Independent think tank Reform says a healthy society will be an essential component of a swift recovery from the recession.
Both government and the private sector acknowledge the need to tackle public health issues and this report reveals a number of examples of best practice in commitment to employee wellness.
Reform’s paper looks at how more of this activity can be encouraged and its success built on to improve Read more »
Over two-thirds of health visitors (69%) feel there is not enough staff in their trust to do their job properly, compared with 45% of NHS staff overall.
More health visitors and district nurses reported that they did not have enough time to do all their work (69% and 58% respectively) than the rest of the NHS (48%).
Health minister Ann Keen said that overall, the survey showed working within the NHS to be a rewarding Read more »
Would Natasha Richardson be alive today if she had gone skiing in the United States instead?
I don’t think it would have made a difference.
To recap the tragedy, Ms. Richardson died from an epidural bleed, after she fell while skiing. Her presentation was somewhat classic, with the well-described “lucid” period before she deteriorated.
According to Canada’s Globe and Mail, “ambulance workers were not called to Ms. Read more »
The idea needed to be given consideration, Mr Johnson argued in a speech on public health at the Royal Society of Arts yesterday.
‘The chief medical officer was right to start a debate about whether there should be a minimum unit price for alcohol, given all we know about the harm that excessive drinking can cause,’ he said.
‘But it’s an idea that needs to be considered very carefully,’ he Read more »
by Randal Pike
Trying to stay on a course of good health every day of the year is not an easy task. But there’s no need to do it alone. Health wellness coaching offers expert guidance to help you obtain or regain good health and wellness practices and sustain them every day. By evaluating your lifestyle, health wellness coaching allows you to take a proactive approach to your health and wellness care.
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In a surprise, President Obama has signaled a willingness to discuss medical liability as part of the health reform process.
Good for him for standing up to the trial lawyers, a core constituency of the left.
That’s a good sign, as the costs of defensive medicine brought on by the broken malpractice system, should be addressed if there is any hope of reducing health care spending.
Trial lawyers like to say that medical Read more »
The movement of “health coaching” is gaining some traction in health care circles.
PookieMD explores the phenomenon, and finds that a health coach, among other duties, “help people clarify their health goals, and implement and sustain behaviors, lifestyles, and attitudes that are conducive to optimal health; guide people in their personal care and health-maintenance activities; and, assist people in reducing the negative impact made on Read more »
If both patients and doctors don’t accept the changes required of their behavior, no amount of comparative effectiveness studies will cut health care spending.
Two prominent medical journalists write as much in their respective blogs.
First, the NY Times’ Tara Parker-Pope notes that patients have to realize that, yes, they should demand the best care possible. However, that means, “we will have to accept that ‘best’ doesn’t Read more »
by Don Bethune
Health is of paramount importance in life. Heath insurance can be used to make the task managing your health easier. To get health insurance, you must find a good company that provides health insurance, and has terms and conditions that are beneficial to you.
To get health insurance is to safeguard against all kinds of accident’s and health issues, which can be both natural as well as intentional. It provides a Read more »
I don’t believe that health care is a right.
That has been debated many times here before, but in reading the ACP’s Bob Doherty, he brings up another reason I hadn’t thought of.
“Once something is defined as a right,” says Mr. Doherty, “it paints people who disagree as wanting to deny those same rights. This places people who have legitimate concern about the role of government in health care in the same category as, say, past Read more »
