NHS Direct

Clinicians and industry work together to develop tomorrows innovations.
Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week; 11/22/2009; 911 words; ...Innovations have enlisted the help of NHS intellectual property experts...Surgical Innovations and the NHS. Interaction at this level means...delighted to be able to have such direct engagement with clinicians...specialist support, engaging with the NHS can be a long and difficult process...

Data on portal hypertension risk factors discussed by researchers at University College, NHS Foundation Trust.(Report)
Biotech Week; 11/18/2009; 1215 words; ...the results were compared with HVPG or direct portal pressure measurement." "Systematic...Sgouros and colleagues, University College, NHS Foundation Trust (see also Portal Hypertension...Sgouros, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dept. of Gastroenterology...

Hospital is 'harming dementia patients' Long stays are causing illness to get worse.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England); 11/17/2009; 1033 words; ...questioning more than 2,400 NHS staff and carers, called for the NHS to cut the average hospital stay...patients by one week, saving the NHS at least pounds 80m a year...with dementia that was not a direct result of the medical condition...

Folly of closing village schools; your LETTERS.(Letters)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/17/2009; 439 words; ...council's official position to deny that, there are several direct quotes from individual councillors which clarify their undeclared...cancer, the treatment of which will cause further drainage on NHS funds leading to less for education: 'so it goes', to quote...

Treated like a hypochondriac; Your Say.(Features)
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England); 11/17/2009; 454 words; ...an emergency appointment and they advised me to ring NHS Direct. I had been very ill for three days with high temperature...X-ray which confirmed his diagnosis of pneumonia. NHS Direct is useful, but over the phone consultation does not...