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NICE fertility guidance leaves HAs struggling
Health authorities must be allowed sufficient time to implement new guidance on fertility treatment from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to ensure they can meet the financial and resource implications, according to NHS managers.
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'Investing for health' plans to lower NI mortality rate
NHS managers will be expected to produce 'health and well-being investment plans' in a bid to rid Northern Ireland of some of the highest mortality and morbidity rates in the world, health minister Bairbre de Brun has announced.
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Trust board rejects PFI merger proposal
A controversial private finance initiative scheme has hit renewed trouble, with the board of one of the trusts involved rejecting a crucial merger plan.
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Cervical screening at same level as five years ago
The proportion of women in England screened for cervical cancer has remained unchanged since 1995, with a persistent 16 per cent who do not have regular smears, according to the latest report from the cervical cancer screening programme.
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Bedblock set to hit trust's £1m savings
A cash-strapped Scottish trust has revealed that it has made £1m in savings on wages but will have to spend an extra £1m on tackling bedblocking this winter.
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Job-limbo woman sues
A hospital consultant is suing the Scottish health trust that made her redundant after a five-year dispute.
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PCGs 'must go complementary'
All primary care groups should provide complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a report by the House of Lords select committee on science and technology.
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Strategy for HIV remains elusive despite an extra £41m in funding
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced an extra £41m next year to tackle soaring numbers of people living with HIV and AIDS. But there is still no sign of the long-delayed draft sexual health and HIV strategy, which is now not expected until the new year.
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Security crackdown planned for special hospitals
Patients are to be banned from receiving food or tobacco sent from outside Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton special hospitals as part of a security and safety crackdown announced last week by health minster John Hutton. He also announced that patients are to be routinely tested for illicit substances and there ...
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'Battles' inevitable if medical committee is abolished
The medical practices committee is urging the government to reconsider proposals laid out in the NHS plan to abolish it.
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MPs' group to push for improved maternity services
Julia Drown MP has launched the all-party parliamentary maternity group, set up to campaign for improvements in maternity services. The group, launched last week with the backing of Royal College of Midwives general secretary Karlene Davis, will be pressing the government to set national standards in maternity services to ensure ...
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Views sought on organ retention after post-mortem
The Scottish Executive is to seek the views of the public on the retention of organs after post-mortem examinations. A review group, set up by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon and chaired by Professor Sheila McLean, is investigating previous practice in relation to hospital post-mortems and post-mortems required by law. ...
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Test case may clarify UKCC 'judge and jury' concern
Fears that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by acting as judge and jury in misconduct cases could be clarified in a test case which started last week. The Royal College of Nursing, with the support of the ...
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NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines
Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.
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Days like this
All but 10 of the 66 applications for the first-wave of trusts have been approved, although consultants Coopers and Lybrand, which appraised all the applications, say only 14 are financially watertight.
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Elderly 'too scared to complain'
Older people are frightened to complain about NHS services for fear of reprisals, and those who do are unlikely to get a response for months if not years, according to a new report from Age Concern.
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Finders, keepers
Can the UK's largest employer solve acute staffing shortages in all sectors? Jeremy Davies reports