-
-
-
- Subscribe For News Letter
Get New Post Notification via Email:
-
-
-
-
-
Nov
8th
8th
NHS is spending more than £440 million in a year on painkillers, according to new analysis it is the biggest bill in the north. England data shows, health trust spends £8.80 an average per head on the population on drugs treating pain, with some doctors even giving patients Lemsip and Anadin on their prescription.
Data analysis firm SSentif examined the year for 2010/11 from the NHS and head of population’s data from Office for National Statistics.
Researchers found that the overall NHS has spent on painkillers in the year 2010/11 was over £442 million. On northern cities and towns, the cost per head was as high as £15, dropping in some parts of the south to just £3.26 per head. According to analysis, the highest spend was in Middlesbrough, Rochdale, Blackpool and Hartlepool, with prescriptions of painkillers billed on primary care trust averages to £2.3m each.
The figures doubled more than the prescription in Twickenham and Richmond, Camdem and Westminster primary care trust (PCT’s), in despite of lower populations. The analysis also showed that PCT spents thousands prescribing over-the-counter painkillers and branded flu and cold medicines such as Beechams, Anadin, Lemsip and Panadol. PCt’s spent just over £3,000 between January and June on Prescriptions for flu and cold remedies and more than £59,000 on prescribing over-the-counter painkillers.
The research also looked at any links between prescribing painkillers, older age and deprivation (over 65 yrs). Found strong correlations in between prescribing painkillers and age in south but didn’t find no link with deprivation.
You may also like:
Alarming Cyber Attacks on the UK Are On The Rise
Eurozone debt crisis: UK ‘ready to give more to IMF’
The government is willing to give more money to International Monetary Fund that could help struggling Eurozone nations.
Prime Minister David Cameron will meet with leaders of the G20 in France to discuss the crisis in the eurozone. He proposes measures to strengthen the G20 group of nations. He said that it has become even more urgent to put meat on the bones of this plan to show that we’re removing one of the key obstacles to global growth, which is the failure to agree a proper plan to deal with problems in the eurozone. The UK currently provides £29bn ($46bn) of the IMF’s £600bn ($950bn) lending capacity.
Efforts of France and Germany have warned that the next 8bn euro (£7bn) of rescue loans for Greece will be withheld until after a bailout referendum, expected in early December.
The International Monetary Fund, to which Britain is the largest contributor, made clear its willingness to intervene and improve the bailout fund in the euro area.
You may also like:
Reading To Your Child Is Always In Season
This is what the director of communications intelligence of the agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) has said, that UK has been on a troubling cyber security threats these days.
It was described as “significant but unsuccessful” attempts by the experts. This massive cyber security usually targets the U.S. government and U.N. computers and other sensitive data on many firms. Like, for instance, government emails that if opened will the “Zeus” computer virus will then direct you to a link and attacked the machine. This situation is alarming because if this case of cyber-espionage will continue, it will cause massive power outages, then leading to a disruption in the economy and could create a national trauma.
Security experts are already into this and they said that the biggest series of cyber attacks to date involves the infiltration on the networks of 72 organizations globally and they are already taking this cyber warfare threat seriously enough.
You may also like:
Are We Going Over The Top With The Security?
Reading To Your Child Is Always In Season
Boots Your Mental Health This Autumn
While most of the countries, including England, suffer recession everyone is afraid what the future can bring us. And here is one more thing which might make us even more stressed.
A move to allow employers to sack underperforming workers, without explanation, is the key recommendation in the Downing Street report leaked to The Daily Telegraph.
It says that British workers should be banned from claiming unfair dismissal so that firms and public sector bodies can find more capable replacements.
Under current regulations, workers are allowed to “coast along” and employers are left fearful of expanding because new staff may prove “unknown quantities” who are impossible to sack, the report says.
However, Mr Adrian Beecroft- the capitalist and Tory donor, warns that simply scrapping the law would be “politically unacceptable”. He therefore recommends a replacement regulation, called Compensated No Fault Dismissal, which would allow employers to sack unproductive staff with basic redundancy pay and notice.
Mr Beecroft concedes that a “downside” under his new scheme is that employers could fire staff because they “did not like them”. He also insists that making it easier for firms to sack under-performing staff will boost employment, rather than increase unemployment.
Shall we start worrying about our future in the organisation? The hit may come if not today then tomorrow.
You may also like:
Economic Downturn To Blame For Increased Number Of Baby Girls
Are We Going Over The Top With The Security?
There’s no doubt that all the parents worried about their children. They also expect others to look after them as for their own kids. But how will you find yourself in situation where you, a parent, are questioned by staff members about taking a photo of your own kid in the shopping centre?
It happened to Chris White at the busy Braehead shopping centre, near Glasgow. He was approached by the security guard who claims that taking photos is “illegal”. Photos not somebody else but his own daughter, Hazel, eating an ice cream. You thing: is it overprotection or just act of stupidity?
Mr White claimed that, when he was interviewed by police, an officer warned him that anti-terrorism powers meant his camera phone could be confiscated.
A spokesperson for Breahead said it wanted to “maintain a safe and enjoyable environment for shoppers”.
In response Mr White set up a Facebook page called “Boycott Braehead” which, by Tuesday morning, had been “liked” by more than 21,000 people.
Same day we have quick respond: the Braehead shopping centre owner changes UK photographs policy: customers will be able to take photographs at several UK shopping centres. Capital Shopping Centres said the new rules would apply immediately to its 11 UK shopping centres.
If you’ve ever wondered how safe you and your family could be in big shopping centres, the truth is not easy to guess. Shall we feel overwhelmed or scared? Will you try your luck to find out?
You may also like:
Reading To Your Child Is Always In Season
10 Things Teachers Would Like Parents To
Boots Your Mental Health This Autumn
Oct
27th
27th
My daily journey to work includes public transport. Today morning, while on the train a woman next to me suddenly sniffed. Reaction: all surrenders move a few inches away. I felt my stress level rising: flu! It’s started!
For most people, flu is unpleasant but not serious. You will usually recover within a week. However, certain people are at greater risk of developing serious complications of flu, such as bronchitis and pneumonia. These conditions may require hospital treatment.
A Department of Health spokesman said: “Vaccination is the best line of defence against flu’.
But here comes a reality: scientists who had been studying 40 years of research say the current batch of vaccines do not offer adequate protection against seasonal flu outbreaks or pandemics and is only 59% effective in healthy adults.
Dr Michael Osterholm, one of the authors of the study published in the journal The Lancet, said: ‘an urgent need for a new generation of more highly effective and cross-protective vaccines that can be manufactured rapidly’.
Anyway, of a test group of 2,000 people half said they would go in to work for fear of repercussions from bosses due to the economic downturn.
You may also like:
Boost Your Mental Health This Autumn
Report Advises: Sack Unproductive Workers
Oct
25th
25th
Last weekend, while I was in the shopping centre, I have noticed a lots of Halloween decoration. This make me realised that it is less than a week of time until Halloween’s Monday. It is mean: Halloween party!
But start from the roots: the name Halloween comes from All Hallow Even which mean the eve (night before) All Hallow day. Hallow is an archaic English word for ‘saint’. Therefore, Halloween is the eve of All Saints Day.
What we do and why we do in England on the day?
There are several traditional things like pumpkin lanterns (also known as Jack-o-lantern) according to an Irish legend named after a man name Jack who could enter neither hell nor heaven and had to walk the earth with the lantern until Judgment Day.
There is also tradition of dressing up with strong European and Celtic roots. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghost come back to the earth, people- to avoid being recognized by ghost- would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghost would mistake them for fellow spirits.
Furthermore: Trick or Treat, many parts of England still recognises Halloween as a Mischief Night- when children would knock to the doors demanding a treat. People would disguise themselves as witches, ghosts, kelpies and spunkies, in order to obtain food and money from nervous householders.
It is nice tradition, especially for children. All the family may have loads of fun organising Hallowing parties, cooking special food and drinks, dressing up as creative as possible. So why don’t give the Halloween green (ups, I mean orange!) light to go?
You may also like:
Reading To Your Child Is Always In Season
Oct
24th
24th
Six weeks gone fast and first half term this school year arrived quicker than we could expected. As a working parent I have a little less problem how to deal with children staying home but for some it could be quite a challenge.
It’s easy – well, easyish – to keep toddlers entertained when the sun’s shining. A dig in the sandpit, a toddle round the park, a bit of fruit picking and your day is full. It gets a little more challenging, however, when the days shorten and the home comforts of central heating and CBeebies beckon.
Yet autumn, despite the damp mornings and dark afternoons, is the perfect time to get young children out and about. With the credit crunch attacking our finances we need to keep it cheap! But never fear; there are loads of things to do if you keep your ear to the ground, and much of it is free, too. Check out these tips:
- 1. Craft: with Halloween ahead you may find it easy and funny (also a bit messy)
- 2. Baking: always great fun and such a great variety of choices: cakes, pizzas, sponges…
- 3. Galleries and museums: check in your local papers for free entry
- 4. Youth hostelling: back to your childhood, always exiting
- 5. Nature walks: Whether you live in the city or the country a walk can be spruced up with a specific nature focus
- 6. Exercise together: you can jog, you can bike ride or just get fit while exercising at home
- 7. Movie night: better at the cinema but even at home watching movie could be a fun.
Remember: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
You may also like:
10 Things Teachers Would Like Parents To Know
Reading To Your Child Is Always In Season
Oct
21st
21st
When the cold autumn days come the thing which most of us would like to do is to stay under nice, worm blanket do for all day long. To add the pleasure to it: with delicious food cooked just for us.
As the cold season started we might thing that we have a limited variety of choices in vegetables to use for cooking. But is that right?
To name just a few which jump into my head: apples, cranberry, cauliflowers, brussels sprouts, sweet corns, pears, plums, sweet potatoes, and one of my favourite this season: butternut squash.
The squash has long been an established part of the diet in each of the five continents. Its exact origin is not clear but it is thought that it was eaten in the Americas over 5,000 years ago. It is known to have been cultivated by the Incas in the fifteenth century and remains a very important source of food throughout much of central and South America.
It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orange, and becomes sweeter and richer. Reach in vitamins, nutritious, low in saturated fat and sodium butternut squash could be well balanced food source.
Treat yourself this autumn and cook the butternut squash risotto: for vegetarian as the main dish, for meat-lover (as myself) with the nice piece of grilled chicken.
You may also like:
Boost Your Mental Health This Autumn
By in Health Care
November 09, 2011 - 01:12 pm
Michael Jackson’s doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted Monday of manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.
Dr. Murray sat stone faced during the trial and was handcuffed and taken into custody without bail until sentencing on 29 November. He appeared calm as officials removed him from the room. A cry broke the eerie silence in the packed courtroom when the verdict was read, and the crowd erupted outside the courtroom. Jubilant supporters cheered and sang Jackson’s “Beat It” and carrying signs reading: “guilty” and “murderer.” Passing motorists sounded their horns. There was no law against the administration of propofol or other sedatives. But expert witnesses said Murray was performing well below the standard of care required of a physician. They said the use of propofol in a home without rescue equipment on hand was a gross deviation from the norm. They called gross negligence, the legal basis for a charge of manslaughter.
You may also like:
Eurozone debt crisis: UK ‘ready to give more to IMF’
Alarming Cyber Attacks on the UK Are On The Rise
Report Advises: Sack Unproductive Workers