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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:21 AM

Neil Hunt

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Name: Neil Hunt
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Health)
Alzheimer's Patients Receive Poor Care in Hospitals
Half of the patients come out of hospital in a worse condition than they were admitted in, Britain's Alzheimer's Society has found.It was also found that one third are never able to return home and are sent to a nursing home instead. Over three-quarters ... [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents
Report Calls for NHS to Cut Down on the Time Dementia Patients Spend in Hospitals
A recent report commissioned by the Alzheimer's Society has demanded the NHS to cut down on the amount of time people suffering from dementia spend in the hospitals by an average of 1 week, stating that long durations of hospitals stays have "an adverse ... [Topnews.in - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths (AFP)
LONDON (AFP) British health professionals have called for a change in the treatment of dementia patients after an official report warned that wrongly prescribed anti-psychotic medicines are causing the deaths of an estimated 1,800 each year.As many as ... [Yahoo! News - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
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Poor dementia care 'costing lives'
People with dementia are getting such poor treatment in hospital that they often stay as in-patients for far longer than they should, costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds, but they are the lucky ones. Many dementia sufferers die in hospital ... [Public Service - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents
Personal Care Bill
• Help around 400,000 people with care needs;• Offer for the first time free personal care at home for those with the highest needs, regardless of means;• Be the first step towards setting up a new National Care Service – a simple, fair and affordable ... [ePolitix.com - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Hospitals treat Alzheimer's patients so badly 'one in three carers complain'
Even greater numbers of relatives and friends said they wanted to complain but had not, a new report by the Alzheimer’s Society shows.The figures are released just days after an independent review warned that 1,800 dementia patients are being killed every ... [Telegraph - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Dementia: Alzheimer's Society slams hospital care
Long stays in hosptial worsens health and dementia symptoms, finds charityPeople with dementia are spending longer in hospital than others admitted with the same medical condition and leaving wards in a worse state than when they went in, the Alzheimer's ... [Communitycare.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 4 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Review phone policy after brawl: union
If you are unable to view this video, you may need to install the latest Flash plug-in, available free here.State School Teachers Union president Anne Gisborne has called for a closer look at policies regarding mobile phone use at schools after vision ... [West Australian - 11/05/2009]
First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for dementia
By Kate KellandLONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - More than 140,000 dementia patients in Britain are given anti-psychotic drugs needlessly and overprescribing of the medicines is linked to an extra 1,800 deaths in elderly people each year, a report said on T ... [London South East - 11/12/2009]
First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)
Boost for dementia research
More funding will be made available for dementia research as a new ministerial group is created to champion the issue, putting it for the first time on a par with the search for cancer treatments.The group also wants to strengthen the work that government ... [Pharmafocus - 11/09/2009]
First Reported 07/06/2009 - Updated 07/06/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)
Coffee May Cure Alzheimer's Disease
A few cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. Scientists have uncovered powerful evidence that caffeine not only helps to stave off the disease but can treat it.They hope soon ... [Sky News - 07/06/2009]
First Reported 08/10/2009 - Updated 08/10/2009 - 1 Documents
Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Contest
John Snodgrass writes 'Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix, has announced on the Netflix Prize Forums that they are planning to hold a new data mining competition. The second competition will have some twists and is expected to be shorter in duration. ... [Slashdot - 08/10/2009]

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"we are talking about an issue that is vast and staring the nhs in the face" the Telegraph quoted Neil Hunt, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, as saying
Alzheimer's Patients Receive Poor Care in Hospitals [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
...Chief executive Neil Hunt said, "the nhs is not facing up to the scale of this challenge and not equipping its staff properly for the problem ahead"
Report Calls for NHS to Cut Down on the Time Dementia Patients Spend in Hospitals [Topnews.in - 11/17/2009]
Neil Hunt, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society, said: "it is shocking that people with dementia are occupying up to a quarter of hospital beds yet there are scandalous variations in quality of dementia care in hospitals. a million more people will develop dementia in the next 10 years. the nhs needs to start taking dementia seriously."
Poor dementia care 'costing lives' [Public Service - 11/17/2009]

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Alzheimer's Patients Receive Poor Care in Hospi... [MedIndia - 11/19/2009]
Free Personal Care For Older People In Their Ow... [Medical News Today - 11/19/2009]
'Poor care in hospital worsens Alzheimer's pati... [Webindia123 - 11/19/2009]
Personal Care Bill [ePolitix.com - 11/18/2009]
Report Calls for NHS to Cut Down on the Time De... [Topnews.in - 11/17/2009]
Poor dementia care 'costing lives' [Public Service - 11/17/2009]
Poor Dementia Care In Hospitals Costing Lives A... [Medical News Today - 11/17/2009]
Report urges NHS to cut dementia patients' hosp... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
'Cut hospital times for dementia patients' [The Independent - 11/17/2009]
Half of Alzheimer's patients come out of hospit... [Telegraph - 11/17/2009]
Dementia patient care criticised [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Hospital 'makes dementia worse': Half of all pa... [Mail Online UK - 11/17/2009]
Dementia: Alzheimer's Society slams hospital care [Communitycare.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Dementia drug use linked to UK patient deaths ... [Yahoo! News - 11/16/2009]
Over Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs [SourceUK.net - 11/16/2009]
Hospitals treat Alzheimer's patients so badly '... [Telegraph - 11/14/2009]
'The NHS must stop killing dementia patients wi... [Public Service - 11/13/2009]
Government takes action on antipsychotic drugs ... [Government News Network - 11/12/2009]
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for deme... [London South East - 11/12/2009]
Wrongly prescribed dementia sedatives kill 1,500 [Times Online - 11/12/2009]
UK study warns against anti-psychotics for deme... [Interactive Investor International - 11/12/2009]
Chemical restraints killing dementia patients [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
Dementia drug use 'killing many' [BBC - 11/12/2009]
Dementia drugs 'useless for most' [BBC - 11/12/2009]
Boost for dementia research [Pharmafocus - 11/09/2009]
Boost for dementia research [Pharmafocus - 11/09/2009]
Speech by Phil Hope, Minister of State for Care... [DoH - 11/06/2009]
More help for dementia research [Government News Network - 11/05/2009]
Life-logging camera may help fight memory loss [CNN - 11/05/2009]
Review phone policy after brawl: union [West Australian - 11/05/2009]
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Netflix Prize 2: (Privacy) Apocalypse Now? [Ars Technica - 09/22/2009]
Netflix yesterday passed out a $1 million check to the stats geeks of "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos," the team which ...
How The Netflix Prize Was Won [Wired: Epicenter - 09/22/2009]
This equation, from Yehuda Koren's prize-winning documentation, shows the winning team adding a third set of movie-movie weights, and emphasis on adjacent ratings ...
Netflix Prize’s Next Challenge: Demographic and... [NewTeeVee - 09/21/2009]
Three years after the competition started, the first Netflix Prize was awarded today to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos,” a seven-member squad that combined three competing ...
Netflix Prize’s Next Challenge: Demographic and... [GigaOM Network - 09/21/2009]
Three years after the competition started, the first Netflix Prize was awarded today to “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos,” a seven-member squad that combined three competing ...
BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos Wins $1 Million Netfl... [Wired: Epicenter - 09/21/2009]
BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, winners of the Netflix Prize, display their million-dollar check at a press event in New York City Monday morning. Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk/Wired.com After ...
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