When over 55-year-olds were asked what they thought their chances were of acquiring an STI from unprotected sex, 25% believed it was ‘next to nothing’ compared with 13% of 18-24 year olds.
Heidi Wright, head of practice at the RPSGB, said: ‘The majority of safe sex messages are targeted at teenagers, but as more adults begin new relationships later in life, they quite clearly need advice too.’
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Currently, GPs are not allowed to sell OTC medicines to patients in order to ensure that decisions to recommend medicines are based solely on clinical factors.
But the newspaper says that it has seen a Whitehall document showing that ministers have backed the plans.
As part of a review of the rules on pharmacies and the NHS, the DoH carried out an impact assessment of a move to allow doctors to sell OTC medical products Read more »
At the GPC monthly meeting last week, members voted unanimously in favour of a motion deploring the move.
As the vote was announced, NHS Connecting for Health announced it had issued guidance to PCTs involved in piloting the record system making clear patients ‘do not need to appear in person in order to opt out’.
The GPC motion says: ‘The GPC condemns any PCT or government organisation which requires 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 »
Dave Prentis, Unison general secretary, said: ‘The rapid push to move 25,000 workers out of NHS and local government into social enterprises is an alarming direction for the government to be going in.
‘With the private finance markets set to become even more volatile and the dole queues rising daily, the government needs to focus on securing jobs and services. They should not be hiving public services off into small organisations Read more »
At present, those facing such accusations are placed on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) and Protection of Children Act (POCA) lists before their guilt has been established.
Many are only cleared after spending a year or more barred from work while they wait for their case to be heard.
But, in a test case this week, the Law Lords unanimously ruled that placing workers on such black lists was in breach of the European Read more »
Writing for GP, MDDUS medico-legal adviser and head of professional services Dr Jim Rodger says: ‘Sometimes doctors can be too helpful.
‘Going that extra mile’ for patients often backfires and can cause more trouble for the doctor than they could ever imagine.
‘We have examples of doctors who have gone to extraordinary lengths to see a patient referred, even hand-delivering letters to homes after Read more »
The editorial says it is astonishing that ‘the makers of the very products that contribute to obesity’ are providing 200m of sponsorship for the ‘Change4Life’ campaign.
‘Nobody doubts that innovative ways are urgently needed to achieve behaviour change at a population level for the prevention of an impending obesity epidemic and its related threats to health,’ it says.
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They show that 21.4 million was spent on reinforced beds, 11 million on specialist operating tables, 7.4 million on specialist ambulances and 2.2 million on reinforced trolleys.
Conservative shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said: ‘Labour has shown such complacency when it comes to tackling Britain’s ticking obesity timebomb.
‘Labour’s record has been one of obesity targets missed and scrapped, Read more »
The pledge was made by health minister for GPs Ben Bradshaw in a recent letter to shadow Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley.
Labour ministers today wrote to their Conservative counterparts asking whether they would support David Cameron’s cuts to key investment projects that Labour has brought forward to help the UK through the current economic downturn.
The Tories voted against the government’s pre-budget Read more »
