Suicide prevention strategy launched
The Department of Health has launched a new ‘Preventing suicide in England’ strategy. This new document is the successor to the 2002 Suicide Prevention Strategy, and highlights new challenges and...
View ArticleSelf Care Week: 12-18 November 2012
This national campaign aims to raise awareness of self care among people with long-term conditions and the general public. This year’s theme ‘self care for life – growing older healthily’ focuses on...
View ArticleTelehealth to benefit 100,000 people with long-term conditions
Telehealth services will start to benefit 100,000 people next year, Jeremy Hunt announced at an Age UK conference on 14 November 2012. Telehealth uses information and telecommunications technologies to...
View ArticleNHS Improvement – Seven Day Services Conference, 12 December
NHS Improvement are holding a conference on Seven Day Services at The Hotel Russell, Bloomsbury, London on the 12 December 2012. The focus of the day will be on the importance of seven day services...
View ArticlePersonal health budgets to be rolled out
The roll out of personal health budgets has been announced today by Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb. A personal health budget is an amount of money given to someone, to help them design a package...
View ArticleEarly Occupational Therapy intervention improves recovery after hip surgery
New guidelines on Total Hip Replacement call for early Occupational Therapy intervention to improve recovery after hip replacement surgery. Occupational Therapists are key to helping people get back...
View ArticleAccess to Work
Access to Work is a programme that provides practical and financial support to disabled people and those with a long-term condition to help them overcome barriers to starting or keeping a job. It can...
View ArticleTriangle of Care – bringing professionals, carers and service users together
The Triangle of Care, originally launched as a guide to good practice in acute mental health services in 2010, is the basis for a national project led by the Carers Trust...
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Bowley Close Rehabilitation Centre – bringing services together
Chief Health Professions Officer, Karen Middleton CBE, is pictured during visit to the Bowley Close wheelchair workshop The Bowley Close Rehabilitation Centre, in South London, offers highly...
View Article£5 million for veterans in need of new prosthetics
The Department of Health has £5 million available to spend on new prosthetics centres for veterans in 2013. The money is part of a £22 million package to support veterans’ physical and mental health...
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