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Unexpected deaths of mental health patients under NHS care ROCKET over last three years

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UNEXPECTED deaths among mental health patients under NHS care have soared over the last three years, according to new figures.</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The number of deaths has rocketed by more than a fifth</td></tr>
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<section class="text-description">The number of deaths has rocketed by more than a fifth while serious serious incidents - which require an investigation - have shot up 34 per cent to 8,139 in 2014-2015.</section><section class="text-description">The shocking data - obtained under Freedom of Information laws - also shows the number of mental health patients attempting or committing suicide has risen by a staggering 26 per cent since 2012-13 to 751 last year.</section><section class="pull-quote on-right"><blockquote class="nointellitxt ctx_blocked" id="nointellitxt">
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            Significant numbers of unexpected deaths at the Mid Staffs NHS trust caused an outcry        </div>
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</section><section class="text-description">Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former mental health minister under the coalition government, said some services were "struggling to cope" and had been left "threadbare" by underfunding.</section><section class="text-description">He said: "Significant numbers of unexpected deaths at the Mid Staffs NHS trust caused an outcry and these figures should cause the same because they show a dramatic increase in the number of people losing their lives.</section><section class="text-description">"NHS England and the Government should set up an investigation into the cause of this as these figures involve tragedies for families around the country and the human impact is intense."</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">The figures, from NHS England, which cover 58 mental health trusts, show the number of serious incidents has risen year-on-year from 6,074 in 2012-13 and 7,345 in 2013-14.</section><section class="text-description">There were 1,713 unexpected deaths of in-patients or those cared for at home during 2014-15 - up 21 per cent from 1,412 in 2012-13.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb claims that a lack of funding is the issue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered a review into the NHS trust last month</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">It comes amid mounting pressure on the health service to improve the way patient deaths are investigated and reported.</section><section class="text-description">Last month Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered a review into NHS trusts following a report into Southern Health, which showed the trust had failed to probe the deaths of hundreds of people since 2011.</section><script async src="//
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Unexpected deaths of mental health patients under NHS care ROCKET over last three years

UNEXPECTED deaths among mental health patients under NHS care have soared over the last three years, according to new figures. The ...

Number of UK diabetics reaches all time high and has the potential to 'cripple' the NHS

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THE amount of people living with diabetes in the UK has reached record heights and could place an incredible strain on NHS, reveals shocking research.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the first time ever, the number of diabetic Britons has topped four million</td></tr>
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For the first time ever, the number of diabetic Britons has topped four million - an increase of over 60 per cent in a decade.</div>
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Data analysed by Diabetes UK, shows 4.05million people are now living with the life-threatening condition - this includes 3.5m adults who have been officially diagnosed and some 549,000 people are also believed to have Type 2 diabetes but are currently undiagnosed.</div>
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Figures have shot up 119,965 on last year’s figures and increased by 65 per cent in just a decade.</div>
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If this worrying trend continues, an estimated five million people will have diabetes by 2025 - bringing with it a very serious public health risk.</div>
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Type 2 diabetes is linked to unhealthy lifestyles, including obesity. </div>
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Experts have called for a concerted effort led by the Government to take active steps to address the fact that almost two in every three people in the UK are overweight or obese and are therefore at increased risk of Type 2 diabetes.</div>
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Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: "With four million people in the UK now living with diabetes, the need to tackle this serious health condition has never been so stark or so urgent.</div>
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"Basic measures such as making healthy food cheaper and more accessible, introducing clearer food labelling and making it easier for people to build physical activity into their daily lives would have a profound influence."</div>
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It is a potentially fatal condition. According to Diabetes UK, more than 24,000 people with diabetes die prematurely every year due to failures in accessing the best type of care.</div>
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This includes receiving eight annual checks in areas such as foot care and eyesight.</div>
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The checks - which only 60 per cent of people with diabetes currently receive - are designed to prevent complications which can lead to limb amputation, blindness, kidney failure and even death.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 10 years, over five million Britons could be diabetic</td></tr>
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The charity also warned that people are missing out on education courses designed to help them best manage their condition, with more than a third of regions in England still not running them.</div>
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Hospital care for people with diabetes is consistently poor and puts some lives at risk, it said.</div>
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Almost 80 per cent of the £10bn spent on diabetes every year by the NHS goes on treating complications that may have been preventable.</div>
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Mr Askew said: "Tragically, we are continuing to see too many people with diabetes suffering serious complications, and even dying before their time, and we know that key reasons for this are that they are being denied both the care and access to education that would help them to manage their condition well.</div>
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"It is vital that we start to see people with diabetes receive good quality care wherever they live rather than them being at the mercy of a postcode lottery."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doctors warn this steep rise could put immense strain on an already burdened NHS</td></tr>
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He added: "With a record number of people living with diabetes, there is no time to waste in getting serious about providing better care and diabetes education.</div>
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"Until this happens, the rising number of people with diabetes will continue to be denied the best chance of living long and healthy lives and the NHS will continue to be crippled under avoidable but escalating costs of treating poorly-managed diabetes."</div>
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Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "Sadly, too many people suffer from Type 2 diabetes and its serious health consequences.</div>
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"We must help prevent those at high risk of developing it from doing so.</div>
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"The NHS diabetes prevention programme, due to begin national rollout in the spring, will help people make the lifestyle changes that lessen their risk - eating more healthily, being more physically active and achieving a healthy weight and waist size."</div>
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Number of UK diabetics reaches all time high and has the potential to 'cripple' the NHS

THE amount of people living with diabetes in the UK has reached record heights and could place an incredible strain on NHS, reveals shockin...

Hospitals so close to collapse NHS begs families to care for elderly instead of using A&E

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said care needs to be taken to avert a major crisis </td></tr>
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A LEADING NHS doctor has called for families to look after elderly friends and relatives in order to prevent a winter health CRISIS.</div>
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Britain’s most senior doctor has warned Accident & Emergency services may not be able to cope with all of the sick and ill people over the coming weeks.</div>
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Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, said care needs to be taken to avert a major crisis as hospitals have reported a 65 per cent increase in urgent visits for people aged over 75 in the past five years.</div>
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Sir Bruce said: “My message is simple. Look after yourself and others this Christmas, don’t store up health problems.</div>
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“It’s a sad fact that many are alone over Christmas or they return from a family celebration to a cold empty house.</div>
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"People can lose a bit of hope and stop looking after themselves.”</div>
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By checking up on vulnerable neighbours and family members Sir Bruce believes this could reduce the number of frail pensioners who fall sick.</div>
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He advised that people should ensure their elders have enough medicine throughout winter and that homes are kept sufficiently warm.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The elderly compose the largest group admitted to hospital in the winter</td></tr>
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<section class="text-description">Sir Bruce revealed that last year the health service responded to the highest EVER number of A&E attendances, NHS 111 calls, ambulance calls, and emergency admissions in NHS history, with a 65 per cent increase in trips to hospital for those over 75 years.<br />
The Royal College of Emergency has shown that A&E waits are the worst they’ve been in over 10 years.<br />
Sir Bruce said: “Unfortunately, the elderly compose the largest group admitted to hospital in the winter.<br />
“For the NHS, the pinch point in winter is the increase in numbers of emergency hospital stays – last winter they reached record levels”.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A&E waits are the worst they’ve been in over 10 years</td></tr>
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“They end up getting more unwell than they otherwise would.”<br />
In an attempt to save £178,000 for the NHS this year, the government cut the Elizabeth Care training programme to fill the desperate shortage of nurses who care for the elderly, which will end up costing the Government millions in the years ahead, as well as leaving the elderly to fend for themselves.<br />
Last year, winter death rates were also the highest they had been in almost 15 years.</section></div>

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NHS buildings will provide complimentary wireless internet in a bid to improve both medical treatment and patient experiences, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.</h2>
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Free wireless internet is to be provided in all NHS buildings, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.</div>
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Cash is being made available from a £1 billion technology fund to improve a patchy service - with some hospitals at present charging for access and others not providing it at all.</div>
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The move was a key recommendation of a Government-commissioned report by UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox on improving the use of online technology in the health service.</div>
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It will allow patients to stay in contact more easily with family and friends as well as keeping themselves entertained.</div>
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Officials believe it will also encourage the use of technologies that could massively cut paperwork and errors, and help alert doctors and nurses to medical problems.</div>
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Mobile clinical systems and tablets have already replaced paper charts in some hospitals, allowing potentially problematic changes in vital signs to be more quickly spotted and acted on, and for data to be shared around the building.</div>
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The Department of Health said greater use of e-prescribing could reduce medication errors by 50 per cent.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The UK Government expects the NHS to go "digital and paperless" by 2020</td></tr>
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Patients could also wear monitors to alert medical staff to issues, helping for example the more than a fifth of diabetics said to have experienced a "largely avoidable" hypoglycemic episode while in hospital.</div>
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Mr Hunt said: "Everyone using the NHS expects it to be a world leader in digital healthcare and free wifi is an essential part of making that a reality.</div>
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"It will give patients and staff the ability to access the services they need as well as freeing up clinical time and reducing overall costs."</div>
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The Department of Health was unable to say what proportion of NHS facilities already provide free wifi.</div>
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No specific deadline has been set for it to be available across the board but the Government expects the NHS to go "digital and paperless" by 2020.</div>
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EXCLUSIVE: Secret NHS plot to slash costs could see YOUR prescription drugs AXED

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THE Government is plotting a huge review of medicines available on the NHS which could see life-saving drugs axed, NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com can reveal. </div>
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Some pills currently used for treating conditions including cancer and Alzheimer's could have their state funding reevaluated as part of a root and branch inquiry to help achieve budget cuts. </div>
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Top secret 'discussions' reveal that the assessment, which would form part of the Government's overarching spending review, will encompass some "products currently available under pharmaceutical remuneration", including prescriptions. </div>
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As a result some drugs and medicines currently available on the NHS could be judged on their effectiveness and value for money, with a view to axing those which do not make the grade. </div>
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The explosive revelations are contained in emails sent by Department of Health officials and seen by NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com</div>
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A spokesman for the department insisted that the emails were "informal correspondence" and that carrying out such a review is "not official policy". </div>
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Plans for the wide-ranging review came to light after respected medical campaign group The Good Thinking Society (TGTS) threatened the Department of Health with a legal challenge over its continued funding of homeopathy treatments. </div>
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The charity, which is opposed to pseudoscientific treatments, has argued that the Government has a legal responsibility to ban the sugar pill remedies because there is no scientific evidence to suggest that they work. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The NHS is likely to be hit on November 25 when a review on public spending is published</td></tr>
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After being told of the planned legal proceedings a department of health lawyer emailed the group on September 11 urging them to await the announcement of the Government's spending review before taking action.</div>
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The lawyer wrote: "I can confirm that since the General Election the Government has been re-assessing its funding decisions. The discussions around these decisions are still on-going.</div>
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"However, I can confirm that these discussions relate to products currently available under pharmaceutical remuneration, which by definition, includes homeopathic products."</div>
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</section><section class="text-description">The revelations will spark fears that some treatments could be added to an NHS blacklist, which contains more than 3,000 products which cannot be prescribed on the health service. <br /><br />Alongside more expensive life-extending drugs controversial remedies including homeopathy, hypnotherapy and acupuncture could come under the microscope. <br /><br />Michael Marshall, Project Director of the Good Thinking Society, said: "A comprehensive review of products which can be prescribed and reimbursed by the NHS is certainly an interesting development, and we keenly await the outcomes, particularly with respect to homeopathic remedies.<br /><br />"We firmly believe that any spending of limited NHS resources on homeopathy is unjustifiable, and we are prepared to continue our campaign of legal challenges to highlight the wastage of public money on these firmly-discredited remedies."</section><section class="text-description">If successful, the controversial treatments would join a blacklist containing items as varied as acne lotions, Nurofen, vitamin pills, suntan lotion and even Ribena and wine. <br /><br />Those products are listed in amendments to the 2005 Prescription of Drugs Regulations and cannot be prescribed on the NHS by law. <br /><br />Last month NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com revealed how the NHS is still spending more than £5 million a year on homeopathic remedies despite the fact that its own website states they do not work. <br /><br />The Tories ordered a huge review into public spending, due to be published on November 25, after sweeping to power in May's General Election. It comes at a time when the health service is facing an uphill struggle to meet efficiency savings imposed by swingeing Government budget cuts. <br /><br />The NHS is currently in the grip of a huge funding crisis, with staff morale said to be at an all-time low and Junior Doctors threatening to strike over controversial cost-cutting changes to their contracts. Shock statistics published on Friday revealed that health trusts racked up an astonishing £1 billion deficit in just three months from April to June this year..</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">In July this year Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned patients they will have to pay for more NHS services in the future because "there is no such thing as a free health service". <br /><br />Reacting to the revelations, veteran health campaigner Jos Bell said: "It's definitely of concern. If they are going to focus on cutting out medication that's presumably proven to work and then say 'sorry patient, you're not worth this amount anymore' whereas previously they were, then that's a complete imbalance of priorities.<br /><br />"It's an absolute disaster. If you wanted to sit down and decide how not to manage the NHS, this is how to do it."</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drugs and medicines on the NHS could be judged on their effectiveness and value for money</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description">A spokesman for the Department of Health said that emails shared between its representatives and TGTS were "informal correspondence" and do not represent "official Department of Health policy".<br /><br />When reminded the emails to the TGTS were from a department of health lawyer the spokesman added “its an inference, [the review] might be happening, there no indication, this isn’t policy.”<br /><br />The spokesman recited there is "no specific review taking place into NHS funding decisions" but that health will be involved in the wider spending review of all Government departments.<br /><br />He said the department cannot comment on the specifics of what will be included in Mr Osborne's review.</section>

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