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Direct Life & Pension Services Ltd has been established since 1990.
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28 May 2008 17:13:50
More than half England's £50 billion mental health bill is due to lost earnings, a year-long study revealed today (May 28th).
Independent charitable foundation the King’s Fund found that thousands of people unable to work due to mental illness accounted for over 50 per cent (£26.1 billion) of England's mental health bill.
Around £22.5 billion of the total spend was used for NHS and social services support. Professor Martin Knapp, co-author of Paying the Price said the health service meets the costs but rarely receive the economic benefits of care.
The cost of mental health services are expected to grow from £22.5 billion to £47 billion over the next 20 years.
The report suggests potential savings could be made by helping people with depression and anxiety disorders back to productive work.
An estimated 35 per cent of working age adults with depression have not sought help and 51 per cent of adults with anxiety problems are not in contact with services. Of those who are, 46 per cent do not receive medication or psychological therapy.
Professor Knapp said: "We found that paying for more people to be treated would create net savings as reductions in lost employment costs would outweigh treatment costs."
12 November 2007 13:08:24
People who suffer a minor stroke but are treated as emergency cases in specialist stroke units run the lowest risk of a major stroke afterwards, it has emerged.
According to a new study featured in December's Lancet Neurology, someone who has a minor stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) has a significant risk of experiencing a major stroke within a week.
Dr Matthew Giles and Professor Peter Rothwell from Oxford University's Stroke Prevention Research Unit examined a range of studies involving over 10,000 patients.
They concluded that the lowest risk of stroke was seen in studies where patients were admitted to specialist stroke units (0.9 per cent) and the highest in studies that recorded no urgent treatment (11 per cent).
Joe Korner, director of communications at the Stroke Association, commented: "A TIA is one of the only warning signs that a major stroke may be on its way and it is vital that anyone with a TIA is referred urgently to specialist services and for those at highest risk to be seen within 24 hours."
About 150,000 people have a stroke each year in the UK, with the condition potentially leading to disability and death.
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08 November 2007 14:01:21
The benefits of critical illness cover in relation to heart disease and strokes have been demonstrated in Mexico.
According to medical professionals there, the country's new health insurance programme has had a positive effect on treatments available for hypertension, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Adults insured through Seguro Popular, created to extend health insurance to the nation's 50 million uninsured inhabitants by 2010, are now reportedly more likely to receive treatment for hypertension and have their blood pressure controlled than those without health insurance.
"Lack of health insurance has been consistently identified as a key obstacle to hypertension treatment," explained Dr Sara Bleich , assistant professor in the department of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A survey commissioned by the Stroke Association recently revealed that a large proportion of people in the UK lack basic "stroke awareness", with just under half of older people admitting they would wait 24 hours or more to take action if someone was experiencing the symptoms of a stroke.
The charity pointed out that this would leave those experiencing the condition in danger of severe disability or even death.
An estimated 150,000 people have a stroke in the UK every year.
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