All articles by Charlotte – Page 24
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Few women doctors have board-level responsibilities, says RCP
Few women doctors have management responsibility at board level, a Royal College of Physicians investigation has found.
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Confed urges trusts to open up to avoid FOI deluge
NHS organisations are being urged to become more transparent in light of a steep increase in requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Birmingham mental health trust appoints medical director
Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust has appointed a new medical director.
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Trusts with high death rates to be named
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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Monitor chairman Moyes targeted over expenses claims
The Sunday Times has targeted Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes in the latest round of expenses claims stories.
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NHS trust director to lead national review of welfare system
An NHS trust director is to lead a national review of how the welfare system treats people with mental health conditions.
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Massive variation in London child obesity
Childhood obesity levels vary by more than 100 per cent between primary care trusts within London.
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Trainee NHS doctors being told to lie about long working hours
NHS staff are being encouraged to lie about their hours to make trusts appear to be compliant with the European working time directive, according to figures seen exclusively by HSJ.
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Swine flu confirmed in further 47 people
Swine flu has been confirmed in a further 47 patients, the majority of whom are children.
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NHS Employers names director
NHS Employers has named its new director after months without a permanent head.
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Review of working time directive came too late, say doctors
Doctors’ leaders are questioning why the Department of Health has waited until three months before the European working time directive comes into force to review its effect on training.
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Medics warned: train or lose pay
Clinicians at a trust facing a £20m fine for missing infection targets have received an email threatening to suspend them without pay unless they prove they can follow hygiene policies.
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A third of NHS hospitals could miss EWTD deadline
Up to 28 per cent of hospital rotas risk missing August’s deadline for complying with the European working time directive, strategic health authorities are predicting.
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Maidstone inspection finds change was slow
Some measures to improve hygiene at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust after infection outbreaks between 2004 and 2006 were not implemented until March this year, HSJ has learned.
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Foreign NHS nurses jailed for fraud
Two nurses have been jailed for fraud after using false documents to study and work in Britain.
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Restricted emails reveal MMC tensions
Behind the scenes tensions over the viability of a consultant-led NHS have been revealed in a series of restricted Department of Health documents.
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Derby City primary care trust appoints director
Derby City primary care trust has appointed a new strategy and market management director.
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Tories propose junior nurse NHS board members
Junior nurses would sit on trust boards under pilot schemes being proposed by the Conservative Party.
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Prison nurse jailed after falsifying passport
A Zimbabwean nurse who used a falsified passport to get a job working with substance misusers at Holloway Prison has been jailed for a year.
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Blogs
They're Goodfellas at the CQC
I wonder what the NHS will make of Baroness Young’s announcement that the Care Quality Commission wants to “do a number” on failing organisations. It’s the kind of shadowy threat you’d expect from a Martin Scorsese gangster rather than the chair of a public services regulator.