23/10/2014
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Five facts about the pressures facing the National Health Service.
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NHS England's Simon Stevens answers your questions
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The new boss of NHS England, along with the country's leading health organisations, have come up with a radical plan - which they say is needed to save the NHS. Adam Brimelow reports.
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The Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper gave a televised address overnight, saying the country wouldn't be intimidated by terrorists. Parliament in Ottawa was locked down for most of the day after the shooting of a man who'd killed a soldier and managed to get into the building. Barbara Plett-Usher reports.
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Two of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline & Johnson and Johnson, will meet the World Health Organisation and others today to talk about what can be done to speed up an Ebola vaccine. Tom Feilden is Today's science editor.ΜύΜύ
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More than a million people over 50 have been pushed out of the workplace involuntarily, and they could be contributing a huge amount to the country's prosperity - according to one of the prince of Wales's charities. Jessica Stone is director of policy at the Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise.
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Ever since the NHS was founded in 1948, you could go anywhere in the country and it would work in the same way. That is now changing. The new chief executive Simon Stevens says different parts of the country should use different models depending on what they think will work best. They could copy the Whitstable Medical Practise in Kent which employs 20 GPs and offers ultrasound and x-rays in the GP surgery. Dr John Ribchester is its senior partner and The Torbay and Southern Devon NHS Trust’s chief exec is Mandy Seymour.
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Canada has been largely immune from terrorist attack. So yesterday shooting at Parliament in Ottawa was a shock to the country. Then came the attack by a single gunman on Parliament. James Cudmore is security correspondent for CBC in Ottawa.
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If the NHS is to survive, it needs to find another Β£22 billion pounds in savings over the next five years. And government needs to stump up another Β£8 billion over the cost of inflation. That's what the new boss of the NHS Simon Stevens has set out today in his five year forward view. Professor Malcolm Green is a former physician at the Royal Brompton
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South Yorkshire Police have vowed to investigate new allegations that it failed to investigate historic allegations of child abuse. Claims were made yesterday that senior officers repeatedly failed to investigate allegations of abuse and instead prioritised car crime and burglary.Μύ One mother, who's 12 year old daughter was abused, says she was forced to try to identify the abusers herself due to police inaction. She's been speaking to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ social affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan.
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Two missing episodes of "At Last The 1948 Show" have been found by the estate of Sir David Frost. The comedy programme starred John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Green and Marty Feldman. When Thames Television took over the ITV London franchise in 1968 they destroyed most of the episodes. Sir David Frost produced the show - and had kept the first and last episodes.
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TESCO interim results are due out at 0700 this morning. They were postponed from last month after the company announced an investigation into an overstatement of its profits.ΜύΜύ The company has suspended four directors while the inquiry is taking place. The Deloitte investigation has yet to be completed. Thursday's results are the first for the new CEO Dave Lewis. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Business Editor, Kamal Ahmed reports.
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One of the big problems facing the NHS is obesity. The new chief executive Simon Stevens is proposing offering money to companies who reward their staff if they lose weight. And it's not just obesity adding to the strain on the NHS. The Alzheimer's Society says there will be 850,000 people living with dementia by next year - something that will cost the UK Β£26 billion every year. Zaneta Jones has struggled with obesity all her life and Joy Watson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a year ago, when she was just 55.
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Liberia is the country that's been worst affected by the Ebola outbreak - more than 2,500 people are known to have died, and the infection rate is growing. Now a senior Liberian health official has told the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ that many non-Ebola patients are dying from conditions that would usually be easy to cure. Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Liberia's largest state-run hospital in the capital Monrovia.
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NHS leaders have outlined a radical programme of change - a Five Year Forward View - to improve services in England and close a predicted thirty-billion pound annual funding gap by the end of the decade. They include a greater emphasis on preventing ill health, and breaking down traditional barriers between GPs and hospital doctors to facilitate more care in community settings. However they warn that even if their plans come to fruition, and they manage to achieve unprecedented improvements in efficiency, they will still leave the NHS eight billion pounds-a-year short which will have to be met by increased funding. Simon Stevens is chief executive of NHS England.
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The NHS is obviously to be at the centre of the forthcoming election campaign, as was made clear in the party conference speeches of David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg. Nick Robinson is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's political editor.
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Business news with Tanya Beckett.
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Jim Naughtie speaks to Brian O'Driscoll, about his autobiography The Test. In it he talks - surprisingly - about his struggles with confidence, a previously-unknown episode where he was wrongfully arrested in New York and thrown in jail, and an extraordinary conversation with the Queen.
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Camilla Cavendish, Associate Editor at the Sunday Times - who is on the board of the Care Quality Commission - and Clare Gerada, chair of NHS London Clinical Board for Transforming Primary Care and Former Chair of the Royal College of GPs discuss the plans for the next five years of the NHS as set out by Simon Stevens this morning.
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