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• Healthy incentives?

  By Derren Hayes What incentive do you need to take your health seriously? With the constant barrage of media coverage over what consistitutes a healthy - or in most cases unhealthy - lifestyle it is hard to imagine that there are people out there who... Posted Oct 03 2008, 11:56 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: social care, poverty, health, GP

• Sex education: will the public swallow it?

  by Andrew Mickel 'Health campaigns work' would be the simple message to take away from the news that the rate of MRSA infection has fallen across the NHS following a big push to tell staff to wash their hands. Read More... Posted Sep 19 2008, 04:28 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: health, Tim Loughton, health campaigns, std's

• Don't criticise Nice, it's only being thorough

  by Andrew Mickel It can't be nice to work at Nice, the NHS body charged with evaluating what treatments are worth spending public money on and which aren't. Nice has just given permission for Lucentis to be used to treat wet age-related macular... Posted Aug 28 2008, 03:57 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: health, Andrew Mickel, lucentis, welsh assembly, herceptin, nice

• We're so happy! Universities identify Britain's league of happiness

  By Keith Sellick If you keep your eyes away from the bad news from the World Health Organisation - so shocking it immediately has you reaching for the fags and booze to recover - and the Tories crusade against lardos like me , then there is better news... Posted Aug 28 2008, 11:28 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, health, Ken Dodd, WHO, Edinburgh, happiness

• All political fun and games for children's services

  by Bronagh Miskelly The collaboration between the Department of Health and the Department of Children, Schools and Families to improve children's services has given rise to a new great double act in the traditions of British comedy it seems. Read... Posted Jul 17 2008, 12:11 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Politics, children and young people, education, children, funding, health, Bronagh Miskelly

• School dinners at heart of child obesity debate

  Two stories, two pages apart caught my eye in last Tuesday's issue of the Daily Telegraph. Read More... Posted Jun 30 2008, 10:34 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child protection, children and young people, health

• Fat pills that can kill

  by Anabel Unity Sale Fat. The three-letter word that can kill you, now the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has got its way. Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 06:21 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: anabel unity sale, health, suicide, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, depression, obesity

• Bitter pill

  By Derren Hayes The news that scientists in the US have developed a pill that can soothe childhood aches and pains was greeted with predictable scepticism by doctors this side of the pond. Read More... Posted Jun 17 2008, 05:55 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: children and young people, drugs, children, health, childhood development, medicines, doctors

• Child obesity is not child abuse!

  by Adam McCulloch Fellow Community Care blogger Simon Stevens wonders - not entirely seriously - if we'll see the day when you could be arrested for eating a Big Mac or ordering fish and chips . I laughed out loud on reading this but then I noticed... Posted Jun 16 2008, 02:16 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: child abuse, child protection, Adam McCulloch, children and young people, health, simon stevens, child obesity