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Doctors' fury as NICE bans ?2-a-day heart drug that could help 40,000 patients
An NHS ban on a heart drug costing just ?2 a day could put thousands of lives at risk, doctors said yesterday. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has blocked the first new drug in 25 years to treat atrial fibrillation - a type of abnormal heartbeat affecting more than one million in Britain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rt-drug-dronedarone-help-40-000-patients.html
All hospital patients 'to be checked for risk of potentially fatal blood clot'
All hospital patients in England are to be assessed for their risk of suffering a potentially fatal blood clot in a move which could save more than 10,000 lives a year. From April hospitals face losing money if they do not check patients, after the Chief Medical Officer declared cutting the number of deaths from the condition was a "priority". Blood clots are thought to kill more than 25,000 hospital patients annually, many more than hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA and C. difficile.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...for-risk-of-potentially-fatal-blood-clot.html
Council plans 'fat tax' to fund crematorium improvements
A council has unveiled plans to charge a "fat tax" to grieving families paying for cremations in order to fund improvements. A report by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has found an increasing number of cases where bodies will not fit properly in furnaces at Kent and Sussex Crematorium. At present bodies which are too big to be dealt with have to be transported to larger crematoria which can accommodate them in south London or Sittingbourne.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...fat-tax-to-fund-crematorium-improvements.html
An NHS ban on a heart drug costing just ?2 a day could put thousands of lives at risk, doctors said yesterday. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has blocked the first new drug in 25 years to treat atrial fibrillation - a type of abnormal heartbeat affecting more than one million in Britain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rt-drug-dronedarone-help-40-000-patients.html
All hospital patients 'to be checked for risk of potentially fatal blood clot'
All hospital patients in England are to be assessed for their risk of suffering a potentially fatal blood clot in a move which could save more than 10,000 lives a year. From April hospitals face losing money if they do not check patients, after the Chief Medical Officer declared cutting the number of deaths from the condition was a "priority". Blood clots are thought to kill more than 25,000 hospital patients annually, many more than hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA and C. difficile.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...for-risk-of-potentially-fatal-blood-clot.html
Council plans 'fat tax' to fund crematorium improvements
A council has unveiled plans to charge a "fat tax" to grieving families paying for cremations in order to fund improvements. A report by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council has found an increasing number of cases where bodies will not fit properly in furnaces at Kent and Sussex Crematorium. At present bodies which are too big to be dealt with have to be transported to larger crematoria which can accommodate them in south London or Sittingbourne.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...fat-tax-to-fund-crematorium-improvements.html
