Northern Ireland Health Minister Michelle O’Neill today welcomed an extra £72million for health and social care services but said she remains focused on long-term reform. The Minister was speaking after
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In response to the current policy emphasis on delivering more integrated health and social care, the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy has published five new practical guides to
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People are more fearful of getting neurological disorders than cancer, a new poll suggests. When people were asked what illness they feared getting the most, a total of 45% said
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A failure to implement robust primary healthcare systems could see the developing world combating a $21trillion healthcare crisis – equivalent to the GDP of the USA and UK combined. Stuart
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A preventive HIV treatment is taking too long to be made available on the NHS, according to campaigners who are taking the matter to judicial review. National Aids Trust chief
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Hundreds of thousands more people will test themselves for bowel cancer thanks to a new and simpler home-testing kit, health officials have said. The new bowel cancer assessment is to
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A quarter of a million people across the UK could die needlessly over the coming nine years from preventable conditions, a new report suggests. More must be done to address
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Noel Edmonds has suggested that a cancer sufferer’s ill health is caused by his “negative attitude”. The TV presenter is a user of the EMPpad, a machine which aims to
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Jeremy Hunt has been urged to give NHS England the power to commission an HIV prevention treatment which could be a “game changer” in stopping the spread of the infection.
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Websites and smartphone applications developed by the University of Liverpool are at the forefront of helping healthcare professionals to safely prescribe medications for HIV and hepatitis patients. Developed and maintained
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