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“If the system was totally interoperable, then it could actually offer me choices…Have you thought of this? Have you thought of that? Have you considered this? And it would give me choices, which I think is great. As it stands at the moment, it’s, if the GP says something, I do...
July 2007 - Stopping smoking The NHS made a bigger push than ever to encourage people to stop smoking, firstly through the launch of NHS Choices. It was built to offer advice for people to make healthy lifestyle decisions, including tips on how to quit smoking. Weeks later, on 1 July, ...
wholegrains, nuts and seeds are needed to counteract the harmful free radicals which the body naturally produces during all of the millions of metabolic reactions and processes that occur in every cell of our bodies. Excessive free radicals contribute to chronic diseases including cancer, heart disea...
"It's never too late to make positive choices for your health and stopping smoking is the best change you can make – especially as smoking around your loved ones puts theirhealthat risk too," she said. "So this No Smoking Day, be proud to be a quitter. There's a wide range of fr...
Surgical choices focusing on reduced operative time, low complication rates, and minimizing the inpatient stay are favored. In the current climate, breast cancer patients are not being offered primary reconstructions. Similarly, in the severely injured limb, early amputation should be considered over ...
“We are clearly seeing a shift from 20s and 30s and 40-year-olds being affected by Omicron to a clear shift to a more 60-plus age group being affected, and that is what is causing us concern as well as the immediate concern being absence, staff absence, both in the NHS and educatio...
become infected by patients and vice versa, although they will be less likely to develop serious infections or die. Similarly, patients will be protected, or not, by their own choices about vaccination. If other infection control measures are in place, will vaccination necessarily add very much?