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Cleanliness inspection results may be swept under the carpet
Results of individual hospital cleanliness inspections may not be made public until after the election.
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In brief: Private healthcare
Private healthcare is the most buoyant industry in the UK for employment, with public sector healthcare at number two in the 19 key sectors surveyed, according to Manpower's quarterly survey of employment prospects.
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In brief: Medway Maritime Hospital
Medway Maritime Hospital has apologised following the death of a woman with Down's Syndrome who had to wait nine hours on a trolley in the accident and emergency department before being admitted to a proper hospital bed. A spokeswoman said Brenda Marshall's family had asked for her to remain on ...
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has written to all trusts reinforcing his message to the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency conference that they must not shy away from making 'difficult decisions' about employing purchasing staff. He said that having a single purchasing centre covering several organisations could be more cost-effective ...
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In brief: World Health Organisation
The World Health Organisation has launched a year-long campaign to tackle the stigma of mental illness. 'Stop exclusion - dare to care' hopes to draw worldwide attention to the failure of governments to provide adequate means of treatment and address discrimination.
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In brief: Unison
Unison's retired general secretary, Rodney Bickerstaffe, has left a green legacy - he has helped lead a campaign to plant 16,000 trees in a bid to counter global warming.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched the government's strategy for the future of dentistry, giving a commitment that, from September, anyone wanting to see an NHS dentist can do so by phoning NHS Direct.
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Trust stands by paediatrician in Climbie case
A trust involved in the care of murdered eight-year-old Anna Climbie is standing by the paediatrician who diagnosed the child with scabies and sent her home to her abusers.
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Chief had known 'for years' of bodies in the chapel
Bedford Hospital chief executive Ken Williams had known for several years about the practice of using the chapel of rest as a temporary mortuary, which caused outrage when photographs of seven bodies wrapped in sheets on the floor were published in the press.
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CHCs struggling to cope in countdown to abolition
Patients may be left in the lurch as complaints services begin to fall apart ahead of the planned formal abolition of community health councils in 2002.
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Staffing crisis gives MSF second thoughts on public-private partnership for lab services
A decision on a public-private partnership for laboratory services in all trusts should be postponed for 'a couple of years' until staffing has stabilised, according to health union MSF.
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Food team digests local preferences
Plans for all hospitals to serve hot evening meals after 5.30pm have been watered down to reflect regional differences.
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LGA steps up campaign for an equal voice on care trust boards
The Local Government Association is calling for membership of care trust boards to be based on a principle of equal representation for health and local government.
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HAs in deprived areas will lose extra millions in funding revamp
Health authorities in some of the most deprived areas in the country have expressed serious concerns that a new method of allocating inequalities payments has deprived them of millions of pounds of extra funding.
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Rampton nurses may strike over new shift patterns
Nurses at Rampton Special Hospital have withdrawn goodwill and are to ballot on industrial action over new shift patterns which managers say would improve patient care.Around 700 members of the Prison Officers'Association are protesting at the change from working three 12.5-hour shifts a week to five shifts of 7.5 hours. ...
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Trusts get green light to profit from own products
The NHS is to be able to to protect its intellectual property rights through the formation of companies to manufacture new health products. A clause in the Health and Social Care Bill will allow trusts to become shareholders in new companies to make and sell prducts which have been developed ...
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Conservatives attack latest DoH waiting-list claims
The number of patients waiting for an NHS operation fell by 3,600 during November, according to the Department of Health. The total number of patients waiting in England stood at 156,960 - 137,000 fewer than March 1997.
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BMA fears bill could thwart even distribution of GPs
Clauses in the Health and Social Care Bill could lead to an uneven distribution of family doctors, warns the British Medical Association. Clause 17 abolishes the medical practices committee, which has always controlled the distribution of GPs in England and Wales. 'Abolition of the committee, devolving its functions to individual ...
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Struck-off doctors accidentally listed on website
A website which claimed to be a guide to good doctors included two who had been struck off last year, and also wrongly described a third, according to the BMA News Review. The Good Doctor site, whose major shareholder is Alliance Unichem Group, included disgraced gynaecologist Richard Neale, who worked ...
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Confed's HR director in storm over working hours
Andrew Foster, human resources director of the NHS Confederation, is at the centre of a row with junior hospital doctors, who are furious at comments he made in the Financial Times, which implied that thousands of doctors were being deceitful about their hours of work. Mr Foster claimed that only ...