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Nurses to be given extended powers to prescribe
Around 10,000 nurses are to be given extended powers to prescribe a range of drugs and medicines for minor ailments and injuries, and chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes. Last week junior health minister Lord Hunt launched a consultation document on the plans, which arose from the 18-month-long Crown report, ...
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Ledward victims seek compensation from HA
Victims of the disgraced surgeon Rodney Ledward, who died from pancreatic cancer last month, say they will be seeking financial compensation from East Kent health authority. Detectives were on the verge of bringing charges against Mr Ledward, the self-styled 'fastest gynaecologist in the South East', and had been looking to ...
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NHS ordered to act now amid fears over winter
The NHS has been ordered to speed up the expansion of intermediate care services, spend more on social services and buy capacity from the private sector amid fears that it is facing a winter crisis.
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Nightmare as beds in homes'disappear'
'It's a nightmare. It's the single most intractable issue that we have ever had to face. Staff are quite exhausted by it and we haven't even started the winter yet.'
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Health workers 'most content'
Health sector workers are 'the most content' with their work life, compared with those in central and local government or the private sector, a survey has revealed.
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IoD attacks 'quangos and talking shops'
The Institute of Directors says the NHS Plan will result in more bureaucracy with 'more quangos, committees and other talking shops' in a new research paper Management, Mutuality and Risk: better ways to run the National Health Service.
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There is nothing, believe me, nothing, that Monitor loves more than an eagle-eyed reader. It is for you that a vast team of dedicated (if slow-witted) reporters and sub-editors toil, patiently painting in commas and apostrophes to meet your grudging approval. But reader, no-one is perfect, as Monitor once learnt ...
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People 'unable to pay more for elderly care'
A leading think-tank has cast doubt on the government's plans to push people into taking out secondary pensions and insurance to fund longterm care.
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Days like this
The internal market reforms are being discredited by the breakneck speed of their implementation, says King's Fund College director Gordon Best. He told HSJ that in 20 years he had 'never before seen such intense top-down political pressure. Honest dissent is now categorised as opposition'. He added: 'I know from ...
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It's lift-off for walk-in at airport
Health minister John Denham has opened the first NHS walk-in centre to be developed through a public-private partnership.
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Keeping 'em keen?
Are primary care professionals suffering from post-NHS plan tension? Health minister John Denham warned members of the NHS Alliance about this new syndrome. Ann McGauran reports
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Heard the one about the knight, the prof and the rabbi?
The modernisation action board is diverse, if nothing else. Alison Moore reports on the chemistry and mechanics at its first meeting
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Politicians can't swim against the silver tide
Soon elderly people will have so many votes that politicians will have to listen to them, the annual social services conference has been told. Tash Shifrin reports
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Finding their feet
Shaky beginnings maybe, but the Sure Start scheme is a sure-fire success with local people. Claire Laurent reports
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Cloud on the silver lining
The brighter outlook for those diagnosed with HIV is putting a financial strain on long-term support services. Laura Donnelly reports on how they are coping
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The long and the short of it is an all-round cash crisis
Government pension policies are pushing more people into a poverty trap
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A cultural flaw in the plan
Slow progress of quality reforms exposes the NHS plan's major weakness
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Cancel that taxi, it's NHSnet
In 1992, we were promised that all NHS organisations would be communicating across NHSnet by 1996.In 1998, we were promised that 100 per cent of computerised GPs would be on the net by the end of 1999.We have just been promised 95 per cent by 2001 and 100 per cent ...
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WEB WATCH
Poring over reports and attending hospital meetings doesn't sound like fun? You'd be surprised. . . Those are the words of trust nonexecutive Pauline Mistry. She goes on to explain how her role at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospitals trust involves 'sorting out the cock-ups' and 'disagreeing with some of the things ...
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Moment of madness ends cash injection triumph
As I write, they are discussing rail regulation, in the wake of the Hatfield crash, on Radio 4.But that was last week's disaster. A few minutes earlier they had been talking about this week's disaster: the renewed controversy over BSE triggered by the Phillips report, by the fresh scare in ...