Latest National News
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NHS Direct points patients to online advice during strike
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Strike 'not expect to affect urgent NHS care'
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Watchdog NICE says no to eye drug Lucentis for diabetes
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Scan can spot 'curable cause of high blood pressure'
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Bowel cancer patients dying due to lack of surgeons
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Some NHS hospitals should perform fewer procedures, senior figure warns
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Hospitals guide: trusts accused of 'risky and irresponsible' nursing levels
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One in four patients say their local hospital is not up to standard
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Centenarians 'healthier than younger pensioners'
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Norovirus present in 76% of British oysters, research finds
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Hospital patients 'more likely to die at weekends'
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Brain find sheds light on autism
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Bring your own private nurse if you’re in an NHS hospital
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Cancer study reveals 'faulty genes'
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Home birth 'carries higher risk' for first-time mothers
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Switch in cervical cancer vaccine
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GPs miss the first signs of cancer in a THIRD of cases
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Machine that is a breath of fresh air for sleeping asthmatics can reduce their symptoms
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DH tightens the screws with uncompromising NHS operational plan for 2012
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Dreaming 'eases painful memories’
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The return of electric shock therapy?
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£30m expansion plans will create 72 extra beds at children’s hospital
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DH plans to purge up to 2.5m patients from GP lists
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Paracetamol warning: 'Slightly too much can cause overdose'
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Eating canned soup 'poses a chemical risk'
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Cancer sufferers are surviving six times longer than in 1971
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E. coli baby deaths investigated in Swansea
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Why the UK needs a surgical intervention in training
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Four cups of coffee a day 'can help prevent womb cancer' - even if they're decaff
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Patients at risk as referral gateway triages TIAs and 'breast symptoms'
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Cancer survival: Macmillan hails major improvement
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Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes'
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Aids-related deaths 'down 21% from peak', says UNAids
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How audio recordings can help patients navigate cancer treatment
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Snow joke over chilling warning to get a flu jab
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GP practices to take industrial action over pensions on 30 November
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Cancer drug Avastin loses US approval
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Designs help combat hospital bugs
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Nearly 50,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
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Cancer Research UK begins DNA matching research
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Video: Patients help with pioneering cancer research
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Antibiotics "will not cure viruses"
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UK trials for new blood transfusion protocols
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Can crowdsourcing beat the flu?
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Big boost to patient safety as NHS staff flu vaccinations almost triple this year
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Half of doctor’s surgeries contaminated by super-bug
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First rise in patients on mixed wards since ban
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Thousands left for a year on 'hidden' NHS waiting lists
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New peptide 'could tackle ovarian cancer'
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NHS: Crackdown on 'hidden waiting' ordered by ministers
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Go to work on an egg – and it’ll keep you awake! Advice of the 80s was correct as experts say 'ditch the sugar rush'
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'Surgeons opened my skull and my head exploded!' Student, 20, makes amazing recovery after doctors operate on life-long brain tumour
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Flu jab for all children is ruled out because it won't be 'cost effective'
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Government obesity panel quietly abolished
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Banker behind private hospital revolution pledges patient power
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Warning as operation follow-ups cut
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Weight loss surgery investigated
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Sheffield hospitals strike alert: Plans to just treat emergencies
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Fraudsters fleecing NHS of £3bn a year: Bosses 'look the other way' as vast sums are stolen
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Ban smoking in cars, says British Medical Association
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Liver implant gives boy 'another chance of life'
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Stem cell trial halted
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NHS Direct app downloaded 1m times
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Cancer 'kills more poorer people'
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Nurses could strike in row over pension
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A&E waits at winter levels
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Is oral contraceptive pill fuelling prostate cancer?
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Cardiac cells 'heal heart damage'
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Ministers 'must release' secret NHS report
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Teenager has operation in two hospitals at same time
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Gene mutation raises skin cancer risk
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Cancer mother first to give birth following chemotherapy after pregnant bump encased in 1.5-tonne lead shield
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Teenage girl in 'waking coma' after anti-cancer jab
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Study links Parkinson's disease to industrial solvent
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UK air pollution 'puts lives at risk'
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Skin transformed for cancer fight
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Lansley threatens to sack NHS chiefs who ration care to save money
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Food safety warning after two in hospital with botulism
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Home fever is the new hayfever
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Flu season guide lets GP track workload impact
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RCGP chairwoman warns commissioners could 'outsource' care for high-cost patients
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Working from home 'exhausting'
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GPs prescribe £15m painkillers
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Malaria vaccine could be developed within two years, after scientists find disease’s Achilles heel
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Vaccine could reduce HIV to 'minor infection'
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Speedy gene test helps tailor 'smart drugs' for individual cancer patients
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New hope for head injury patients
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Beat the clock and extend your lifespan
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Parents’ fresh hope in heart unit battle
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When the stiff upper lip could be deadly: A third of Britons put off going to the doctor
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NICE publishes quality improvement guide on preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections
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Parkinson's disease symptoms 'can be improved by teaching patients to regulate their brains'
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Lack of female CCG leaders puts future success of NHS at risk, report finds
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Cervical cancer vaccines may cut need for screening
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The strange and curious history of lobotomy
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NHS cancer diagnosis waiting times down, figures show
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Painkillers cost the NHS in England £442m a year
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NHS hospital wins legal fight over children's heart surgery
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Dementia cases expected to rise by one third
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GPs handed £700m in first step of NHS reform
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Mouthwash recalled over bacteria fears
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Angina treatment 'increases heart attack severity'
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Patients to be allowed to remain registered with family doctors after moving home
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Fears of new deadly super-flu which 'could spread to Britain within 24 hours'
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Kidney transplants: there is a need for more living donors
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Presumed consent organ donation to be Welsh law by 2015
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Will an NHS 'information revolution' really happen?
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Restrictions on gay men blood donations lifted
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Contact lens with a microchip to spot glaucoma: New breakthrough in leading cause of blindness
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Receptionists 'key' to safe repeat prescription process
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Remember to get your flu jab
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Cancer 'behind 40% of early deaths'
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Superbug drugs can increase infection, reveals new study
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Breakthrough could lead to treatment for symptoms of growing old
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Two glasses of wine a day could increase breast cancer risk by 50 per cent
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Cherry juice can help get a good night's sleep
