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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Unison members split on NHS pensions
A ballot of Unison members on the government’s NHS pension reform plan has failed to deliver a clear verdict, the union has announced. Continue reading
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Tagged clear-verdict, government, nhs, pension-reform, the-government, the-union, union, unison
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Newly diagnosed teenagers struggle to manage diabetes
Preventing type 2 diabetes by cutting obesity levels in teenagers is vital to ensuring that the health service is not put under further strain in the future, new research has shown. Continue reading
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Tagged cutting-obesity, future, health, new-research, not-put, strain, the-future, the-health, under-further
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A third of doctors ignore teenage cancer symptoms
Two thirds (61%) of young people with cancer visited GPs with at least one of the most common cancer symptoms – yet for a third (28%) their doctors took no action, according to new research. Continue reading
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Tagged doctors, least-one, the-most, their-doctors, young-people
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Scent sprays to trigger appetite in people with dementia
Scent sprays to trigger appetite and wristband alarms are among key innovative designs which have been unveiled to help people with dementia. Continue reading
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Tagged among-key, been-unveiled, help-people, innovative-designs, trigger-appetite
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New telephone triage service refuses to take on NHS Direct nurses
NHS Direct has asked the Department of Health to get involved in a row over the transfer of nurses to the new non-emergency NHS 111 telephone number. Continue reading
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Tagged department, direct, get-involved, health, over-the-transfer, row-over, the-transfer, transfer
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PM’s nursing forum launches call for views
The Nursing and Care Quality Forum has launched a call for views from the profession. Continue reading
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Tagged from-the-profession, nursing, profession, quality, quality-forum
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Specialist discharge sister for end-of-life patients ‘a success’
A scheme piloting the introduction of an end-of-life discharge sister has proved successful for “many patients”, according to UK researchers. Continue reading
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Tagged discharge-sister, introduction, scheme-piloting, the-introduction
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Older people’s nursing ‘not widely perceived as a specialism’
Nurses who work predominantly with older patients are still not seen as specialists, despite the increasingly complex nature of care in this area, according to a study on international nursing opinion. Continue reading
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Hospitals ‘failing to deliver’ appropriate end-of-life care to dementia patients
Many patients with dementia who die in hospital still fail to receive sufficiently structured end of life care, a study in the North West has suggested. Continue reading
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Tagged hospital-still, north, north-west, structured-end, sufficiently-structured
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Nutrition champions ‘tackling patient malnutrition’
Nutrition link nurses are being used in Yorkshire to help introduce guidelines at ward level to tackle malnutrition among patients. Continue reading