NHS

Unlike other areas of public spending, like the NHS, we cannot say that science spending as a share of GDP is at its highest ever.

Both main parties have pledged to maintain spending on the National Health Service (NHS), at least for the next few years.

Paediatric neurosurgeon Ian Pople, one of the lead researchers, said he hoped the technique would soon be used in the NHS.

Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service.

Being a man of action, he brought up the laptop and logged on to the NHS Swine Flu symptom-checker.

Question 583 asks how much choice do you think NHS patients should have, and 584 asks how much choice do you think they actually have.

The patches will be added to the 'Quit Kits' currently handed out to smokers trying to give via the NHS Stop Smoking Campaign.

That decision was mistaken: the NHS budget grew extravagantly under the previous Labour government and was as ripe as any for pruning.

It is clearly up to the NHS to help everyone improve their chances to live longer and healthier lives.

METHOD: A retrospective study was carried out over a year in all psychiatric inpatient units in Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.

Sensitive as he is to the old charge of Tory heartlessness over the NHS, Mr Cameron's own enthusiasm waned as the row intensified.

But many of his MPs and others in the party do not share his cuddly views on the NHS or relatively pragmatic stance on Europe.

The NHS can surely get more value out of its huge budget. Its doctors are now among the world's best paid.

One organisation trying to apply such lean methods is Bolton NHS Trust.

From today, applicants must state if they want to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register or not, or defer a decision.

Last night Dr Wells said he hoped his test could become standard practice in both private and NHS clinics.

A patient's first point of contact with the NHS is usually their general practitioner (GP).

YOU could be forgiven for thinking the proposed overhaul of the National Health Service (NHS) a mere bagatelle.

Though the Liberal Democrats do not rule out cutting the NHS budget, both the main parties see eye to eye about money.

Fortunately, most NHS organisations are not allowed to use the commercial banking sector for depositing cash to earn interest.

We're extremely encouraged by our findings, and keen to see the approach adopted within the NHS.

If the NHS fiasco is a delayed consequence of Cameron-as-chairman, there might be fewer unforced errors in future.

Ever since the founding of the NHS, long waiting lists had regulated costs; the new money saw waiting lists virtually abolished.

Even at this time of fiscal stringency NHS spending has been spared from cuts for the next five years.

While, potential claw backs aside, NHS spending is guaranteed up to April 2011, what happens after then looks decidedly less rosy.

Drug addicts should be given shopping vouchers to help them kick their habit, the NHS advisory body suggests.

We seem to be missing your NHS number.

Hospital wards across the NHS are breaking recommended noise limits, disturbing patients' sleep, well-being and recovery, experts say.

The competitiveness of nursing pay is shown to have a strong effect on the ability of the NHS to attract and retain nurses.

"Such a proposal might ultimately cost the NHS substantially more than the short-term saving. "

Whoever wins, the NHS will remain free at the point of use and financed by taxes.

This article describes how the creation of the role of nurse educator in dementia care helped to address this problem in one NHS trust.

But pay would have to be held down and the workforce cut by around 10%, say NHS -watches.

The Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust said only white artificial limbs had been initially made available.

NHS waiting lists for operations can be very long, so people can jump the queue by paying for their operation.

Average Britons are usually quite vocal about what they see as the shortcomings of their national health care system, the NHS.

His eyes were created by a specialist unit at Blackpool which makes prosthetic eyes for the NHS.

Together with huge welfare cuts, this puts pressure on the police to sort out the homeless and the hungry and increases demand on the NHS.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, one of the biggest maternity providers in England, reported closing 28 times.

One part was a bid to introduce more choice and competition, by enabling private and voluntary providers to treat more NHS patients.

The NHS performs 65, 000 knee replacements a year, many on patients with arthritis of the knee.

The devices provide video imaging for a wide range of uses everywhere from the internet to the NHS.

Compared to men, women are more likely to favour Labour or Liberal policies such as higher taxes to fund provisions like the NHS.

When an audit of hand hygiene practice in an NHS trust revealed room for improvement, a strategy was developed to address the issue.

Its NHS Direct website quotes the African studies on circumcision and Aids, but then claims that the evidence is not conclusive.

NHS surgeons are to be paid bonuses based on the number of lives they save, in radical plans being drawn up by hospitals across Britain.

Davis is part of a consortium to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of leading-edge technology in the NHS.

Many of these nurses are considering leaving the NHS and that would pose real problems.

The NHS study suggests that energy expenditure is responsible for only a quarter of hospital carbon emissions.

The NHS is expected to pay existing marriage guidance services , and newly- trained counsellors to provide the therapy .

Female doctors are massively under-represented in senior jobs in the NHS, universities and within the BMA and medical royal colleges.

In this paper, the author gives some background to the independent sector, its expansion and how it is now a partner to the NHS.

Unlike most other public services, the NHS will be spared real cuts, but increasing demands mean it will have to do more for its money.

A low uptake of the vaccine could hamper efforts to control the outbreak and increase pressure on the NHS during the winter.

I had no money, so I could not afford any counselling, and was offered none on the NHS.

Membership also includes all of Londons higher education institutions as well as further education colleges and NHS hospital trusts.

The NHS accounts for a fifth of all public spending but uses just 4% of its funds to dodge disease rather than tackle it.

Davis said she wants more help from the NHS, saying her problem is no different from drug or alcohol addiction.

The NHS defines binge-eating as a disorder where the sufferer feels "compelled to overeat" .

It is also where people are often most dissatisfied: more than half of all complaints to the NHS are about end-of-life care.

At the NHS Confederation conference, senior health service managers held an early-morning session to refine their emergency plans.

That permitted the NHS to recruit a third more sta. , purchase more pricey kit and increase the number of medical treatments.

One beneficiary was Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust in her home city.

Foreigners are to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS for the first time under controversial plans backed by ministers.

The NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is a start, bringing talking treatments closer to communities.

Staff at South Essex Partnership NHS Trust instituted an audit to provide an accurate picture of the impact of modern matrons.

Researchers looked at studies from between 1990 and 2007 to work out the success rates for NHS schemes to help people stop.

The other main part of the plan deals with the way secondary care is commissioned within the NHS.

The crosslinking reaction can be conducted in the presence of N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS).

The rhetoric surrounding the reforms of the NHS and Community Care Act makes much of the benefits to clients.

Turn primary-care trusts, which purchase most care within the NHS in England, into elected local health boards.

HM Government has issued a new leaflet to justify its NHS reforms: Working Together for a Stronger NHS.

Although I'd chosen the cheaper option of transitioning on the NHS, failure to maintain a full-time job could still stop me in my tracks.

But only a fifth of the population, 13 million people, have actually added their names to the NHS register.

The figures, released by the NHS Information Centre, also show that fewer women are smoking prior to and during pregnancy.

This pledge is a great example of how business can work with NHS staff to provide women with valuable information.

Can you imagine the IEA deciding that private companies should get their noses out of the NHS?

Reid's first stop is the U. K. , where the government-run National Health Service (NHS) is funded through taxes.

Leader of the opposition Conservative Party, David Cameron entered the fray on Friday, also in support of the NHS.

He must explain how, financial protection aside, because of his radical NHS reforms there will be blood-curdling screams.

In recent years many dentists have turned to private practice as fees for doing NHS work have been squeezed.

NHS surgeons perform about 39, 000 appendectomies a year.

Patient safety is a major concern in the NHS, and medicines management is a vital aspect of this.

He says that by not acting to tackle the problem, the NHS is making "a rod for its own back" .

The implementation of a minimum-lifting policy at one NHS trust is studied, and the early results reported.

Currently, 80% of cases affect women over the age of 50, so the NHS offers free breast screening every 3 years for women aged 50 and over.

In Britain the term applies mainly to the National Health Service (NHS), national insurance and social security.

Men are to be given NHS counselling for postnatal depression.

The Change4Life programme is a campaign by the NHS to persuade people, especially children, to take more exercise and eat healthily.

Failing Scottish hospitals are not "named and shamed" in public, a tactic many believe has driven improvements in the NHS in England.

The health of teenagers is currently a priority of the NHS, with many schemes and projects being developed.

Nigel Lawson, a former Conservative chancellor, observed that England only had one national religion: the NHS.

The NHS budget has grown twice as fast as the British economy since 1950.

Voters don't do gratitude: many school or NHS users could make no comparison if they weren't parents or patients at the decade's start.

experiences. Nurses and other health care professionals at a London NHS trust have begun a trust-wide benchmarking project.

The NHS provides health care to all at a much lower total cost, but patients have less clout.

But, in general Britons do not want the NHS replaced, they want it improved.

Why should this be, given that the National Health Service (NHS) provides free care to all?

The FTAC was set up by the police and NHS in 2006, to assess the risk posed by stalkers who harass the royal family and politicians.

Because of the different designs, you're no longer the kid in the corner with the pink or blue NHS glasses.

All NHS hospitals are to join the ranks of the foundation trusts, and thus to enjoy greater autonomy.

The government is in the middle of a massive IT project to unite the NHS's various computer systems.

Those are things we take for granted in the NHS. In Africa, whole health systems need to be upgraded.

The NHS has introduced the assistant practitioner role to combat staff shortages and provide high quality care.

The struggle for NHS reform has not been completely lost.

The workbook aims to accompany clinical-based learning and help HCAs progress through the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Women expecting twins or triplets should be offered closer monitoring, including extra scans, according to new NHS guidelines.

For patients'safety, all calls to NHS Wales Direct are recorded. Calls are charged at the same rate as local calls.

We supply the NHS with staff so it's very important for the patients that we have reliable workers.

In a hammy gesture on the eve of the 1997 poll, Tony Blair claimed that voters had just 24 hours to save the NHS.

However, we will need a massive injection of cash into the NHS to cope with the increase in Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

for all-comers. Drugs, if required, are dispensed directly and, where appropriate, NHS charges levied.

Can quality and productivity improve in a financially poorer NHS?

It costs the NHS ? 5billion a year to treat smoking related diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease.

The incident occurred in 1994, the year following the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act.

Can, as the NHS claims, anything be addictive, from gambling to chocolate?

The NHS leaflet has been drawn up by Sheffield primary care trust and is entitled Pleasure.

The NHS, which covers all legal residents, is funded via central taxation and fees on certain services.

NHS leaders are hoping Lansley will set out a revised plan.

Over half of NHS bodies in England must improve services or financial management, a watchdog finds.

As Britain ages and its medical bills soar, the NHS must experiment or die.

A rapid diagnosis device has the potential to save lives and reduce the cost burden to the NHS.

In particular, new guidance applies to the high profile issue of NHS continuing health care.

Since then, we've seen the massive 2000 NHS Cancer Plan, a new decade and a new century.

He spoke out after studying hundreds of pillows used by patients in hospitals run by Barts and the London NHS Trust.

Readers in the US may have heard some bizarre tales about the NHS in the past few days.

These guidelines are simply not implemented, because there are far too few psychotherapists in the National Health Service.

She discovered foot re-shaping surgery was available on the NHS for patients in serious pain.

During its first two years it supplied 100m false teeth, and the first patient charges it introduced, in 1951, were for dentures.

A comprehensive job evaluation scheme is currently being introduced in the NHS.

The Conservatives, he says, would destroy the NHS guarantees that Labour has built up.

They hardly seem as important as civil servants running the NHS or overseeing the UK's military.

My dad, like many men from the subcontinent, was already living and working here, a doctor in the NHS.

Data from the NHS Information Centre shows a continuing downward trend since 2003, when almost two-thirds had tried alcohol.

The procedure of inserting tunnelled central venous catheters was once carried out by surgeons or radiologists at Glasgow NHS Trust.

The NHS points out that health records are not held centrally, but by individual trusts.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has issued a strict new uniform policy for all staff after a series of complaints from patients.

The UK's National Health Service was founded, in the face of bitter opposition, more than 60 years ago.

Official NHS statistics are published every October.

The NHS has defended them, saying it deals with "grown-up issues" in a way that is accessible to the target age-group.

Mr Korn's invention has already attracted the attention of the NHS.

But now Britain's National Health Service (NHS) will be offering a new solution: acupuncture.

Protect NHS budget from real cuts over next parliament, Let GPs purchase local hospital treatments for their patients.

Like that other hard-to-reform institution, the NHS, it labours under the weight of bureaucracy and self-praise.

Beyond money matters, is there a fundamental fight over the future of the NHS?

Sources have also claimed that there have been 20 incidents that have affected hospitals and other NHS sites at the same time.

The charity says the rise poses a "massive challenge" for the NHS.

And the NHS in Medway, Kent, have even started producing sex advice to pensioners.

As with the education system I reflected on how lucky we are in Britain to have the fantastic institution that is the NHS.

Rotavirus vaccination isn't usually available on the NHS.

Before the NHS debacle, in fact, the coalition's foreign policy looked shakier than its domestic reforms.

After the war, they moved to Blackpool, where my father, a strong socialist, benefited from the new NHS.

There are now more managers, administrators and support staff in the NHS than there are hospital beds.

In the NHS, there is a perceived need for evidence-based guidelines to improve outcomes in all fields of health care.

A new report from the National Audit Office looks at what can be done to make the NHS a safer environment for patients.

The government is already planning huge databases for the ID cards schemes and NHS patients' records.

By using fewer drugs, we would make the cycles cheaper and the NHS could offer more treatment cycles.

NHS income may, however, be under threat from the Treasury.

X-rays are used widely in the NHS to examine wisdom teeth, gum disease and during general check-ups, and their use is on the rise.

The information will be published on the NHS Choices website.

In 2005, NHS Greater Glasgow introduced a primary care management of SUI pathway.

The NHS is thus much better placed than most public services.

NHS Direct was developed as part of the government' s drive to deliver quality care wherever and whenever needed.

Compared with males, females tend to be more in favour of higher taxes to fund provision such as the NHS.

The NHS is telling school pupils they have a 'right' to an enjoyable sex life and that it is good for their health.

Before the risks of mad-cow disease were understood, the NHS routinely reused its nailclippers.

If a person is logged into Facebook and visits a Choices web page, information about that visit is transmitted to both Facebook and the NHS.

NICE has issued guidance to the NHS in England and Wales on the use of inhaled insulin for the treatment of diabetes (type 1 and 2).

And you can get all of these for free on the NHS.

NHS Direct, a hotline, dishes out medical advice by phone and the internet to 8m people.

The NHS was rescued thanks to me.

The National Health Service (NHS) is based on a primary health care model.

Others said that the risk inherent in multiple births was too urgent to wait for the NHS to change its spending priorities.

taking money from strained NHS budgets away from other priorities such as heart disease and cancer.

The UK online NHS health advice service says that around 40 per cent of people over 65 experience some kind of memory loss.

The NHS breast cancer screening programme started in 1990 and invites women aged 50-70 to have a mammogram once every three years.

Sources have also claimed th at there have been 20 incidents th at have affected hospitals and other NHS sites at the same time.

Hilton Plettell was asked to visit Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Hospital to find out how long pregnant he was, Sky News reports.

But there is potential for strife in areas besides the NHS.

The official line is that reforms to schools, the NHS and other institutions are proceeding as intended.

The study was conducted by researchers with the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Alternatively, you can call the NHS smoking helpline number on 0800 022 4332 for information and advice.

According to figures released by the Department of Health today, the NHS has saved 70, 000 lives by supporting those who want to quit.

If a baby or a child is sunburnt, or you've got blisters or a fever, you should seek medical advice from your GP or NHS Direct.

Read the NHS article on the study: Is loneliness contagious?

Before last year's election the Tories reassured voters that there would be no "top-down reorganisation of the NHS" .

Only 200, 000 of the NHS's 1. 4m staff in England provide administrative support, reckons Reform, a think-tank.

There is certainly room for refinement in the government's plans for the NHS.

Massage therapy is used by The Royal Marsden NHS Trust for cancer patients who are having problems relaxing or getting to sleep.

Alternatively, call the NHS Smoking Helpline on 0800 022 4332 to find out about stop smoking services in your area.

They have some reforms in mind, such as targeting funds at deprived areas and allowing more private providers to treat NHS patients.

Voluntary organisations such as Alcoholics Anonymous have a better record than the NHS at teaching people to look after themselves.

The leaflet says: "Since May 2010 the NHS has gained 2, 550 more doctors and has 3, 000 fewer managers. "

The current study analyzed data from NHS participants who had provided a blood sample in 1989 or 1990 and were cancer-free at that time.

Last year the government produced a two-part blueprint for reforming the NHS.

The NHS was also built on the assumption that general hospitals are the flagships of the system. (Mr Cameron promises to defend them. )

Appalling emergency care resulted in enormous suffering, says health watchdog in most damning report ever on an NHS hospital

The NHS, it is revealed today, has its very own black Wednesday, when death rates go up by an average of 6%;

At the same time the charity Alcohol Concern predicted the number of admissions would reach 1. 5m a year by 2015 and cost the NHS

Occupational health requirements within specialist units in the NHS

the NHS element of National Insurance contributions;

Changing And Improving The Nhs: Social Movements And Other Radical Approaches

National Health Service econormic evaluation database, NHS EED

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust

Code of Practice for NHS Employers

We will certainly need to if a quarter of Britons are right in predicting the NHS will no longer exist in 2025

The recommended daily calorie intake is 2, 000 for women, and 2, 500 for men (NHS Choices)