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More UK Smokers Quitting Than Ever, But Rates Remain Too High
More smokers than ever are making use of Britain’s free NHS Stop Smoking Services to help them quit smoking for good, and more than ever are seeing the results they want. In the year to March 2010, 757,537 people set a quit date through NHS Stop...
U.K. Government Announces New Life Sciences Super Cluster
The British Government has announced plans for a new UK Life Sciences Super Cluster, supported by £1 million of Government investment. Bringing together industry, academia and the NHS, it will help deliver the next generation of medicines and technologies...
U.K. Government Launches Consultation to Provide Fairer Hospital Car Parking to Patients
A consultation to provide fairer hospital car parking to patients has been launched by the Department of Health.
U.K. Children Between the Ages of Six Months And Five Years to be Vaccinated Against Swine Flu in the Run Up to Christmas
Children between the ages of six months and five years will start to be vaccinated against swine flu in the run up to Christmas, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has announced. This age group has been identified as the next priority group for the vaccine...
U.K. Government Moves to Bring Free Personal Care At Home to Those with the Highest Needs Regardless of Their Means
The Bill that will help individuals with the highest care needs remain independent for longer, was introduced in the British Parliament today by Health Secretary Andy Burnham. The Personal Care at Home Bill will help around 400,000 people with the highest...
New Legal Rights for Britain’s NHS Patients
Patients in Britain will have legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective procedures and urgent cancer referrals and to an NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40-74, if proposals published today are taken forward. The proposals, set...
U.S. Think Tank Ranks the British NHS As Having One of the Best Primary Health Care Systems in the World
The NHS has been ranked as having one of the best primary health care systems in the world in a survey by the US think tank the Commonwealth Fund, published today. In a survey of more than 10,000 primary care physicians in 11 developed countries, the...
U.K. Government Launches National Pandemic Flu Service Web Site
A new self-care service which will give people with pandemic swine flu symptoms fast access to antivirals was launched today by U.K. Health Secretary Andy Burnham. The National Pandemic Flu Service is a new dedicated website (www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu)...
