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Last update: Wednesday 25th March
 
The NHS could claw back more than £500 million in a year if it was better at charging foreign nationals for using NHS services, a report suggests. The health service could raise the cash – which is the equivalent of 0.45% of its annual budget – by deterring so-called ‘health tourists’, recovering care charges from overseas visitors and charging temporary migrants for accessing NHS care, the report found. Health tourists – such as women who travel to the UK in late pregnancy and give birth in an NHS hospital before returning home – cost the health service at least £70 million each year. Experts have previously raised concerns about the escalating costs of health tourism particularly across maternity services, oncology, HIV services, infertility and in the treatment of renal failure. But a recent European Commission report concluded that so-called benefits tourism was “neither widespread nor systematic”.
HealthThe Sentinel, October 23, 2013
 
In early August the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision in the joint case brought by Paul Lamb and the family of the late Tony Nicklinson. The case was dismissed by three judges who ruled that it was unlawful for a doctor to end the life of a patient on request and that it was for Parliament, not the courts, to decide whether the law should be changed. Andrea Williams said: ‘It was always unlikely that the court would rule in [their] favour. The legal battle is part of a bigger strategy of the anti-life lobby.
HealthEvangelicals Now, September 2013
 
David Cameron says he wants to offer more patients the chance to visit a GP in the evening or at weekends. Under a scheme to be piloted in nine areas of England, surgeries will be able to bid for funding to open from 8am to 8pm seven days a week. Manchester is already piloting an extended-hours scheme for GPs, with GPs grouping together to offer extra care, in what is being billed as an attempt to prevent ‘unnecessary’ visits to hospital A&E wards. The wider scheme will see practices applying for a share of a £50m ‘Challenge Fund’, with surgeries becoming ‘pioneers’ in each of nine regions, starting in 2014/15. Mr Cameron is also promising more ‘flexible access’, including email, Skype and telephone consultations for patients who prefer this to face-to-face contact.
HealthThe Sentinel, October 2 2013
 
A Senior GP has branded some fellow doctors ‘lazy’ for sending too many patients to further clog up an A&E unit. The trend has caused it to continually miss targets for 95 per cent of patients to be seen in four hours and resulted in the trust plunging into financial crisis by re-opening 100 beds to carter for the extra demand. Health experts estimate that between 10 and 30 per cent of the 120,000 cases there a year are so minor they could easily have been seen at walk-in centres, chemists, surgeries or even by people treating themselves.
HealthThe Sentinel - July 10, 2013
 
According to a report released in May, almost one third (30.7%) of the 12,447 women in Scotland who had a termination in 2012 had had a previous termination. These had been predominantly carried out the grounds that continuing pregnancy would risk ‘injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman’. The report also found a clear link between terminations and the level of social deprivation.
HealthEvangelicals Now - July 2013
 
Banning parents from driving their children to school to reduce childhood obesity may be “a step too far”, Britain’s leading public health expert has been warned. Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said if parents must drive children to school they should drop them off a few hundred yards away. But Justine Roberts, Chief Executive of Mumsnet, said there would be a “mixed reaction” from parents struggling to find a practical solution. And sustainable transport charity Sustrans said addressing traffic speed and volume, rather than banning the school run, was “critical” in allowing more children to walk or cycle to school
HealthThe Sentinel - July 4, 2013
 
The ever-increasing UK suicide rates make incredibly shocking reading. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show a significant rise in suicide in 2011 with a total of 6,045 people having taken their own life – 4,552 of them were men. Suicide is now the biggest killer of young men across the UK. More die each day as a result of suicide than road accidents, HIV/AIDS, and assaults combined. The highest rate is in 30 to 44-year-old males.
HealthIdea - July/August 2013
 
Samaritans has scored a partnership with the Health Insurance Group, which will sponsor all of its running events through 2013. The sponsorship package covers new vests and receptions for runners after key marathons. Samaritans expects runners will raise £250,000. The charity approached the insurers, believing there to be a synergy between them.
HealthFundraising - May 2013
 
Glasses and contact lenses that correct the vision of people suffering a common form of age-related sight loss are being developed by scientists. A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has discovered a way to compensate for the distort¬ed vision experienced by people suffering from age-related macular degeneration. Damage to the retina causes their sight to become blurry and distorted. Over time they can become completely blind. The condition affects more than 460,000 British people.
HealthSunday Telegraph 21.07.2013
 
Only one in five casualty wards in England has enough consultants on duty, MPs are to warn this week. The report, from the health select committee, will say that patient safety is being put at risk by the shortages, leaving people in need of critical care in the hands of junior doctors. The result is that "A&E departments are in crisis", it says, and the NHS's new 111 help line has failed to improve the situation. A separate report by the General Medical Council also names 14 NHS trusts that have problems finding enough staff to run accident and emergency wards safely, highlighting an unprecedented staffing crisis in A&E.
HealthSunday Telegraph 21.07.2013
 
Out-of-hours GP firms that routinely put patients at risk face being shut down, the health watchdog has warned. All organisations responsible for running services at evenings and weekends will undergo rigorous inspections from next year. The Care Quality Commission will rate them on safety, management and care. Those falling short will be ordered to improve. If they fail, they will be closed and other organisations or groups of GPs recruited in their place. There has been growing concern over the state of out-of-hours care since 2004, when doctors were allowed to opt out of the shifts under a contract negotiated by Labour. Most surgeries now subcontract this work to private firms, some of whom appear to be running services on the cheap.
HealthDaily Mail 19.07.13
 
Breaking into a sweat may be an unpleasant side effect of the current heat wave but doing so during exercise can reduce the likelihood of a stroke, according to researchers. Scientists found that inactive people are 20 per cent more likely to experience a stroke or mini-stroke than those who exercise at a moderate or vigorous intensity - enough to work up a sweat - four times a week. Among the men in the study, only those who exercised at the same intensity four or more times a week had a lowered stroke risk. But when it came to women, the relationship between stroke and frequency of physical activity was less clear. The study, published in the journal Stroke, looked at more than 27,000 Americans aged 45 and older who were followed for an average of 5.7 years.
HealthDaily Mail 19.07.13
 
Britain is among the least active nations in Europe despite being one of the most diet-obsessed, according to a survey. Asked whether they regularly practised a sport, only a fifth of respondents in the UK said yes, compared to well over half in Den¬mark and Holland. Only Poland is less active. However, few watch their waist¬line more closely than a Briton, with 17 per cent of UK respondents claiming to have followed a slim¬ming diet in the previous six months. This was higher than all other countries except Denmark (23 percent) and more than double the number in Germany, where the response was just 8 per cent.
HealthDaily Mail 19.07.13
 
Electronic cigarettes are to be classed as ‘medicines’ under new proposals to tighten up the regulation of nicotine-containing products. Manufacturers are to face tough new tests before they can sell their e-cigarettes as ‘licenced products’, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said. The move will also mean that licenced e-cigarettes can be prescribed by medics to help smokers cut down or quit. It is estimated that 1.3 million people across the UK use battery powered e-cigarettes.
HealthThe Sentinel, June 13th 2013
 
Official statistics show that one in five of us will become a carer for a parent at some point in our lives, adding another obstacle for young people who are already struggling to move out and set up home on their own due to high costs.
HealthFamilies First, July/August 2013
 
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