The English patients; Cross-border treatment adds towaiting list crisis.

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 3, 2003 ;     345 words ...Byline: MARK AITKEN MORE than 9,000 English patients are receiving treatment in Scotland...England. MSPs are demanding to know why English patients are being sent north for treatment...2002, there were 36,802 visits by English patients to Scottish hospitals. This compares...

Scandal of the English patients ; The battle to end NHS prescription...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  October 1, 2008 ;     364 words ......Swindon said it was a scandal English patients would continue to pay while...the UK were either given the drugs free or at a greatly reduced...this would leave millions of English patients having to pay the charge...struggled to pay the cost of the drugs they were prescribed, since...

Revealed: English patients jump Welsh NHS queues.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......for NHS treatment are losing out to English patients jumping the queue in our hospitals...has been admitted that a number of English patients have been treated in Wales. The woman...the first time that it has treated English patients. A spokesman said, 'The lady we treated...

English patients 'subsidise Welsh'.(News)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  March 19, 2008 ;     284 words ......of around 500,000, of whom 60,000 live in Mid Wales. The English patients have their treatment funded through Whitehall's payment...when she said there was some truth in the argument that English patients were actually subsidising Welsh patients . But Mr Taylor...

Targeted therapies: will gene screens usher in personalized...

Science News;  September 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Drugs can cure you and they can kill you. More often, they'll do...and abnormal heart rhythms. Because so many people rely on drugs, the problem of side effects amounts to a major public health...high-profile reports have suggested that adverse side effects of drugs rank among the leading causes of ...

'It's appalling that English patients are treated here quicker than we...

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  May 26, 2005 ;     678 words ......treatment in their own hospitals than English patients being treated in Wales, it was revealed...between waiting times for Welsh and English patients in Welsh hospitals was revealed by...longer for treatment in Wales than English patients being treated in Wales, has intensified...

A dance with death; Fury over drugs still for sale at Anita...

The Birmingham Post (England);  September 1, 1999 ;     670 words ...Drugs are still being peddled at the Midland nightclub where a...and Anita's mother, Mrs Elaine Gair, said she was furious drugs were still being sold at the club. Teenagers are so vulnerable...drug. But an undercover reporter has revealed how class A drugs are still on sale at the nightspot. The reporter ...

Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England.(Book review)

Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England By Tanya Pollard Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 Occasionally...obvious that the reader can only wonder why no one has addressed it before. Pollard's study of drugs and the early modern theater is such a book. Drugs were controversial commodities in early ...

The Viagra invasion; Doctors face torrent of sex drug demands from...

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  January 31, 1999 ;     417 words ......Dobson has ruled that lifestyle drugs like Viagra should only be supplied...said this raised the prospect of English patients being able to get prescriptions for drugs like Viagra from GPs in Scotland...by a Welsh authority. But I have English patients who will be able to apply for ...

Drugs.com Launches Professional Healthcare Information Resource in...

PR Newswire;  June 4, 2008 ;     480 words ...Drugs.com Mobile Edition Enhances Patient Care by Providing Free...Professional Caregivers NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Drugs.com, the leading online resource for clinical drug and related...professional edition for the iPhone. This new mobile edition of Drugs.com provides physicians and healthcare ...

How our city is aiming to tackle drugs menace.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  April 26, 2006 ;     386 words ...DRUGS can have a huge effect on a community and, for many people...and information for youngsters is available. Police believe drugs misuse can trigger criminal activity and, in an effort to...the Home Office on March 31 means people can be tested for drugs on arrest, which can help police see if ...

Drugs: the highs and lows

The Sunday Herald;  August 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Writing On Drugs Sadie Plant (Faber, #9.99) Cannabis Culture Patrick Matthews (Bloomsbury...Foucault began to talk publicly about his various experimentations with drugs. "Drugs have now become a part of our culture," he told one interviewer. "Just...

Schoolkids have drugs 'on a plate'

South Wales Evening Post;  August 11, 2008 ;     528 words ...Hard drugs including cocaine are easily available in...schoolchildren are helping themselves, a town-based drugs charity has claimed. Alan Andrews, who is...intervention service Chooselife, said hard drugs were becoming increasingly common among youngsters...

Drugs Force Many to Adjust Their Lives; Friendships End, Social Activities...

The Washington Post;  January 2, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Drugs have fundamentally changed daily life in the District and...residents say they stopped seeing a friend during 1988 because of drugs. A majority have stopped going to certain parts of the city...know, and go to places where there won't be any trouble." Drugs and drug violence are hitting every kind of ...

Magnifique, say English patients after first ops on NHS in France.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  January 21, 2002 ;     208 words ......problem. She was looked after by nurse Hugo Runzi, 24, who spent two years studying English. He was happy to look after English patients. The system is working well, he said. Retired accounts clerk Gill Hancock, 67, from East Kent, who had waited over a year...