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Pension guidance released
The Department of Health has produced a guide for staff leaving NHS employment but wishing to continue their membership of the NHS pension scheme.The guidance also sets out advice about employer responsibilities for pension provision where staff have to leave the scheme.Read the guide here
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Overweight drivers urged to detox
The RAC Foundation has called for overweight drivers to look at their habits after finding that they are twice as likely to be killed or seriously injured in road accidents.Every hour spent behind the wheel increases the risk of obesity, says the charitable foundation.www.racfoundation.org
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Smoking cessation more successful in deprived areas, says report
Primary care trusts in areas of deprivation are providing the best approach to reducing smoking levels, says the Healthcare Commission in a report today.Half the PCTs rated excellent were in deprived areas where smoking is most prevalent.Read the report here
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Trusts prepare for hard sell to earn picky patients' custom
DoH guidelines have opened the door for hospitals to use commercial advertising techniques. Is this necessary for healthy competition or a green light for unseemly publicity battles? Kaye McIntosh hears some early pledges of fair play
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NHS North West: support older patients on choice
Older patients need more support in choosing where to have their elective surgery, research by NHS North West has shown.
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Report calls for 50pc funding boost
Spending on mental health services needs to rise by an extra 50 per cent if the government's targets in the national service framework are to be achieved, according to a leading charity.
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Labour PRs win SHA jobs
Two former New Labour PR gurus have been appointed directors of communications in strategic health authorities.
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Managers appeal for workforce planning 'reality check'
Managers are calling for health economists to be brought in to give workforce planning a 'reality check'.
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Unisons weighs options at troubled trust
Unions are considering industrial action in what they fear will be a bitter fight against cuts at one of the most financially troubled trusts in the UK.
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BMA: make targets more ambitious
The NHS should be set more ambitious targets, rather than lay off surplus staff once a maximum 18-week wait has been achieved, the British Medical Association has said.
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Doctors call for more allergy specialists
There is a need for more allergy specialists and better training for health professionals, a delegation of doctors from the medical royal colleges has told the Lords' science and technology committee.The committee is overseeing an ongoing investigation into allergy and allergic diseases.Find out more here
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Letters about NEDs
I write as an non-executive director from a disbanded primary care trust. Seen from here, the appointment process to the new PCTs was a farce.
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A new realism needed on CJD
Surely the time has come to end the monthly issue of CJD statistics. Last year's returns showed there were only five deaths from vCJD (7.5 per cent of total) compared with 62 deaths from non-vCJD. Peak mortality from vCJD was reached in 2000 when 28 deaths (34 per cent of ...
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Data on ISTCs' clinical quality is 'extremely poor', says Healthcare Commission
National data on the clinical quality of independent sector treatment centres is 'incomplete and of extremely poor quality', according to a review by the Healthcare Commission.
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Gerry Robinson and the NHS
Management guru Sir Gerry Robinson's televised stint at Rotherham foundation trust to reduce waiting lists might have worked better in a trust that has not already achieved so much to place it on a more business-like footing.
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Now Blair says ministers can fight closures
Tony Blair contradicts himself by giving his backing to Labour MPs who oppose hospital closure when he once instructed Labour politicians to give their backing to changes in local services
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New bursary scheme announced
The Department for Health has announced changes to the September 2007 NHS bursary scheme.Rent will become a deductible expense for all student nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and medical and dental students, when calculating their childcare allowances.The changes have been agreed with unions, and they include an increase in the ...
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BMA slams back-to-work cuts
The British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners have criticised the Government for making 'indefensible' cuts to back-to-work programs.In a joint statement, the BMA and RCGP say such cuts are exacerbating GP shortages and damaging patient care.They urge ministers to restore funding to the GP returner schemes ...
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Learning disabilities care 'outmoded and institutionalised'
The Healthcare Commission has found evidence of neglect of people with learning disabilities at Sutton and Merton primary care trust.'Outmoded and institutionalised' care was deemed to have led to the problems, according to a report from the regulator.It described some of the environments in which people lived as 'impoverished' and ...
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DoH publishes diagnostic waiting times
The Department of Health published the diagnostic test waiting times data for the month ending November 2006.This data shows the NHS' progress in tackling the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests.Click here to see the data