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Bastards let us down: NHS Direct bidder
The main rivals for the software contract to complete the roll-out of NHS Direct have reacted bitterly to news that French insurance company Axa Assistance has won the £68m-a-year deal.
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Milburn's promise of help to assess bed needs welcomed
NHS managers have welcomed health secretary Alan Milburn's promise to provide them with a 'model' to help calculate the numbers of beds needed in the NHS, despite warnings that the initiative is unnecessary and centralist.
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Intermediate care model 'more expensive'
An evalutation of an intermediate care unit at Southampton General Hospital has found that the model is more expensive than acute hospital care and produces no added benefits for patients.
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In brief: Health partners
The Local Government Association has written to all local authorities with a five- point plan that urges them to work with 'health partners' to develop effective, yearlong strategies to improve social care for older people and eradicate bed-blocking.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched a 'national plan for pharmacy', promising that by 2004 prescriptions will be routinely issued by e-mail, NHS Direct will send callers to pharmacies if appropriate and to improve use of an 'action team' for medicines.
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In brief: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
More than 9.5 million people cannot afford to keep their homes decently heated,4 million cannot afford fresh fruit and vegetables or two meals a day, and 6.5 million cannot afford a warm, waterproof coat a major study of poverty by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has established.
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In brief: NHS counter-fraud
Contact details for information about training in NHS counter-fraud were given incorrectly in 'Cut to the Chase' (news focus, page 12,31 August).Training manager David Snell can be reached on 01189-505669 or e-mail David.Snell@cfos. nhs. uk The modular course referred to leads to an accredited counter- fraud specialist qualification, compulsory for ...
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Respect 'prized higher than pay'say nurses in jobs quiz
Pay is not the 'panacea' for improved nurse recruitment and retention, according to a report from Middlesex University business school.
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On the buses: what staff want
In South West region, a taskforce led by Julie Burgess, director of nursing at North Bristol trust, was established to help trusts meet the new standard.
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Employers face tough tests on working lives
NHS employers will have to submit more than 40 pieces of evidence to show their commitment to improving staff working lives as part of a tough standard to be launched alongside the new performance assessment framework for human resources.
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'Stonewalling'working-time directive won't wash
Senior doctors' leaders have accused the NHS of 'stonewalling' on local arrangements to implement the European working-time directive.
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Recruitment round-up
NHS recruitment and retention issues are in the news ahead of the publication of the nurses' evidence to their pay review body today and the TUC Congress in Glasgow.
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Prostate cancer research programme to begin
Health secretary Alan Milburn has increased funding for prostate cancer research as part of a new NHS prostate cancer programme. The Department of Health will be directly funding £1.2m of research this year, rising to £4.2m by 2003-04.
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Adverse drug reactions monitoring to be updated
The Medicines Control Agency is introducing an updated 'yellow card' scheme for reporting suspected adverse drug reactions, designed to protect patient confidentiality. The new scheme will no longer require personal details such as a patient's name and date of birth, but will just ask for information such as a patient's ...
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Milburn invited to explain reason for scrapping CHCs
Croydon community health council has invited health secretary Alan Milburn and junior health minster Gisela Stuart to its next meeting to 'explain the thinking behind the NHS plan' and in particular 'the intention to abolish CHCs'. The CHC hopes to persuade at least a senior civil servant to attend. Meanwhile, ...
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Anti-smoking research shows TV ads make sense
Health Development Agency research suggests that health promotion on television is an effective way to combat smoking.
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High Caesarean rates at hospital raises concerns
Southern health and social services council has raised concerns about Caesarean section rates at Craigavon Area Hospital after conducting research about women's experiences of giving birth at the unit. Between June and September last year, the Caesarean rate was 27 per cent - between 8 and 9 per cent higher ...
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Deprivation and population key to major rethink on Scots funding
The way Scotland's health funding is allocated has been changed, with a shift away from the existing system based primarily on population numbers.