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A National Autistic Society (NAS) Response To The National Audit Office (NAO) Report On Adults With Autism
Mark Lever, NAS chief executive said; "In the current economic climate the Government cannot possibly ignore the huge cost savings and benefits, identified by their own auditing body, of providing adults with autism with the right support at the right time. Neither the Government, people with autism nor the taxpayer are getting value for money from existing autism services and support, leaving those affected by the condition feeling isolated, ignored and often at breaking point. This is simply unacceptable.
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Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes: Clinical, Urodynamic, And Urothelial Observations
UroToday.com - Patients with pain can present with various symptom complexes that include interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, irritable bowel syndrome, myofascial pain or various causes of dyspareunia but when carefully evaluated, the majority have very similar findings. No matter what their primary complaint might be over 70% of patients will have hypertonic pelvic floor dysfunction and/or pain as well as a component of at least one visceral pain syndrome such as interstitial cystitis (the most common), chronic pelvic pain or irritable bowel syndrome.
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Predictors Of Patient Reported Outcomes And Cost Of Care In Younger Men With Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer
UroToday.com - In the online version of The Prostate, Dr. Ravishankar Jayadevappa and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the association between race, risk of biochemical recurrence and recovery pattern of patient reported outcomes such as satisfaction with care, HRQoL (generic and prostate-specific) and cost in younger men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer (CaP). The investigators hypothesized that younger African American men will have impaired HRQoL outcomes and will present with higher cost compared to younger Caucasian CaP patients.
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Troubled Mental Health Trust Symptomatic Of Failings Nationwide, UK

A damning report from the Care Quality Commission has found multiple failings in inpatient care for patients at West London Mental Health Trust, ranging from sub-standard buildings, overcrowding, lack of staff and insufficient staff training, to failure to implement changes that could help prevent suicides on wards. In some areas, there were long delays in considering changes to help reduce suicide risk, and on one inpatient unit, bed occupancy was regularly running at over 110 per cent, resulting in patients sleeping on sofas due to lack of beds. The report is hot on the heels of the Mental Health Act Commission"s final report into inpatient care (1), which found basic inadequacies in staffing, training, ward conditions and patient safety across the country. In response to today"s report, Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind, said: "The failures at West London Mental Health Trust are not isolated incidents, but are symptomatic of failings across the country in the way that mental health inpatients are treated. "Patients sleeping on sofas due to bed shortages is completely unacceptable, and would never be tolerated on wards in general hospitals. The very minimum conditions for inpatient hospital care should start with a bed for the night, inside buildings that are fit for purpose, with enough trained staff to provide decent levels of care. "Most alarming was the Trust"s response to suicide on wards. Delays, bureaucracy and failure to learn from past mistakes are putting patients" lives at risk. There can be no excuse for these serious failings. "Although there are some excellent inpatient wards, in many areas poor practice has become entrenched, and conditions that should be considered unacceptable have become the norm. As the government launches New Horizons this week, its consultation on the future of mental health care, we hope that bringing conditions on inpatient wards into the 21st century will be a top priority." (1) On Sunday 19 July 2009, the new Care Quality Commission published the final biennial report of the Mental Health Act Commission into conditions on mental health inpatient wards in England and Wales: Coercion and consent: monitoring the Mental Health Act 2007-2009 MIND


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