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Breast screening unit at centre of audit 'had no system for picking up on clerical errors'
The breast screening unit auditing over 100,000 files of past patients did not have an adequate system to detect clerical errors, and is one of the only units in the country not to employ a superintendent radiographer to oversee its mammography service.
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'Minority of one'chair resigns in wake of NHS plan difficulties
The chair of a leading West Midlands trust which reported 'turbulence' over the implementation of the NHS plan has resigned after finding himself in 'a minority of one' on the board.
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Devon's two health authorities have joined with the county council in an emergency aid package to help keep local private sector nursing homes open. Devon social services director David Johnstone said the problem was 'particularly acute'for some specialist homes, which could 'cause major problems to local hospitals'. A jointly financed ...
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RCN staff in industrial action threat after 'hamfisted' tactics
Royal College of Nursing staff are considering a revised pay offer of 3. 7 per cent from 1 April, but it appears unlikely that it will be enough to prevent them threatening some degree of industrial action, including a possible boycott of the college's congress in May.
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Doubts cast on PFI's ability to meet hospital expansion plan
Plans for a massive hospital building programme have been given the thumbs up from most health service organisations - and construction companies. But there are doubts over whether the companies set up to carry out private finance initiative work will be able to meet the rapid expansion plans, particularly for ...
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Legal threats suspend regional fix on PCT jobs
North West regional office has been forced to suspend the appointment of new primary care trust chief executives after it faced the threat of legal action after claims that the procedure was flawed.
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Trust sacks chief cleared of sex offence
A chief executive cleared of sexual harassment at an employment tribunal has been sacked by his trust.
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GMC prepares for huge drive to clear 200 conduct cases
The General Medical Council plans to clear a backlog of over 200 professional misconduct cases by the end of the year, and to ensure its new governance arrangements are ready for ministers by the end of May.
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MPs pour scorn on 'dental hit squads'
Plans for a dental hit squad met howls of derision from MPs last week.
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Demoralised Scots GPs report more stress and bureaucracy
A survey of almost two-thirds of Scotland's 3,570 GPs reveals a demoralised profession which believes that bureaucracy and red tape are causing organisational chaos within the NHS.
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Wales' NHS plan unimpeded by members'cold feet
Welsh Assembly officials say implementation of Wales'NHS plan will go ahead 'from now', despite Assembly members' refusal to ratify it last week. Debate on the plan was adjourned before the vote, after members raised a series of concerns, particularly over the lack of specific targets. Conservative William Graham moved an ...
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Opposition MSPs claim 'watering down'of free care
Scottish opposition MSPs have reacted angrily to what they see as an attempt to water down the Executive's commitment to providing free care for elderly people. The Executive tabled an amendment to a motion by the health and community care committee, changing a pledge to act upon the recommendations of ...
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Chlamydia to be key part of sexual health strategy
The government's long-delayed sexual health and HIV strategy will appear next month as a consultation paper. Michael Adler, professor of genito-urinary medicine at Royal Free and University College medical school, who has led the steering group drawing up the strategy, told HSJ that a roll-out of chlamydia screening - currently ...
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Three patients behind 150 per cent rise in attacks
Three patients were responsible for a 150 per cent increase in violent attacks on staff at a Teesside hospital trust. Staff at South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough General, and North Riding Infirmary have suffered 79 physical assaults since April last year, compared to 31 attacks in the previous year. One patient ...
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Nurses may monitor drink or drug-crime prisoners
Nurses may be asked to work in police cells in a bid to improve the monitoring of prisoners arrested for drink or drugs offences. Police chiefs in Cheshire are considering the move as part of a plan to introduce centralised 'custody suites' staffed by qualified nurses, cutting the risk to ...
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monitor
Monitor was slow to respond to the advances shown by the Impotence Association, recognising (though not in a judgemental way) that its newsletter, One in Ten, had landed on the wrong desk. Still, 'No-one wants to be Mr Droopy', as Uncle Graham used to say, so before tactfully passing the ...
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Dear Mel. . .
Your otherwise excellent summary of the career of Nye Bevan (8 February) was lacking in just one respect - his deep devotion to the cause of improving audiology services on the NHS. As you will know, it was dear old Ernie himself who said that, as minister, he felt that ...
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Strong grounds for complaint
I wrote to all 99 health authority chief executives in December, asking for a copy of their annual report to see what they are doing on patient and public involvement (PPI), and look at the content and consistency of complaints reporting.
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Milburn gathers plenty of ammunition to 'shoot his Fox'
'Well, well, well, surprise, surprise. ' Dr Liam Fox, the Tory health spokesman and George W Bush lookalike, spoke for the nation when he responded to Alan Milburn's announcement of 29 new hospital building projects in tones of not-so-gentle irony.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name David Hinchliffe MP Job Chair, Commons health select committee Style Old Labour with added influence. Wakefield MP with mining ancestors going back to 1750s. Not afraid to put matters bluntly, 'as a Yorkshireman. . . 'Not afraid of much else either, as tobacco barons called before the select committee ...