Giving patients the skills they need
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Bigfoot Independent Hospital in Manchester provides mental health services tailored to patients' specific needs. The focus at Bigfoot is rehabilitation, increasing independence and enabling patients to move on to other settings such as group homes, core and cluster units, back to their families, or to live independently with appropriate care and support packages.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2006
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Action needed to curb spread of STIs
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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among teenagers have increased rapidly by 300% in 2007, since their initial detection in 1995. Guidelines from NICE recommend actions such as interventions during consultations on contraception, pregnancy or abortions to control the STIs.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2007
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