Cases of dengue fever and chikungunya imported to the UK rose sharply last year, Health Protection...are available. The HPA advises travellers to ensure they take necessary precautions against mosquito bites when ... commonly among people in their 20s and were most commonly reported in travellers returning from India ... . Individuals diagnosed with chikungunya had most often travelled to India. In fact, compared with 2009 ...
of residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, UK research suggests....Researchers from the Health Protection Agency studied data from the Malaria Reference Laboratory ... travelling to malaria endemic areas increased from 593,000 visits in 1987 to 2.6 million visits in 2004. A large proportion of these visitors were from ethnic minorities travelling to see friends and relatives ...
The BMA is calling on PCTs to improve gypsy and traveller communities' access to GP services....These communities are among the most discriminated against in the NHS, according to a DoH consultation launched as part of its Pacesetters Programme, which aims to tackle health inequalities. It says that 'GPs often do not accept members of these communities onto their lists or refuse treatment', leaving ...
' travel passes. GPs in Kensington and Chelsea have been asked by council officials to review patients with mental health conditions and disabilities every two to five years, and inform the council when ... GPs to police these travel cards.' A letter sent to practices by Kensington and Chelsea Council ...
Sexual health must be included in the quality framework if GPs are to provide services recommended...and during travel immunisation. Patients at high risk of STIs should then be offered one-to-one discussions ... health counselling. Very few practices will have personnel trained in sexual health counselling who can ... should provide sexual health advice for vulnerable young people aged under 18, with a focus ...
guarantee from prime minister David Cameron that he was open to changing the Health Bill, GP can reveal...significant changes to its plans to avoid a defeat for the Health Bill in the House of Lords. However ... 'major change in the direction of travel' was unlikely. A senior GP adviser to the DoH warned that GP ... the Health Bill. He said Mr Cameron sees the exercise as an opportunity to create a 'stronger Bill'. 'I ...
Sexual health must be included in the quality framework if GPs are to provide services recommended...and during travel immunisation. Patients at high risk of STIs should then be offered one ... health counselling. Very few practices will have personnel trained in sexual health counselling who ... that GPs should provide sexual health advice for vulnerable young people aged under 18, with a focus ...
Football fans travelling via Kenya to South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup must be vaccinated..., the HPA said. Advice and information about health risks associated with travel to South Africa are available at the National Travel Health Network and Centre website (www.nathnac.org). The advice follows a ... There is no risk of yellow fever in South Africa. But travellers to parts of Kenya are considered ...
LMC representatives have no confidence in health secretary Patricia Hewitt, but who do they want...passing a vote of no confidence in the government s handling of the NHS. Whether health secretary ... came to Norfolk and gave a speech when she had just taken over as health secretary and she was very ... by Milburn and Reid and build upon them. It has been quite clear that the main strategy for health is being ...
Wimbledon GP Dr Paul Cundy (above) won a national motorsport title this year after competing at top English racetracks at speeds of up to 145mph.
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