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The varieties of cultural experience
Culture, religion and patient care in a multi-ethnic society A handbook for professionals By Alix Henley and Judith Schott Age Concern Books 602 pages £19.99
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Bringing on the support act
Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals By Neil Bateman Jessica Kingsley 192 pages £15.95
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Money talks
In our occasional series profiling people in contrasting roles, Ann Dix quizzes two finance directors - one in a whole-service trust, the other in a PCT
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Clinical governance failures let 'cruel' practices go unchecked
The first two investigations by the Commission for Health Improvement have identified failures in clinical governance systems which allowed 'cruel practices' to go unchecked.
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Milburn targets deprived areas in three-year funding allocations
Deprived areas are set to benefit from health secretary Alan Milburn's announcement of the first three-year funding allocations for health authorities.
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Oxford Radcliffe trust brings out 'limited' cardiac unit review
A long-awaited investigation into staff relations and services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's cardiac unit was due to publish its findings yesterday.
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McKay appointment strengthens NHS Executive and regional offices
NHS deputy chief executive Neil McKay has been appointed chief operating officer for the health service in a move designed to strengthen NHS Executive headquarters at Quarry House in Leeds.
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150 million prescriptions 'await processing'
Shortages of generic drugs have produced 'a crisis' in prescription processing, the chief executive of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority has said.
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NICE 'not examining other benefits'of beta interferon
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been accused of failing to consider properly the wider cost-benefits to society of the multiple sclerosis drug, beta interferon.
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South East pay boost 'could divide nurses'
The government's announcement of extra payments for nurses in London and South East England has been criticised as 'divisive' amid rumours that it could result in a lower pay award for nurses nationally.
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HA rejects funding bias claim against PMS pilot
Allegations of political bias in funding for a personal medical service pilot run by a member of the NHS access taskforce have been dismissed as unfair by Salford and Trafford health authority.
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Seven days free access to the HSJ website archive
The HSJ website archive is being thrown open to anyone who wants to use it this week. The archive contains more than 4,000 documents, including 1,000 full-text news stories added this year alone, and offers access to everything that has ever appeared on the site. Although use of the searchable ...
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Denham rules out re-tendering Dudley PFI project
Health minister John Denham has intervened in the long-running Dudley Hospital private finance initiative dispute by issuing a statement confirming the government's refusal to re-tender the project.Mr Denham's statement came last week as 600 mainly ancillary workers staged a 12-day strike, the sixth in their campaign against transfer out of ...
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Breast-screening programme detections increase
The NHS breast-screening programme detected 10 per cent more cancers over the past year compared to 1998-99, and now exceeds the performance of the original study on which the programme was based, according to its latest annual report. The report, out last week, shows that the detection rate is now ...
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£5.2m private grant for asthma medicine research
Glasgow School of Respiratory Science is to receive a £5.2m grant from Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyorin to develop existing research into creating a range of asthma medicines. The National Asthma Campaign for Scotland has welcomed the investment as Scotland has seen a 50 per cent increase in asthma cases over ...
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Sacked Hillingdon dispute leader returns to work
The leader of the long-running Hillingdon Hospital dispute was last week back at work, two years after an employment tribunal ruled that she should have her job back. Malkiat Bilku led the three-year strike by 53 domestic and catering staff, and was sacked in 1995 for refusing to accept cuts ...
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'Superior' Scots NHS plan will demand speedy end to 'turf wars'
The Scottish health plan will 'differ from and better' the English NHS plan in key areas like tackling waiting lists, according to leaked drafts of the document seen by HSJ.