Bucks Free Press: Health news from High Wycombe, Beaconsfield & Buckinghamshire

Stop smoking clinics this week

2:30pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

MOBILE NHS clinics are being held in Buckinghamshire this week in a bid to help people stop smoking.

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Investigation into deaths as children's heart surgery is suspended

9:51am Thursday 4th March 2010

CHILDREN’s heart surgery has been suspended at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital because of an investigation into the deaths of four children.

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Visiting restricted at Wycombe Hospital over bug

6:35pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

VISITING is being restricted at all wards at Wycombe Hospital after an outbreak of ‘winter vomiting disease’.

• Hospital website
• Norovirus guidance from the NHS

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Wycombe Hospital "safe" despite asbestos fears

11:30am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

HEALTH bosses have moved to reassure patients that Wycombe Hospital is safe - after admitting asbestos is present in parts of the 1960s tower block.

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Chesham stabbing to feature in BBC documentary

11:30am Thursday 25th February 2010

THE parents of a Chesham man who was killed by a paranoid schizophrenic feature in a ground-breaking documentary focusing on mental health issues next week.

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Marlow ambulance responses third worse than Wycombe

7:00am Sunday 21st February 2010

PATIENTS with life threatening conditions in Marlow are about a third less likely to get an ambulance in eight minutes than those in High Wycombe, figures show.

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Revealed: places with worst ambulance responses

11:47am Tuesday 16th February 2010

FIGURES revealed by The Bucks Free Press today lay bare the massive variances in life-saving ambulance response times.

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Hospital denies 'doctor off skiing' allegation

4:42pm Monday 15th February 2010

A HOSPITAL spokesman has denied a councillors’ public allegation that a clinic was not running because the doctor was on holiday.

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Re-think on bid to axe counselling

12:21pm Monday 15th February 2010

HEALTH bosses are to re-visit controversial plans to axe counselling services.

• NHS report on the original plans
• NHS presentation on the original plans
• MIND's response to the original plans

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Dentist access worse since reforms

3:27pm Friday 12th February 2010

FEWER Buckinghamshire patients have access to an NHS dentist than when much heralded reforms were introduced almost four years ago, bosses said today.

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Targets damaging ambulance response times, probe finds

4:39pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

A PROBE into ambulances today blames ‘perverse’ Government targets for poor response times in rural areas.

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Anger at health bosses paying £2.4m to agency staff

4:12pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

SPENDING on agency staff by NHS Buckinghamshire has more than doubled to £2.4 million since 2006.

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Swine Flu information service to be shut down

7:30am Monday 8th February 2010

HEALTH bosses will close the Swine Flu phone line and website on Thursday following a decrease in cases.

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£5.6m NHS payout over birth blunders

1:53pm Monday 1st February 2010

A TEENAGE girl left brain damaged because of failings at her birth at Wycombe Hospital has won a £5.6m payout.

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