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New TUC institute aims to boost industrial relations
The TUC this week launched a new consultancy to help public sector and private organisations improve industrial relations and develop partnership working between unions, employers and staff.The TUC Partnership Institute, headed by director Sarah Perman, is already working with five organisations on pilot projects involving unions and employers, including University ...
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Framework is 'key' to end mental health gap
The government must develop a national mental health services framework to help the thousands of 16 to 25-year-olds being failed by provision each year, according to the Mental Health Foundation.
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'Deprived' HAs will not be 'stuck on red' as traffic light is tweaked
The controversial traffic-lights system for measuring performance will be adjusted to ensure that NHS organisations in deprived areas are not stuck on red, promises the Department of Health.
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'Concordat'boom for private sector
The 'concordat' between the NHS and the independent healthcare sector has sparked a sharp rise in health service work contracted to private hospitals.
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Body of evidence
The media frenzy over the 'corpses in the chapel' led to the resignation of the trust chief executive. But mortuary facility crises are not confined to Bedford. Ann McGauran reports
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'Bedford is not alone'
Could pathology, including mortuary services, now be a 'Cinderella'area suffering as chief executives are forced to concentrate on the waiting-list initiative?
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Tragic irony
Is the murder of eight-year-old Anna Climbie a tragic one-off or proof that an overhaul of the child protection system is needed? Thelma Agnew reports on how opinions have been polarised
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Fancy that
The latest initiative to improve hospital food caught the headlines with its 'celeb chefs', but can it succeed where others haven't, asks Lyn Whitfield
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'Mass caterers got us into this mess'
Loyd Grossman, best known as the Through the Keyhole presenter with strangled vowels, is heading the panel of celebrities 'overseeing' the overhaul of hospital food. He has a long record as a food journalist - as a restaurant critic for Harpers and Queen and presenter of Masterchef. But it is ...
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'Caveman catering'
The NHS plan says half of all hospitals must have 'ward housekeepers' by 2004 to ensure food from the new menus is served hot and well presented and that patients can eat it.
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NHS catering: the dismal reality
You are a middle-aged man coming round from a minor but painful op in a sensitive area. What would you like to eat? Chicken soup, an egg and cress sandwich, jacket potato and chocolate mousse? That was supper one December evening for Roy Whitfield at Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon. ...
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Pillow talk
The Patient Power initiative will make life easier for patients - though at a cost - with a bedside TV and phone and potentially the Internet. Seamus Ward reports
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Bedtime stories: 'I hadn't realised how important communications are for patients'
Frank Arnold, managing director of Unicorn Hospital Communications, knows better than most the frustration of not being able to phone his relatives from a hospital bed.
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Programme of success
As with many of the other trusts that have installed bedside TV and phone units, Leicester Royal Infirmary reports some initial opposition to the charges. But Anne MacGregor, the trust's public relations manager, says it is now well-received and the trust and Patientline help patients who cannot afford the service.
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Let's spend the cash together
To go it alone, join other trusts or contract out? Seamus Ward looks at challenges facing NHS procurement purchasers
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One-stop management
For many trusts, outsourcing procurement will be driven by the need to meet the government's 3 per cent efficiency target but Milton Keynes General trust had other pressing concerns when it recently awarded a contract to Drager Medical to manage its electro-medical equipment procurement.
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In a domestic vacuum?
A toilet like the one in the film Trainspotting was just one of the horrors flushed out by hospital cleanliness inspectors, but will government clean-up plans get to the root of the problem, asks Alison Moore
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Stainspotting: the patient's perspective
When someone describes a toilet as being like the one in the film Trainspotting you know It is bad - but it is especially shocking to find that the toilet is in a hospital.