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Action Art!
Get active with art this February half term, as the BALTIC art gallery in Gateshead joins forces with NHS North East to promote the Change4Life campaign for a healthier lifestyle.
Britain has among worst cancer survival rates in developed world
Healthcare standards in this country are worse than many former communist states despite billions of pounds of extra funding being pumped into the NHS under Labour, the figures indicate.
Death of Regional Maternity Survey Office founder
Pioneering North East Paediatrician, Dr Edmund Hey, has died.
NTA Report - Drugs/Alcohol
Joint Guidance on Development on Local Protocols between Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services
Joint guidance on Development of Local Protocols bewteen Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services. It is intended to help commissioners and providers to meet existing commitments by providing the latest information and highlighting good practice
Cancer care on the NHS falls behind the rest of Europe
More than nine out of 10 NHS trusts in England are failing to provide a good standard of cancer care compared with other countries, official figures show.
Joint Commissioning Group Team Administrator
JOB PURPOSE
To provide an effective and efficient secretarial, administrative and co-ordination service to the Joint Commissioning Team. To ensure the day to day smooth running of office systems and procedures To act as point of contact for the team To support colleagues within the team as appropriate
Vacancy: Data Manager / Analyst
Vacancy: Data Manager / Analyst TEES PCT/Redcar and Cleveland Community Safety Partnership
JOB PURPOSE
To lead in the data collection and analysis of commissioned services to meet the expectations of the JCG, PCT, NTA, Redcar and Cleveland Partnership and Government office, ensuring that all commissioned partners work together to achieve the objectives set out in local Drug Treatment Plan, Local Area Agreement, Local Delivery Plan and national strategy.
Shooting Up - Infections among injecting drug users in the United Kingdom 2008. An update: October 2009
The report is intended to provide to public health practitioners and those commissioning and providing services to drug users, an overview of the current extent of key infectious diseases among those who inject illicit drugs.
NTA statement on injectable heroin trial
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) has clarified today that contrary to a story in today’s Independent, it is not calling for a nationwide roll-out of ‘shooting galleries’ for injectable heroin.
In line with the government’s Drug Strategy, which called for a range of approaches to tackle drug addiction, an independent expert group has reviewed the interim evidence on injectable heroin following a pilot study, and has recommended to government that there should be further demonstration sites. The NTA has provided the secretariat to the expert group and is scoping out options for taking the research to the next stage. A conference held tomorrow (Tuesday 15th September 2009) by Action on Addiction and the National Addiction Centre will report on the findings from the pilot study.
