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Questionnaire and answer sessions
Information was collected on all publicly-funded admissions to residential or nursing care in both boroughs over a three-month period. With the written consent of clients or their carers, a detailed questionnaire was completed on each individual at the point of assessment, by the client's social worker or care manager. The ...
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Cut to the trace
Searching for patients who have been treated by a surgeon infected with a blood-borne virus can be a time-consuming task. Tracey McErlain-Burns looks at some of the lessons to be learned in one trust
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What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. The virus is found in the blood of people who have this disease, and is spread primarily by contact with the blood of an infected person.The main route of transmission in the UK is by injecting drug misusers ...
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NHS Executive pulls the plug on private schemes worth £58m
A trust is pressing for NHS capital funding after changes in a private consortium's financial figures forced the NHS Executive to axe four private finance initiative schemes last week.
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£1.1m is set aside for redundancy payouts
Managers at the country's first completed private finance initiative hospital have set aside £1.1m to fund anticipated redundancies among non-clinical staff, a tribunal heard.
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Publicly funded schemes losing more acute beds than PFI deals
More acute beds have been lost in publicly financed hospital building projects than in private finance initiative deals, NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates has claimed.
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Charities pay 10 per cent of London's health bill
Charities pay £500m - nearly 10 per cent - of London's annual health service bill of £5bn, according to research by the Charities Aid Foundation in association with the King's Fund. Most of the money was spent on hospice care, clinical equipment, refurbishment of hospitals and medical research. Around £214m ...
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Lincolnshire RAZ held up as model of joint working
A Home Office white paper outlining plans to tackle rural poverty and isolation, published this week, will praise Lincolnshire county council's rural action zone as a model of joint agency working to help tackle issues such as bed blocking. The Lincolnshire RAZ, also launched this week, follows the South Holland ...
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NICE approves combination therapy for hepatitis C
Combination drugs for hepatitis C have been recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. NICE said that patients suffering from moderate or severe hepatitis C should be given a combination of the drugs interferon alpha and ribavirin. Until June 1999, interferon alpha was the only licensed treatment for chronic ...
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Government launches £40m 'programmes for action'
The government has launched three programmes for action on orthopaedics, dermatologists and ear, nose and throat surgery. The programmes - for which funding of £40m was announced in August - aim to enable 'innovative practice', cut waiting times, improve patient access and reduce inequalities in provision of services. The programmes ...
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Man shot in car park of Oldchurch Hospital, Romford
A murder inquiry is under way after a man was shot in the car park of Oldchurch Hospital in Romford, Essex. Kenneth Beagle was hit in the head as he put money in the ticket machine at the hospital run by Havering Hospitals trust on Wednesday evening last week. A ...
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Shelved report deepens crisis over midwives' recruitment
The government's refusal to publish a joint royal colleges' report that warns of the closure or merger of up to 80 maternity units is causing confusion among midwives and adding to recruitment and retention problems.
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Help for refugee doctors seeking work in NHS
A government initiative that could help hundreds of qualified refugee doctors and dentists find work in the NHS was launched last week.
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Manager's £22,000 pay increase is a 'disgrace'
Unison has described a £22,000 pay award to a Lanarkshire health board senior manager as 'disgusting and a disgrace'.
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All the very best
Never has the imperative to strive for excellence been so crucial in the NHS. Quality, the government is at pains to point out, is now as important as cost in delivering services. All must emulate the best.
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HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: King's Healthcare trust Runner-up: Barts and the London trust
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FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull trust Runner-up: North Staffordshire Hospital trust