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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Do you often get a little anxious, and reach for a cigarette to help relieve that anxiety? Well scientists now say that giving up the habit altogether could be the real treatment for curbing that anxious feeling. Scientists wrote in the British Journal of Psychiatry about how they followed nearly 500 smokers attending National Health Service (NHS) stop smoking clinics in England. They found a "significant" decrease in anxiety levels...
LONDON, November 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In times of Public-sector cuts, Medicspro, the UK's leading Nursing Recruitment Agency, is bucking the trend, announcing increased roles and opportunities for Nurse Jobs in the UK. Medicspro provides general Nursing Jobs [http://www.medicspro.com/nursing-jobs.cms.asp ], NHS Nurse Jobs and wider roles for NHS Professionals in general for a rapidly expanding Client base that now spans the Public sectors as well as the Private...
SHREWSBURY, England, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continued Collaboration with Leading Clinical and Research University Hospital Provides Leading-Edge Research in Clinical Radiation Oncology Workflow Oncology Systems Limited UK (OSL), innovators in radiation therapy solutions, announced today the signing of a multi-year research and collaboration agreement with The UHB Radiotherapy Department and the Medical Physics Department. UHB researchers play a vital role in...
LONDON, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the UK's largest teaching trusts and its largest university library system to provide Elsevier's pioneering 'Clinical Insight Engine' for hospital staff, researchers and clinical medical students Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that it has signed a one-year agreement with Oxford University Hospitals NHS...
But high prescription volume and cost mean everyone needs to know how to use these devices correctly, says DTB Healthcare professionals are as bad as patients when it comes to knowing how to use inhalers prescribed for asthma and other respiratory conditions correctly, says an editorial in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). They therefore can't be relied on to teach patients how to use these devices correctly, says DTB. But as 45 million prescriptions for respiratory inhalers were...
HELSINKI, September 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ixonos [http://www.ixonos.com ] is breaking new ground by bringing NHS Choices [http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx ] syndicated content to new mobile platforms. NHS Choices is the United Kingdom's number one health information service. Ixonos has used its mobile software experience, cloud hosting facilities and mashup capabilities to bring NHS Choices health content to new mobile platforms for the first time. (Logo:...
LONDON, August 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In May 2012 the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust launched a personal online health record system for patients. The ultimate aim of the new system is to empower patients to be better informed not only about their health conditions but also about the service pathways available to them. In an interview with the Healthcare IT Exchange, Mike Denis, Director of Information Strategy at South London and Maudsley NHS...
Nurse led group clinics could save £100,000 a year or more, researchers claim The researchers base their findings on 90 patients with knee osteoarthritis, who were referred for group acupuncture to two knee pain clinics in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 2008 and subsequently monitored for two years. The clinics were set up in 2008 for NHS patients, and run in two GP practices by specially trained acupuncture nurses, to see whether this could improve care, while reducing costs, and offer...
WILMSLOW, England, August 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The deadline is approaching for families who have wrongly paid care home fees for sick relatives; but as a result, a rising number of 'rogue' solicitors and claims management companies are making rash claims. An increasing amount of non-specialist law firms and organisations are warning thousands of families that they could be missing out on reclaiming unfairly paid fees and they are claiming miraculous results in the...
LONDON, July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Barts Health NHS Trust, the largest National Health Service Trust in England, has selected OnBase, Hyland Software's enterprise content management (ECM) solution, to streamline electronic patient records (EPR). The Trust required an ECM solution that would reduce the time and money spent managing and storing paper patient records while streaming clinical workflows to improve productivity. (Logo:...
