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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The first cross-government strategy specifically designed to break the link between poor health and youth crime was launched today by Care Services Minister Phil Hope. Speaking, while visiting staff at Lewisham Police Station, the Minister outlined how 'Healthy Children, Safer Communities', will build on existing work to prevent young people from getting involved in crime. The strategy...
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Harpymarx (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... will unveil a plan to tackle the stigma surrounding mental ill health. Care services minister Phil Hope said: “This strategy is showing how across government we can join up so that people in different settings can have help that prevents them becoming depressed, in a more holistic way and provides some mitigation.” But…. this is all superficial and scratching at the surface. Where...
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Uni Watch (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
By Phil Hecken Today we begin with Round III of the Clarksville “Design-A-Uniform” Contest, with a plethora of superb entries. If you missed the first two rounds (or just want to refresh your memory or see the parameters), click here and here. Lots to get to today, so lets dig right in: Amy Preston: submission Hello, I’ve been following [...]
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Community Care's CareSpace (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Care services minister Phil Hope and children's minister Baroness Morgan will give the government's response to the Social Work Task Force report at a special Community Care conference next Thursday. Social Work Task Force and Beyond: Rising to Read More......( read more )
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The Social Work Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Care services minister Phil Hope and children's minister Baroness Morgan will give the government's response to the Social Work Task Force report at a special Community Care conference next Thursday.
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Labour's Regional Minister for the East Midlands, Phil Hope MP, is urging local councils to make full use of new funding to tackle anti-social behaviour, which has been announced today by Labour's Communities Secretary John Denham and Housing Minister John Healey. Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Derby, Bolsover and Leicester councils will...
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Craig Dearden-Phillips `The Naked Entrepreneur' (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... learning difficulties recently elected by their peers in Suffolk. At the other side of the arc sit Phil Hope, Minister of State for Social Care, the new CEO of Mencap, Mark Goldring, Peter Holbrook, the new CEO of Social Enterprise Coalition, Phillip Blond, the Tory policy guru, and, next week, Nick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dems. At various points of the arc in between I meet...
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Lynne Featherstone's Parliament and Haringey diary (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... unit; and if he will make a statement. Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 23 November 2009, c26W) Phil Hope (Minister of State (the East Midlands), Regional Affairs; Corby, Labour) This is a matter for the local national health service. So why, if this is a local matter for the local national health service , have both the CEO of the Whittington, Rob Larkman, and Rachel Tyndall (in...
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Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... make a real difference to people’s health and quality of life.” Care Services Minister Phil Hope said: “These new funds will help support health and social care staff to develop innovative ideas across the country. They are specially designed to help staff transform the care, support and treatment their patients receive. Healthcare professionals have a long history...
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Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... for a ban, but we do want to see a significant reduction in use," said care services minister Phil Hope.
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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... medical conditions, accelerates mental decline and causes premature death. Care services minister Phil Hope yesterday backed an action plan to cut the 'unacceptable' use of anti-psychotics by two-thirds over the next three years. The report's author, Sube Banerjee, professor of mental health and ageing at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, said up to a quarter of...
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Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
T wo county council workers from Warwickshire who have been improving the lives of people with dementia through better mealtimes have spoken at a key national event. Warwickshire County Council staff, Vicki Shaw and Rachel Crockett, joined the likes of broadcaster John Suchet, whose wife Bonnie has dementia, and Care Services Minister Phil Hope when they addressed the UK Dementia Congress...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... as many strokes among older people every year, the study revealed. The care services minister, Phil Hope, accepted all the recommendations in the review and promised a fundamental change in the treatment of those suffering from dementia. The numbers being given "chemical restraints" will be reduced, extra training will be given to nursing home staff, more psychological therapies...
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thepharmaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia was announced yesterday by Care Services Minister Phil Hope.The action plan responds to an independent review by Sube Banerjee, professor of mental health at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, commissioned by the Department of Health. Prof Banerjee’s review shows that too many people with dementia are routinely prescribed...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Published: 9:42AM GMT 12 Nov 2009Photo: GETTY IMAGESOnly around 36,000 of the 180,000 people on the drugs in the UK derive any benefit from them, it said. Overprescribing of the drugs is linked to an extra 1,800 deaths a year among elderly people. Phil Hope, the care services minister, promised to crack down on the practice, including appointing a new national clinical director for dementia....
