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Lord Darzi has set the course for future mental health care with a review that for the first time puts mental health at the heart of the NHS. However, leading mental health charity Mind warns that there are still areas of inequality on the road ahead that must be urgently addressed. For example, the conditions of some inpatient wards where vulnerable patients are routinely accommodated on mixed sex wards are unacceptable.

Speaking on the publication of Lord Darzi's Next Stage review of the NHS, Professor Andy Adam, the President of The Royal College of Radiologists, said, 'Lord Darzi has produced an outstanding set of recommendations that promise to revolutionise the way health care is delivered in this country. His report is visionary, ambitious and substantial. For the first time in the sixty-year history of the NHS the quality of care delivered to patients assumes certain stage.

Lord Darzi's ambitious vision could have enormous benefits for people with dementia. Creating 'polyclinics' could potentially give people greater access to memory services and the specialist support they require, perhaps removing the need for hospital visits and ensuring that people get access to an earlier and accurate diagnosis. Speeding up evaluations of NHS treatments and giving people the universal right to approved treatments can only be positive.

The Journal of Social Psychology - June 30, 2008 Originally Published:20080601. Is Research on Beauty Only Skin Deep? review of The Psychology of Physical Attraction The Psychology of Physical Att...

Oral and nasal snuff and chewing tobacco increase the risk of certain types of cancer but are probably safer than smoking, according to a review published on Wednesday in the journal Lancet Oncology.

A little shove from the workplace may actually be the ticket to weight loss, a new review of studies from US show.According to Michael Benedict, MD, and colleagues at UC, employer-based programs for weight loss are modestly effective at helping workers take off extra pounds. 'Worksite-based programs do tend to result in weight loss for the people that participate in them,' says Benedict, co-author of the study and researcher in the department of internal medicine. The review appears in the July-August issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.read more

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