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Associate Parliamentary Health Group

Daily media bulletin

Wednesday 15 February 2012

By Theme

 

Prime Minister outlines plans for tackling alcohol harm

PM targets binge drink 'scandal' BBC

David Cameron hints at minimum alcohol price The Guardian

Binge drinkers face being thrown in the drunk tank The Mirror

Booze Britain: 'drunk tanks' to tackle scandal of drinking culture The Telegraph

 

Research into cognitive behavioural therapy and menopause

Cognitive behavioural therapy helps menopause symptoms, study finds The Guardian

Woman who battled cancer must fight law to return ovary The Telegraph

 

Health and Social Care Bill

NHS bill eligible for new parliament debate after 100,000 sign e-petition The Guardian

Government forced to defend McKinsey bill involvement HSJ

NHS reform may put patients at risk, say reports The Independent

NHS patients 'will pay under health bill' The Telegraph

 

By Publication

 

BBC

Bacteria stop sleeping sickness

Bone gives 'some' heart healing

Cold baths 'ease muscular pain'

 

BMJ

Decline in NHS productivity over past decade is branded “a myth”

Peers’ rejection of statutory duty of candour is a missed opportunity, say campaigners

Mining industry fights release of study on health effects of diesel exhaust

 

The Daily Mail

No lie-in! Teens need just seven hours sleep a night, study finds

 

The Guardian

The NHS must accelerate its reforms on treating learning disabled patients

Poor nutrition stunts growth of nearly half of under-fives in Bangladesh

Cuts to children's services risk greater social inequality, says coalition adviser

 

HSJ

Reforms spell end of joint commissioning in Peterborough

NHS Midlands and East launches 'real time' monitoring of patient experience

Surgery uses patient list to market private tests

Treatment information for outpatients must improve, trusts warned

Hospital infection strategies 'wrong' - study

 

The Independent

74 deaths in NHS 'were avoidable'

Regenerative heart therapy 'closer' study claims

Do you like your doctor? It could be the death of you

 

The Mirror

Poor night's sleep 'could increase chances of getting dementia'

Gene alert for breast and ovarian cancer

Ban on smoking in public is helping cut numbers who are lighting up at home too, says report

Feeling the pressure: 71% have 'silent killer' hypertension

 

The Nursing Times

Nurses warn of dangerous dips in safe staffing levels

More outpatients treated with dignity but less getting enough information

NHS manager sets up care home rating website

 

Pulse

One GP in seven warns their local hospital is ‘dangerously substandard’

Defence bodies reject GPs cleared by GMC as ‘too expensive to insure’

Knee op restrictions are 'a false economy'

Depression ‘under-recognised’ in patients with schizophrenia

 

The Telegraph

Children denied opportunity to live up to their potential

TripAdvisor-style reviews for NHS

Talking 'good for menopause'