calm in Haiti
Violent anti-UN protests have subsided in Haiti though demonstrators are gathering tonight outside the Government’s Health Ministry in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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‘Highly likely’ chemical in water contributed to death
Scientists tell an inquest it was “highly likely” that aluminium sulphate accidentally-added to the Cornwall water supply 22 years ago contributed to a woman’s early death, writes Julian Rush.
