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Month: December 2016

Will mobile health apps make GPs redundant?

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Most of the 165,000 mobile health apps available offer advice on diet and fitness but new ones are diagnosing illness…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: apps, Babylon Health, business, Doctors, fitness, GPs, health, Health policy, Healthcare industry, mobile health, monitor, NHS, NHS Choices, Politics, Public services policy, Society, Technology, UK news, your.MD

Developing a new way of doing healthcare

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Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: apps, aptus, babylon, diagnosis, healthcare, Lionsgate, mobile, Mozambique, NHS111, openMRS, your.MD

Cancer, Alzheimer treatments on the verge of a breakthrough

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Greater understanding of genetics and characteristics of diseases are driving the development of new medicines The practice of medicine can…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: alzheimers, astrazenca, Biology, breakthrough, cancer, dna, epigenics, Genetics, health, immunotherapy, new treatment, nucala, olaparib, pfizer, research, Science, Society

Too many women leave hospital after childbirth with PTSD due to bad care

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Gill heard a midwife say, ‘Is she always this much of a drama queen?’ to her husband during a painful…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: birth, child birth, cumberlege, health, mothers, pregnancy, PTSD, report, suicide, trauma, writer

Housing associations cast net widely to find resident-focused recruits

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Housing providers are turning to other customer-facing sectors, including retail, to beef up their customer service skills. Housing associations are…

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Posted in: Public sector, Social Care Filed under: care. associations, housing, social

‘Their body, their data’: how portals can put patients in charge

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Portals let patients see their own medical information through a secure website. But why have they been so slow to…

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Posted in: Health, Public sector Filed under: Brother, data, health, information, medical, portals, websites

‘We’re preparing for the worst’: urban heads await funding changes

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Inner cities are most likely to lose out when the new school funding formula is announced – but leaders don’t…

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Posted in: Education, Public sector Filed under: cuts, Education, funding, headteachers, naht, School funding, Schools, Teacher Network

Meet the female entrepreneurs taking on male-dominated industries

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When only 15% of engineering and technology undergraduates are female, women who work in traditionally male-dominated areas can find it…

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Posted in: Business Filed under: business, engineeering, Entrepreneur, Female, Lifestyle, Network, Small business, Technology, woman, women

Charitable misgivings: fundraising and governance in the voluntary sector

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Charities are coming under increasing scrutiny over their governance and fundraising tactics, just as they are taking on more vital…

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Posted in: Business, Public sector

I thought I was going to prison, I owed the council that much money

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The nightmare for Andrew and Jayne McDonald* began in July 2013, with a letter from their local council. In 2009…

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Posted in: Public sector

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