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	UK Postcode Lottery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UK Postcode Lottery is a lottery in the United Kingdom, launched in the north east of England on 31 August 2005.
		The lottery is in aid of charity, and works by using an entrant's postcode plus a unique three-digit number as their ticket number.
		In the build-up to the launch of the lottery, mailshots are being used to inform the public of a promotional competition in which 5 MINI Coopers are being given away (one for each post code district in the north east).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_postcode_lottery (1202 words)

	Postal code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
		In some countries (for instance continental Europe, where many countries use the same postcode format of four or five numeric digits) it is advisable to prefix the numeric postal code with a country code to avoid confusion when sending international mail to or from that country.
		UK postcodes are alphanumeric and between six and eight characters in length (including a single space character used to separate the outward and inward parts of the code).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postcode (1569 words)

	Doen Participaties - Nationale Postcode Loterij (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Dutch Postcode Lottery was established in 1989.
		By organising a lottery, funds are generated for the charities and at the same time these charities are brought to the public's attention.
		The total net-profit from the lottery is donated to charities that focus on social and ecological conservation, as well as provide aid to victims of war, violence, and poverty.
	www.doenparticipaties.nl /web/show/id=46781 (92 words)

	United Kingdom postcode \| Koordinaten / Informationen / Encyclopedia of terms - United Kingdom postcode
		In the London area postcodes are slightly different, being based on the old system of 163 London postal districts and predating by many years the introduction of postcodes in the 1960s:
		Postcodes were devised solely for the purposes of sorting and directing mail and rarely coincide with political boundaries.
		By including the map references of postcodes in the address database, the postcode can be used automatically to pinpoint a postcode area on a map.
	www.koordinaten.de /english/encyclopedia/uk_postcodes.shtml (2013 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Q&A: Postcode lottery
		The postcode lottery is shorthand for seemingly random countrywide variations in the provision and quality of public services - the huge gap between the best and the rest.
		The postcode lottery is a big issue in the NHS, where the gap between the rhetoric of a comprehensive and universal "national" service and the reality is increasingly stretched.
		The concept of a postcode lottery is also a by-product of patients and consumers becoming more aware: patient groups have become more adept at lobbying for their consumer "rights" to drugs and services and the well-targeted survey with its shock findings of a "postcode lottery" is a key weapon in their campaigning armoury.
	society.guardian.co.uk /nhsperformance/story/0,8150,395004,00.html (693 words)

	The UK Postcode Lottery - The UK Postcode Lottery
		She scooped £25,000 as the overall winner of the Postcode Lottery, plus a further £1,000 in Street Prizes.
		Her postcode NE9 came up a few weeks ago and she won £50 as a Sector Winner in that draw.
		Andrew Jennings, 33, from Cramlington is the 29th winner of the Postcode Lottery, scooping a whopping £25,000.
	www.postcodelottery.co.uk (407 words)

	Lottery Insider -- Lottery Weekly Newsletter Vol.30 No.6
		The National Postcode Lottery is the top private fundraiser for charity in the Netherlands.
		From agent to stockist to the role of organizer of various state lotteries, his dedication has seen him rise from very humble beginning to a phenomenal success in the field of lotteries.
		The Missouri Lottery is launching a new text messaging service that will allow players to receive the winning numbers on their cell phones, pagers or PDAs.
	www.lotteryinsider.com /vol30/no6.htm (3286 words)

	POSTCODE LOTTERY DRUG PLEA ; Alzheimer's cash shock
		But patients with the brain disease in other parts of the UK are more likely to get the treatment as health bosses spend up to four times more on medication.
		Sonia Senior, regional manager for the Alzheimer's Society, said: 'There is a postcode lottery situation where in some areas people find it easier to get antidementia drugs while other places don't have that facility.
		The usage in the area of antidementia drugs is less than the national average, but this does not necessarily mean that patients do not have access to the drugs they need,' added Mr Barnes.
	mpelembe.mappibiz.com /archives/Post-Code_Lottery.html (358 words)

	GoodFund - Postcode Lottery
		The charity lottery organiser has just handed over its first cheque to a local environmental charity from the proceeds of the North East Postcode Lottery.
		Groundwork is one of six permanent beneficiaries in the region that have received a total of £11,060 from proceeds of the first four monthly lottery draws organised by the North East Postcode Lottery.
		More information on GoodFund or the Postcode Lottery can be obtained by visiting the websites www.goodfund.org or www.postcodelottery.co.uk.
	www.goodfund.org /postcodelottery/www/news/groundworknews.asp (320 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Postcode lottery in rape convictions
		The number of rapes reported to police that end in a conviction depends on a "postcode lottery" which sees convictions fluctuating between 1% and 14% depending on where you live.
		The Home Office figures for 2004 were released yesterday as ministers put forward a package of reforms aimed at boosting the plummeting conviction rate for rape, now at an all-time low of 5.29% of crimes reported in England and Wales.
		It highlights the rape postcode lottery and unequal access around the country to rape crisis centres, sexual assault referral centres and specialist domestic violence courts.
	www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,,1742641,00.html (581 words)

	Postcode lottery for cancer care not acceptable - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		THE postcode lottery which decides how quickly women diagnosed with breast cancer are treated is inhumane.
		It is harrowing enough for anyone to be told they have the disease without then having to wait months for treatment - all the time fearing the cancer is spreading - simply because of where they live.
		Though they'll just be seven when they take part in the opening and closing ceremonies, at least they guarantee Scotland will be represented.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/opinion/7021222.html (340 words)

	The UK Postcode Lottery - Contact us
		Postcode = ticket number Your postcode is your ticket number.
		The UK Postcode Lottery is promoted by GoodFund.
		The operator is Postcode Lottery Limited, registered company No. 4862732.
	www.postcodelottery.co.uk /web/show/id=44941 (183 words)

	Newsvine - Patients denied drugs in NHS postcode lottery
		Patients with cancer, heart disease and mental illness are being denied drugs and lifesaving treatment thanks to a postcode lottery of care in the NHS.
		The conclusions are particularly disturbing because Labour has made spending on cancer, heart disease and mental health its three most important priorities in healthcare, consuming the highest sums of new NHS spending.
		MPs last night condemned the postcode lottery and said that ministers should immediately investigate whether funding shortfalls are affecting patient care and leading to higher death rates.
	ultimategfx.newsvine.com /_news/2006/08/08/317747-patients-denied-drugs-in-nhs-postcode-lottery (380 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Lotto handouts are postcode lottery
		They are the Big Lottery, which was created last year from the merger of the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, Scottish Screen, SportScotland and the Scottish Arts Council.
		More than 20,000 individual lottery awards have been made in Scotland, the largest being the £17.7 million given to the National Library of Scotland to allow it to acquire the John Murray publishing archive.
		Dharmendra Kanani, the director of the Big Lottery Fund Scotland, said: "As the largest of the good cause lottery distributors, the Big Lottery Fund is constantly looking at where applications are coming from and trying to ensure that people from across Scotland are receiving a fair share of lottery funding across the programmes we run.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1807132005 (1285 words)

	ePolitix.com - Cancer treatment still a 'postcode lottery' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The treatment of cancer is still a postcode lottery for people living in England, according to a report published by the public accounts committee.
		A report published on Tuesday calls on the Department of Health and the NHS to identify exactly where there are such inequalities, and address the causes behind them in a bid to improve cancer survival rates.
		Chemotherapy treatment was found to be a particularly acute "postcode lottery", and waiting times for radiotherapy are too long throughout the country.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200501/0812e676-64e2-4fa8-95f7-9d20be21b26f.htm (635 words)

	National Postcode Lottery
		The Postcode Lottery, the youngest Lottery organisation (founded in 1989) in The Netherlands, is on the brink of a huge (inter)national expansion and (legal)challenges.
		Sixty percent of the gross turnover of the Nationale Postcode Lottery goes to the beneficiaries in the field of conservation of nature, environment protection, development aid and human rights organisations.
		The National Postcode lottery is a strong opponent of the new governmental policy proposals for the Dutch gambling industry, including extending (double) the number of licences for charity lotteries.
	www.lotteryinsider.com /lottery/postcode.htm (937 words)

	Heart attack survival is a postcode lottery - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Specialists at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary examined cardiac deaths in the Lothians and part of the Borders area over a decade from December 1991 to August 2001 to establish whether a postcode lottery existed.
		They found that despite living in more rural areas, those who had a heart attack in their home in areas of Peebles, Linlithgow and Haddington, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, were most likely to survive.
		The paper Surviving Out Of Hospital Cardiac Arrest At Home: A Postcode Lottery?, which is published in the September issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal, concludes: “The geographical location of an arrest can potentially influence survival.
	www.sundayherald.com /45023 (738 words)

	Postcode Lottery: Echézeaux 1996/1999 Tasting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The kudos attached to where you live is governed by your postcode, a boundary can double or half the price of your abode depending upon which way you cross it.
		It is a similar case in Burgundy; for postcode read AC status, Grand Cru, Premier or Village.
		Thankfully we have noble wine tasting societies such as CECWINE to organize such events and last week I sampled nine Echézeaux in order to discern whether the postcodes of these wines assign to the leafy suburb of Dulwich, or closer to the marauding BMX-bandits on the dystopian council estate.
	www.wine-journal.com /cec_echezeaux_tasting.html (1228 words)

	The Scotsman - Health - Executive drugs plan 'won't end postcode lottery' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Malcolm Chisholm, the health minister, heralded the fact yesterday that the SMC would be given greater powers to ensure that patients were not deprived of "unique" drugs just because of where they live and that these must be made universally available within three months of approval.
		A spokesman for the Scottish Executive defended the decision to ensure that the end to "postcode prescribing" only related to unique drugs because these were drugs for which there were no other alternatives.
		He said that when alternatives to the drugs existed it would be up to health boards to decide whether they should be prescribed according to local needs, but it did not mean that the alternatives used were inferior.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /health.cfm?id=1298412003 (639 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| English women lose out in Herceptin's 'postcode lottery'
		The "postcode lottery" surrounding the potentially life-saving drug means that women in Wales do not have to pay for the treatment at the Royal Shrewsbury hospital because Herceptin provision is funded by their health board.
		But women in the early stages of breast cancer who live in England must raise the £30,000 a year cost themselves, because their primary care trust will not foot the bill.
		Mr Paterson said this had led to "a classic postcode lottery" at the Royal Shrewsbury because English women were not getting the same treatment as their Welsh neighbours.
	www.guardian.co.uk /medicine/story/0,,1750575,00.html (646 words)

	BBC Inside Out - Postcode lottery
		Inside Out compares three areas in the West whose residents feel they are losing out in the postcode lottery.
		The residents most short changed in the postcode lottery however, are those of Lawrence Hill.
		Type in your postcode, and www.upmystreet.com will reveal your nearest shops and services, schools, childcare, public transport, property prices, and crime figures.
	www.bbc.co.uk /insideout/west/series2/short_changed_local_area_services_estates_facilities_transport_crime.shtml (739 words)

	Government to eliminate 'postcode lottery' for NHS continuing care : The Department of Health - Pubs and stats: Press ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Government to eliminate 'postcode lottery' for NHS continuing care : The Department of Health - Pubs and stats: Press releases
		Government to eliminate 'postcode lottery' for NHS continuing care
		The Government is set to eliminate the ‘postcode lottery’ for NHS continuing care by creating one national system for everyone in England.
	www.dh.gov.uk /PublicationsAndStatistics/PressReleases/PressReleasesNotices/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4136413&chk=VybTtk (610 words)

	Health Care News: Prescription Drugs Rationed by Lottery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The simplest way to describe this nonsensical approach to rationing pharmaceutical drugs is to call it a health care lottery based on a consumer's zip code.
		The "lucky" postcode can change and seems to be based on political expediency rather than medical necessity.
		You no longer qualify for the medication, because the free postcode moved across the street or across town, and you didn't.
	www.heartland.org /archives/health/dec01/lottery.htm (269 words)

	Working Towards Ending The Postcode Lottery Of Infertility Treatment : The Department of Health - Pubs and stats: Press ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Government acted today to tackle the postcode lottery of infertility treatment.
		That postcode lottery has to end now, given the scale of extra resources we are putting into the NHS.
		Bit by bit NICE is ending at the lottery of care.
	www.dh.gov.uk /PublicationsAndStatistics/PressReleases/PressReleasesNotices/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4007308&chk=O8hInH (941 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| higher news \| Postcode lottery for university entrants
		Whether school leavers go to university is almost entirely dependent on a postcode lottery which leaves people from "good" areas six times more likely to make the leap than those from deprived areas, according to the biggest ever survey of students' backgrounds.
		The research casts serious doubt on the government's ability to meet its target of getting 50% of young people into higher education by 2010 and reveals the depth of class bias affecting young people's prospects.
		Whilst universities have a part to play, it is schools that have the responsibility todeliver young people with the qualifications, confidence and ambition to see a university-level education as a real option for them."
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/news/story/0,,1394348,00.html (697 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Postcode lottery for cardiac victims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Specialists at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary examined cardiac deaths in the Lothians and part of the Borders area from December 1991 to August 2001 to establish whether a so-called "postcode lottery" existed.
		In total, 12 per cent of patients survived to hospital admission and just four per cent survived until they were discharged from hospital.
		The research team found that patients in the EH31-37, 39, 40, 42, 47, 48, 52 and 55 postcode areas had a "significantly lower" rate of survival before reaching hospital compared with the rest of Lothian and the Borders, including Prestonpans, Tranent, Humbie, Bathgate and West Calder.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1131792004 (601 words)

	UNHCR - Dutch National Postcode Lottery makes unearmarked 1 million euro donation
		This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Jennifer Pagonis – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 28 January 2005, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
		Yesterday, UNHCR received an unearmarked 1 million euro donation from the National Postcode Lottery (NPL), the main charity lottery in the Netherlands.
		This is the third time that the NPL has given financial support to UNHCR since 2003, when we became one of the lottery's beneficiaries.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=41fa2f762b5&page=news (293 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Postcode lottery over prostate cancer drug
		THOUSANDS of prostate cancer sufferers in Scotland are facing a "postcode lottery" over a new treatment for the disease.
		Glasgow’s main cancer centre, the Beatson Institute, has stated it disagrees with the SMC’s decision and is prescribing the treatment using strict guidelines for patients they feel will benefit as Zometa is not effective in every case.
		The bones are the most common area prostate cancer spreads to, and one study estimated that 65 to 75 per cent of prostate and breast cancers spread to the skeleton.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=214052005 (733 words)

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