PiP one year on: thousands of women have turned to NHS for help
One year on since serious problems with PiP breast implants emerged, almost 8,000 women, who had their implants put in privately, have turned to the NHS for help. The latest figures published last week...
View ArticleSummary of cosmetic interventions call for evidence responses published
The responses to the cosmetic surgery review call for evidence have been published today. The call for evidence was issued to enable the public, cosmetic interventions industry and patient groups to...
View Article‘Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.’ campaign to help reduce flu infections
A campaign is launching today to encourage the public to adopt good respiratory and hand hygiene practices – to ‘Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.’ – to help stem flu infections. We are being encouraged to...
View ArticlePersonal health budgets update – Winter 2012
The bumper Winter 2012 edition of ‘Update’, the personal health budgets information sheet, has been published – including all the news about national rollout of the policy across the NHS. This edition...
View ArticleGuidance published on registering a vision impairment as a disability
The department has published information on how to register a vision impairment as a disability. Being registered as partially sighted or blind enables that person to access a range of benefits to help...
View ArticleUpdate on flexibility of wording for health claims published
An update providing recommendations for food business operators about flexibility of wording for health claims, was circulated to interested parties on 3 January 2013. Read the update on general...
View ArticleResources to support information sharing to tackle violence
Hospitals are well placed to promote community safety and wellbeing through collecting information about patients who have been assaulted and sharing information appropriately. This can be done without...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt challenges NHS to go paperless by 2018
The NHS should go paperless by 2018 to save billions, improve services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will say today. In a speech to the Policy...
View ArticleSugar and calories reduced in soft drinks
Leading soft drinks brands Lucozade, Ribena and J20 are among the latest brands to sign up to the Responsibility Deal’s calorie reduction pledge as part of the government’s drive to curb obesity...
View ArticleUpdate on nutrition and health claims published
An update regarding the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on nutrition and health claims, 11 January 2013, was issued to interested parties on 17 January 2013. Read the update on the working...
View ArticlePiP one year on: thousands of women have turned to NHS for help
One year on since serious problems with PiP breast implants emerged, almost 8,000 women, who had their implants put in privately, have turned to the NHS for help. The latest figures published last week...
View ArticleSummary of cosmetic interventions call for evidence responses published
The responses to the cosmetic surgery review call for evidence have been published today. The call for evidence was issued to enable the public, cosmetic interventions industry and patient groups to...
View Article‘Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.’ campaign to help reduce flu infections
A campaign is launching today to encourage the public to adopt good respiratory and hand hygiene practices – to ‘Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.’ – to help stem flu infections. We are being encouraged to...
View ArticlePersonal health budgets update – Winter 2012
The bumper Winter 2012 edition of ‘Update’, the personal health budgets information sheet, has been published – including all the news about national rollout of the policy across the NHS. This edition...
View ArticleGuidance published on registering a vision impairment as a disability
The department has published information on how to register a vision impairment as a disability. Being registered as partially sighted or blind enables that person to access a range of benefits to help...
View ArticleUpdate on flexibility of wording for health claims published
An update providing recommendations for food business operators about flexibility of wording for health claims, was circulated to interested parties on 3 January 2013. Read the update on general...
View ArticleResources to support information sharing to tackle violence
Hospitals are well placed to promote community safety and wellbeing through collecting information about patients who have been assaulted and sharing information appropriately. This can be done without...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt challenges NHS to go paperless by 2018
The NHS should go paperless by 2018 to save billions, improve services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will say today. In a speech to the Policy...
View ArticleSugar and calories reduced in soft drinks
Leading soft drinks brands Lucozade, Ribena and J20 are among the latest brands to sign up to the Responsibility Deal’s calorie reduction pledge as part of the government’s drive to curb obesity...
View ArticleUpdate on nutrition and health claims published
An update regarding the European Commission’s Working Group meeting on nutrition and health claims, 11 January 2013, was issued to interested parties on 17 January 2013. Read the update on the working...
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