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Council includes service users when choosing care providers

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In Oxfordshire, people who use supported accommodation and their families sit on panels to select who delivers their care. Brian…

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Posted in: Public sector, Social Care Filed under: accommodation, Disability, grants, learning disability, living, Local government, Oxford, Personalisation, providers, Social care, Social Care Network, Society, submarine, supported, Work practices, yellow

Scrapping bursaries for occupational therapy students

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Bursaries for OT undergraduates are about to disappear, so university students will need to apply for loans Student places on…

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Posted in: Education, Social Care Filed under: abolished, brunel, Careers, degree, expenses, funding, grants, Healthcare Network, Homecare, Social care, Social Care Network, Society, students, Work practices

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

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

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