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Nurse consultant posts unveiled in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has introduced nurse consultant posts. Health and social services boards put forward 27 proposals, of which eight were selected by a taskforce set up in October last year. Each nurse consultant will spend at least half their time on clinical work. They will ...
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Trust chief chosen to head Turning Point charity
Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce has been appointed as a trustee and chair-designate of drink, drugs, mental health and learning difficulties charity Turning Point. Mr Joyce, who has faced alcohol and mental health problems of his own, said he was 'delighted' to accept leadership of the charity. ...
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RCN picks independent consultant as president
Independent consultant Roswyn Hakesly-Brown has been elected president of the Royal College of Nursing. Ms Hakesly-Brown is a member of the union's national forum co-ordinating committee and a clinical governance fellow at the West Midlands Partnership. She will begin a two-year term of office after the RCN's annual general meeting ...
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Community cancer care nets £23m lottery funding
The new opportunities fund has awarded £23m in lottery funding to community cancer care projects, focusing on particularly vulnerable communities. The 91 projects receiving funding will benefit people who are socially disadvantaged, isolated or hard-to-reach, including ethnic-minority communities, young patients and carers, and elderly people. Cancer awareness initiatives, 'hospice-at-home'schemes and ...
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Bristol heart figures improve on eve of inquiry report
The Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry into the management of the care of children receiving complex heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in the 1980s and early 1990s should be published early in the new year. Last week, the United Bristol Healthcare trust published its latest audit report for heart ...
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HIV charities in merger to address changing needs
Two of the UK's largest HIV charities have come together in one of the largest single mergers in the voluntary sector. The Terrence Higgins Trust and London Lighthouse have merged to create the Terrence Higgins Trust Lighthouse, which will have a turnover of more than £8m. Grainne Morby, acting chief ...
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Milburn owns up to CCT failures and announces a tougher regime
Trusts will have to measure support services against a central 'best-value' database, following the abolition of compulsory competitive tendering.
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HA-funded charity had 'weaknesses'
A charity commission investigation has concluded that the trustees of a Warrington-based charity for people with learning disabilities allowed themselves to become 'over-reliant' on the chief executive.
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Standards hazardous to health lead to £12,000 fine for hospital
Leicester Royal Infirmary has been fined £12,000 for breaching health and safety regulations.
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Towards the ideal
Thirty years ago when I was a student of healthcare organisation we were taught that the ideal healthcare system in the world was the NHS.
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WEB WATCH
We all love protocols and guidelines. They're so New NHS, and they provide the perfect defence when something goes wrong. Now, thanks to the publishers of those old treeware-based Guidelines and Guidelines in Practice, you can consult them without ever having to visit the hospital library.
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Scottish patients may get to see surgery mortality rates
Patients in Scotland could be given greater access to mortality rates for surgery teams under proposals to be put forward by consultants.
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'Patient flow' proposal for Wales
Acute general hospital services in Wales should in future be planned to match 'patient flows' rather than health authority and trust boundaries, according to the report of the acute services development group.
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Confed warning on revalidation
The process of revalidating doctors will be compromised if employers are not on the five-yearly assessment panels proposed by the General Medical Council, according to the NHS Confederation.
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'Tidy up' blamed for IHM's missing 1,500
The Institute of Healthcare Management has admitted to having just 8,500 members - up to 1,500 fewer than was claimed when it was formed in October last year.
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Blair spells out NHS promises
Prime minister Tony Blair used his speech at the Labour Party conference to hammer home the government's plans for the NHS, should it win a second term.
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PFI pioneer builds up backlog of 3,000 'unreported'x-rays
The country's first fully operational private finance initiative hospital has amassed a backlog of about 3,000 'unreported' x-rays since its official opening in April.
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PCT directorships - fantastic offer shoppers can refuse
Sheffield health authority has taken to the streets in search of non-executive directors for the city's new primary care trusts.
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Days like this
The Department of Health has issued 'contradictory' regulations on the role of community health councils, CHCs claim. Though they now have the right to represent patients when family health services authorities hear complaints against GPs, rules issued last week say CHCs have 'no role in the relationship between a GP ...