Flame Health Newsletter - Issue 1 August 2004

Issue 1 - August 2004

NHS warns over doctor hours limit

Government makes extra new investment in doctors' premises

£4 billion investment for new hospitals

Health warning over summer smog

Coke or Pepsi? It's all in the head

Associate Dentist

Essex

£40000-50000

Area Manager

London - General

£27000-30000

Qualified Dispensing Optician

Surrey

£20000-35000

Field Service Engineer

M4 Corridor

£25000-26000

Newly Qualified Optometrists

Anywhere in the UK

£25000-35000

GP/Hospital Representative

Cambridgeshire

£20000-25000

Medical Sales Representative

Bristol

£20000-25000

Instrument Engineer

London - General

£22000-25000






Some NHS trusts have warned they face staff shortages in specialist areas as they try to meet a new limit on junior doctors' hours coming into force. Trainee doctors should no longer be working more than 58 hours a week under European regulations.

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GPs across England will share a new £108 million 'improvement pot' to help refurbish and develop their surgeries, Health Minister John Hutton announced today.

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Health Secretary John Reid today gave the ‘green light’ for 15 new NHS hospital developments worth more than £4 billion. Today’s announcement will bring investment in new NHS hospitals to more than £16 billion since 1997.

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Asthma sufferers and the elderly have been warned to take care as hot weather brings air pollution and smog. A mini-heatwave forecast for the UK this week may affect people with breathing difficulties, government officials have said.

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The long-standing conundrum of why Coke sells more than Pepsi despite being less popular in blind taste tests may have been solved.

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