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• Targeted and population-based strategies both necessary for blood pressure control

  03-09-2018 21:29
  Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is the leading risk factor for heart disease, and improvements in both targeted and population-based strategies for blood pressure control can lead to better prevention and control of hypertension, according to a review paper.
  
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• Patients with new-onset AFib after TAVR at highest risk for complications

  03-09-2018 21:29
  Patients developing AFib after TAVR are at higher risk of death, stroke and heart attack compared to patients who already had AFib prior to the procedure, according to a new study.
  
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• Who works where in the UK public sector

  03-09-2018 16:03
  Total public sector employment has risen slightly since 2017, but austerity has hit hard in the past decadeIs the tide finally turning on public sector job cuts?The Office for National Statistics breaks down public sector employment as follows (all figures as at March 2018): Related: Public sector job cuts: is the tide finally turning?Related: Sign up for the Society Weekly email newsletterContinue reading...
  
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• Public sector job cuts: is the tide finally turning?

  03-09-2018 16:03
  The NHS and civil service are recruiting, but there are still 1.1m fewer public sector workers than in 2009 and councils have been hard hitWho works where in the UK public sector
  “It’s not your normal job; we’re mending lives,” says actor Maxine Peake, in her voiceover to the video spearheading the NHS’s new £8m recruitment campaign, its biggest ever. The health service is growing: in the 12 months to the end of March, the number of NHS staff in England rose b
  
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• Guinea Pigs Gifted To Residents Of Wellington Care Home

  03-09-2018 11:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Big-hearted neighbours who run the pet centre at a Somerset garden centre have brought smiles to the faces of residents of a Wellington dementia care home by gifting them a new guinea pig to take the place of a much-loved pet.
   
  When Richard Dempslake, activities co-ordinator at Camelot House and Lodge, explained to the animal carers at Monkton Elm Garden and Pet Centre near Taunton, how forlorn his residents were due to the passing of one of their two guinea p
  
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• Tribunal finds CQC’s decision “fair, reasonable and proportionate”

  03-09-2018 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tribunal finds CQC’s decision to prevent care provider from increasing numbers of people with a learning disability “fair, reasonable and proportionate”
  The First-tier Tribunal has ruled in favour of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) decision to refuse an application submitted by Care Management Group Limited (CMG) to vary a condition of its registration and increase the number of people with a learning disability at one of its services.
  CMG – a care provider runn
  
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• North Yorkshire care home gets a touch of ‘Emmerdale’ at summer fair

  03-09-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark Charnock, aka chef ‘Marlon Dingle’ from Emmerdale, visited Hambleton Grange care home in Thirsk for their summer fair. Mark mingled with residents, staff and the local community, signing autographs, posing for pictures and chatting about life in the Yorkshire soap.
  Mark was also asked to officially open the home’s brand new art room which will be used to host regular painting, drawing and craft classes for the people who live at Hambleton Grange.  Resident Dorothy Sta
  
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