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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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" .

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The NHS was rescued thanks to me.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. "

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. )

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

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

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