Plans for elderly care scrutiny
Families could be asked to rate social care providers under plans to drive up standards of social care for elderly people in England.
Wayne Gretzky
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Breast cancer women ‘stop drugs’
Breast cancer women ‘stop drugs’
About a third of breast cancer patients stop taking medication because side-effects are more severe than they expect, researchers suggest.
Fears over high-risk surgery care
Fears over high-risk surgery care
The care given to high-risk surgery patients is falling short of acceptable standards, an independent review says.
Kevin Smith
“My Father taught me how to be a man � and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn�t take, he gives; he doesn�t use force, he uses…
Bowel screening ‘does cut deaths’
Bowel screening ‘does cut deaths’
A bowel cancer screening programme in England is on course to cut deaths by a sixth – but some tumours go undetected.
Jeanette Winterson
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
Farrah Gray
“In life we don�t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.”
Private firms ‘to share NHS data’
Private firms ‘to share NHS data’
Private health firms could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records and other NHS data, under plans to be unveiled by David Cameron.
Richard Wagner
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”