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Taken short: the digital approach
The current shortage of nursing staff willing to take up an NHS contract has firmly shifted the balance of power away from trusts and towards the agencies, contributing to the rapid increase in agency costs since the mid-1990s. But one company claims it can reverse this trend.
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The NHS plan envisages autonomy for primary care trusts and multiagency providers. But is the data available adequate for monitoring whether these agencies are operating according to the plan's principles for providing a public service?
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Will Evans has been appointed director of Harrow's Unified Mental Health Services, which will bring health and social services together to provide integrated care from next April. Since 1998, he has been director of nursing, quality and mental health for Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare trust.
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£70m earmarked to treat dangerous disorders
The Home Office is putting £70m behind a threeyear programme of pilot projects for treating people with dangerous severe personality disorder.
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24 reach shortlist for HSJ management awards night
Twenty-four entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist.
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News in brief: British Heart Foundation survey
Ninety-four per cent of 156 British MPs who responded to a British Heart Foundation survey did not take enough exercise to protect their health, with 85 per cent blaming long hours and 58 per cent 'social commitments' for not managing to take 30 minutes of physical exercise five times per ...
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News in brief: Bairbre de Brun
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has indicated support for co-operation with health services in the Irish Republic. In a speech to a British Medical Association conference, she said there was 'most' scope for joint work on ambulance services, emergency pressures, waiting lists and transferring patients who needed specialised ...
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News in brief: Flu vaccination
The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has launched a £1. 8m flu vaccination programme and public information campaign, aimed particularly at over 65-year-olds.
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News in brief: Jane Hutt
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has reopened the cardiac catheter laboratories of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, which have been refurbished at a cost of £1. 25m.
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News in brief: Ethnic minorities
The British Medical Association's GPs'committee has written to the Commission for Racial Equality expressing 'grave concerns' about the 'victimisation' of single-handed GPs in the NHS plan. The majority of such GPs come from ethnic minorities.
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News in brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has said he will set up a national group to implement recommendations made by the Royal College of Surgeons last year on the future of kidney services. Patients, health professionals and clinicians will be involved. The college proposed to reduce the number of transplant units ...
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Anti-poverty policies may save 10,000 lives
More than 10,000 premature deaths per year will be saved if the government persists with policies to combat poverty and reduce health inequalities, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'
People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.
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Public inquiry into Shipman case crimes confirmed
Health secretary Alan Milburn has confirmed that there will be a public inquiry into the issues surrounding the crimes committed by Hyde GP Harold Shipman, convicted in January of killing 15 of his patients and forging the will of one of them. Mr Milburn was ordered to rethink his decision ...
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Delegation of Dudley strikers meets health minister
Health minister John Denham and NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates last week met a delegation of striking Unison members from Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. About 600 mainly ancillary workers have voted for a fifth strike - for 10 days from Monday - against their transfer ...
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One in three physiotherapists comes from abroad
A report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has found that one in three physiotherapists entering the UK labour market comes from overseas, with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand the main sources. Most enter the UK for short periods and work in temporary positions in the NHS. CSP chief ...
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Lay group formed to lobby for PCT board changes
A National Association of Lay People in Primary Care has been launched to lobby for changes in the board structure of primary care trusts. Nicholas Reeves, the association's founder and a lay member of Acton and Ealing primary care group in London, said there was a danger that the 'expertise' ...