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SHA configuration 'too diffuse to be effective'
A meeting of senior health, local government and business representatives in the West Midlands last week reached a consensus that the planned configuration of strategic health authorities and regions will be too large and diffuse to engage effectively with trusts, primary care trusts and local authorities.Participants at the meeting of ...
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Patients with dementia given home-living boost
A £60,000 project in Northampton is allowing patients with dementia to live at home for an extra six months by providing them with a range of specialist electronic devices.So far,18 people aged between 50 and 96 have used the scheme, with an interim report finding savings ranged from £900 to ...
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Bed-blocking in Birmingham puts NHS plan waiting targets at risk
Bed-blocking in Birmingham is at crisis levels with 'the equivalent of a hospital full' of people awaiting discharge, and work towards achieving NHS plan targets badly hit.
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Climate of change delays free nursing
The organisational changes currently underway in the health service were a key factor in the government's decision to delay full implementation of free nursing care paid for by the NHS.
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Contract talks gather momentum
The process of negotiating a new national contract for GPs, being led by the NHS Confederation, was formally started last week with the publication of a statement of intent from the confederation and the British Medical Association's GP committee.
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Many happy returns?
Efforts to lure nurses both in the UK and from overseas into the health service - and keep them there - have met with a mixed response.Anne Gulland reports on progress so far
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First base: elastic pledges on numbers
Is a pledge still a pledge when it has an elastic deadline?
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Cause and effect
How do chief executives feel about the latest NHS reorganisation? A survey of reactions to Shifting the Balance revealed some disturbing findings.