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NHS and social services tested to limit by cuts - MPs

Government spending plans will test the NHS and social services to the limit, according to a report by a cross-party Parliamentary committee.

Published
14 December 2010
From
BBC
UK health services
UK social care: Personalisation and the right to control

The ‘Personalisation Agenda’ is intended to apply to all community care service users in England by 2011. The aim of personalised and integrated care planning is to provide a care plan that covers your full range of needs. It recognises that there are other issues in addition to medical needs that can impact on your total health and well-being.

Published
13 December 2010
From
Disability Alliance
HIV testing programmes
HIV screening outside specialist settings is feasible, acceptable and effective in UK

The universal offer of a HIV test in UK general practice and hospital settings is highly feasible and acceptable to patients, researchers have concluded. Moreover,

Published
08 December 2010
By
Roger Pebody
UK health services
HIV and the NHS – a new relationship?

Yusef Azad writes: The relationship between HIV and the NHS must, as for all conditions, adapt as treatment and care changes and develops.

Published
02 December 2010
From
Financial Times
Finding support
The beginning of change: the 2010 CHIVA summer camp

Following on from our issue looking at young people, in October, guest writer Bakita Kasadha talks to the organisers and participants in the UK’s summer camp for teenagers

Published
02 December 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Health services and systems
The whether forecast: HIV services in the cutback era

Some HIV experts are wondering not what our services will look like in the future but in some areas, whether there will be any HIV-specific services at all.

Published
02 December 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Ageing and HIV
The prescription for old age

What will happen as the HIV-positive population grows older is already the topic most frequently suggested by readers for HIV Treatment Update to cover. It was recently the

Published
02 December 2010
From
HIV treatment update
UK health services
Most HIV-positive patients in England live close to a specialist HIV clinic

The vast majority of HIV-positive patients in England live close to a clinic that provides specialist HIV treatment and care, a study published in the online edition

Published
02 December 2010
By
Michael Carter
UK health services
Incentivising wellness: Improving the treatment of long-term conditions

The report argues that the ‘business model’ for managing long-term conditions is wrong, with the resources, processes and financial incentives of both GP practices and hospitals designed to manage acute events, not prolonged periods of care.

Published
26 November 2010
From
Policy Exchange
UK health services
UK Spending Review acknowledges continuing importance of HIV social care

Following a recent campaign led by NAT (National AIDS Trust) to protect funding for social care services in England for people living with HIV, the Government has committed in the recent Spending Review to take account of HIV social care needs within the overall local authority grant over the next five years.

Published
09 November 2010
From
NAT
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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