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Research Briefing

Health and Social Care Bill

Thursday, 27 January, 2011

This briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill has been prepared for the Second Reading debate on the Bill in the House of Commons on 31 January 2011. The Bill is intended to give effect to the reforms requiring primary legislation that were proposed in the NHS White Paper Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS. This White Paper set out the Government’s aims to reduce central control of the NHS, to engage doctors in the commissioning of health services, and to give patients greater choice.
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Pay in the NHS

Thursday, 14 October, 2010

This note gives details of pay bands and actual earnings of hospital doctors, GPs and other NHS staff in England
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Epilepsy Statistics

Tuesday, 05 October, 2010

A short note summarising prevalence, mortality and prescribing data on epilepsy. Gavin Thompson and Lorna Booth.
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Electronic Patient Records: the roll-out of the Summary Care Record

Tuesday, 22 June, 2010
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Cigarette packaging, labelling and health

Wednesday, 12 May, 2010

This note summarises the legislation concerning health warnings on tobacco packaging.
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Legal claims for pleural plaques

Friday, 26 February, 2010
Research Briefing

Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill: Committee Stage Report

Tuesday, 23 February, 2010

This note summarises the House of Commons Second Reading and Committee Stage proceedings of the Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill (Bill 19 2009-10).
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Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill [Bill 19 of 2009-10]

Wednesday, 27 January, 2010

The Bill seeks to create a duty on sunbed businesses to prevent use of sunbeds by under-18s, to provide for local authority enforcement of this duty, and to give Ministers powers to make regulations imposing further conditions on commercial sunbed use.
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Abortion law

Thursday, 17 December, 2009

A brief outline of the law regulating abortion in the UK. A list of Bills related to abortion is provided in Standard Note PC/03657 and abortion statistics can be found in Standard Note SG/4418.
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Personal Care at Home Bill. Bill 11 2009-10.

Wednesday, 09 December, 2009

In September 2009, the Government announced that it would be introducing free personal care for people living in their own home with the highest care needs. The Bill follows proposals announced earlier in the year in the Shaping the Future of Care Together green paper to create a National Care Service for social care. It is intended that the introduction of free personal care will be the first step in setting up the National Care Service.
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Indicators of hospital performance published by the Care Quality Commission and Dr. Foster Research

Thursday, 03 December, 2009

This note examines measures of hospital standards and patient safety published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Dr. Foster Research Limited and critically appraises the methodology underpinning their assessments. Concerns have been raised about the lack of consistency between the CQC and Dr. Foster ratings; in the final section, a comparison is made between the two, and some explanations for the discrepancies are offered.
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Tobacco provisions of the Health Bill: Lords amendments

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009

The purpose of this note is to provide an update on the tobacco control provisions and, in particular, the treatment of Commons Amendment 11 in the Lords.
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Effects of Alcohol tax cuts in Finland in 2004

Thursday, 15 October, 2009

This note examines the effects of 2004 tax cuts on Finnish alcohol consumption and related harm.
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Bed Availability in England

Thursday, 08 October, 2009
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Health Bill [HL]: Committee Stage Report

Monday, 20 July, 2009

This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Health Bill [HL] prepared for the Report Stage of the Bill due on 12 October 2009. It supplements Research Papers 09/48 and 09/49, which were prepared for the Second Reading of the Bill in the Commons on 8 June 2009.
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