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Patients ‘more likely to die in smaller hospitals National Health Service patients are more likely to die in smaller hospitals following surgery, according to a new investigation. Hospitals named and shamed over car park clamping The friends and families of sick patients are being targeted with unfair parking charges, clamping and fines, according to a consumer watchdog. New ‘super hospital’ to treat injured soldiers Troops injured in Afghanistan are to receive treatment at a new £545million ‘super hospital’, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday. Hospitals face re-admission charges The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, will today announce plans to make hospitals responsible for patients for up to a month after they are discharged. NHS paying fat patients to lose weight The NHS is being encouraged to pay obese patients to lose weight after a scheme run by one primary care trust helped over 100 people to shed nearly two stone each in a year Health tourism costing NHS millions Foreign nationals who travel to the UK for medical treatment are costing the National Health Service millions of pounds a month by not paying for their care. NHS preparing to slash operations as budget cuts bite Millions of patients are facing the prospect of losing access to NHS care as health managers prepare to slash budgets in order to save £20billion in the next four years, a leading doctor has warned. MSRA and C.Diff hospital data to be published online for public scrutiny The public are to be given access to the weekly MRSA and Clostridium difficile (C diff) rates at their local hospitals in a bid to boost transparency within the NHS, the government have announced. How much do you drink? Doctors to quiz patients over booze habitsGovernment health advisors are to tell GPs that they must regularly quiz their patients about their alcohol consumption in a bid to reduce binge drinking. NHS to be freed from political shackles Freeing the health service from political interference and creating a new ‘public health service’ have been identified as the coalition government’s aims for the NHS, unveiled in the Queen’s speech. NHS faces opposition to ‘secret’ baby DNA database Millions of babies have had their DNA stored on an NHS database without their parents consent, it has been revealed. Health service will not be spared when the axe falls The National Health Service will not be spared the efficiency savings which the government will impose on the entire public sector, Andrew Lansley, the new Health Secretary, has warned. Staffordshire's Horse Ambulance serves Cannock Chase Britain's first 'horse ambulance' goes into active duty on Cannock Chase. 'Chase' is the latest recruit to West Midlands Ambulance Service in Staffordshire. |
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