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NHS reforms will result in a fragmentation of services around HIV in Hackney and Jonathan McShane, the council’s cabinet member for Health says the implications are “a real worry” for an area with one of the highest HIV infections in the country.
15 May 2012 | East London Lines
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NAT today launches a new report, ‘HIV Testing Action Plan – to reduce late HIV diagnosis in the UK’, outlining steps to increase HIV testing at a time of great change and financial pressure within the NHS.
08 May 2012 | NAT press release
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An NHS body in Wales gets hit with a £70,000 fine after sensitive data is sent to the wrong patient.
01 May 2012 | Tech Week Europe
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The quality indicators focus on prevention, testing and assessment, treatment and support, and service organisation related to hepatitis C infection. We will establish a process for reporting on the quality indicators using data from existing national databases.
30 April 2012 | Health Care Improvement Scotland
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A close relationship exists between long-term physical conditions and mental health and wellbeing. Long-term physical conditions often affect a patient’s mental health, and psychological wellbeing can also have an impact on the effectiveness of treatment for, and a patient’s ability to manage, long-term conditions. Despite this, many individuals do not receive care that addresses both their physical and psychological needs.
25 April 2012 | NHS Confederation
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Gay and bisexual men are neglected and sometimes discriminated against by a health service that tends to focus solely on their sexual health, despite the fact they are more likely to self-harm, attempt suicide and experience depression, according to a major study.
25 April 2012 | The Guardian
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Projects for vulnerable, hard-to-reach teenagers and those at risk of being sexually exploited affected as cuts start to take hold.
24 April 2012 | The Guardian
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Specialist social worker posts have been largely maintained in the face of significant cuts in social care funding for people with HIV/Aids, a survey has found. But the National Aids Trust report raised concerns about a lack of training provided for generic social care staff in supporting the client group in councils that did not employ specialist social workers.
23 April 2012 | Community Care
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Encouragingly, even in a time of severe cuts in local authority funding, the report shows that many local councils still recognise the real social care needs of people with HIV, and aim to meet them. This is largely due to the retaining of an indicative allocation for HIV social care within local council funding from central Government as welll as the powerful case being made for HIV social care at the local level by people with HIV and organisations which support them.
20 April 2012 | NAT press release
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Two years ago Superdrug became the first high street retailer to offer HIV tests through its health clinics run by registered nurses in six stores - since then Superdrug’s nurses have performed over 600 tests. The service will now be available in 19 stores.
26 March 2012 | Pink Paper
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