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Latest news on how changes in the NHS affect patient care. Private medicine, scientific advances and controversies over new drugs and treatments. Special investigations. Primary Format : Health Language : Unknown Also Listed as: State/Province : ENG Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of You and Yours - Health Podcasts Methings.com listings of You and Yours - Health Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

YYHealth: Bottled Water Are you drinking as much bottled water as you used to? According to the most recent Britvic soft drinks report, sales have fallen by 9% year on year. Various factors are at play here…the cost compared with tap water, the environmental impact of the bottled varieties, and recent newspaper campaigns urging us to ask for tap rather than bottled in restaurants. But the bottled water industry takes a different view. Julian Worricker talks to Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at London Met ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Smoking Ban Smokers can no longer light up in restaurants, the workplace or most other public places. And the trend for change in this country in recent times is being mirrored elsewhere…and in some places it’s being taken further. For example, Belgian politician Patrik Vanrunkelsven has tabled a proposal which has divided his country and is due to be discussed by the Belgian parliament which says that people won’t be able to smoke in their own homes if children are there. Our reporter Melanie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Care Quality Commission 09 Apr 09 Cynthia Bower is the first chief executive of the Care Quality Commission which has just begun its work as a super-regulator of health and care services. It’s been formed out of the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission. She speaks to Winifred Robinson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Health MOTs 09 Apr 09 The government says GPs must now offer health checks to everyone in England aged 40-75 to try to prevent conditions like heart disease and stroke. But some doctors say they’ll have to test many healthy people to detect very few cases – and that other healthcare services may suffer as a result. Guests: Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, GP, author and trustee of ‘Sense about Science’, a charitable trust. Dr Bill Kirkup, Associate Medical Director, Department of Health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: End of life How much is medical opinion out of step with public opinion when it comes to end of life issues? Well a survey of nearly four thousand doctors, commissioned by a group of UK charities and published today, showed that around two thirds of them were opposed to euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. By contrast the most recent British Social Attitudes survey showed 82% of the public to be in favour of legalising euthanasia, and 62 % backing physician-assisted suicide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Cancer link to night shift work? 16 March 2009 The Danish government has begun paying compensation to women who have developed breast cancer after long spells working nights. It follows a finding by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the UN's World Health Organisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Power of Attorney Delays at the Office of the Public Guardian are causing problems for some people trying to obtain lasting power of attorney - the legal ability to look after the financial affairs of loved ones who are incapacitated by illness such as dementia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Extended GP surgery hours Seven out of ten GP surgeries in England now offer extended opening hours. By ‘extended’ they mean open beyond the hours of 8am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. If you live in England but haven’t noticed much difference it is probably because most surgeries have added only three hours to the basic schedule and some have kept pretty quite about it too. We discuss the pros and cons of extended hours. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Rheumatoid arthritis and NHS targets Doctors say they are sometimes having to pretend their existing rheumatoid arthritis patients are new sufferers when they need to get them seen by a specialist. We hear from the Department of Health and Professor David Scott, a consultant rheumatologist and chief medical advisor to the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, for their views. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Southern Cross The UK’s largest care home provider is fined after a resident’s death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Generic Drugs, 08 Jan 09 The Department of Health and manufacturers have reached an agreement that aims to bring down the drugs bill for the NHS. Guests: Lionel Winston David Fisher, Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries / Dr Bill Beeby, British Medical Association Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYHealth: Cynthia Bower, 22 Dec 08 Peter White interviews the head of the Care Quality Commission, the new inspectorate that, from April, will be responsible for monitoring health care, social care, mental health services, the NHS, and care homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website