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Who wants to know?
Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald
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Financial gaps in frameworks could knock NHS plan for six
Major financial gaps in agreements between trusts and health authorities across England threaten to hamper the delivery of services promised in the NHS plan.
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Nurses involved in Lakeland abuse scandal may have to face courts
Nurses involved in the abuse scandal at North Lakeland Healthcare trust in Cumbria could face prosecution.
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Wales to scrap HAs as Assembly gears up for control over health
Health authorities are to be swept away in Wales in a controversial measure that overshadowed the launch of the Welsh NHS plan last week and saw Unison predicting 400 job losses within two years.
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Salary-rise average at odds with cappingcall
Trust chief executives saw basic salaries rise by an average of 6 per cent last year to £78,000-a-year despite calls by health secretary Alan Milburn for a 3. 2 per cent cap on management pay.
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In brief
Health minister John Denham has announced the fifth wave of topics to be considered for referral to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. The eight treatments to be appraised include 'clot-busting'drugs for heart attack victims, which could help meet targets in the national service framework for coronary heart disease to ...
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50 per cent cash help for trusts' in Alder Hey burial cost fallout
Trusts have been ordered to prepare a business case for financial help towards the burial or cremation of tens of thousands of organs retained without proper consent, in the fallout from the Alder Hey scandal. Only trusts which have 500 or more specimens will get help of up to 50 ...
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LGOs, unions and charities call for clarity on care trusts
Local government organisations, unions and charities have made a united call on health secretary Alan Milburn to clarify how care trusts will be governed.
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List row chair quits in wake of chief executive
The chair of a trust which lost its chief executive following an inquiry into 'waiting-list irregularities' has followed suit with his own resignation.
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RCN outlines manifesto wish-list
The Royal College of Nursing has outlined its manifesto calling on the next government to provide funding for free long-term nursing care, tackle student nurse hardship and improve familyfriendly practices.
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Confed makes plea on dental strategy
The government needs to look at more imaginative ways of using NHS dentists and dental assistants if it is to fulfil its pledge for everyone to have access to NHS dental treatment by September, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Pioneering authority rapped for 'failing'to deliver social services
One of the first local councils to have been given unitary status has been slated by the Audit Commission and social services inspectorate for the way it provides social care - and its poor links with the NHS.
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Bodies in chapel probe suggests chief executive was scapegoat
The final report into the bodies in the chapel at Bedford Hospital has increased speculation that the standing down of chief executive Ken Williams was a 'disproportionate' response prompted by the need for a scapegoat.
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Scots long-term care group to examine crossovers
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has revealed that the group looking into implementing free care for elderly people in Scotland will examine 'the inter-relationships with UK matters, notably the tax and social security benefits system and cross-border movement'. There has been some talk of introducing a residency qualification for people ...
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Fresh negotiations due on consultants' contracts
Consultants' leaders are to meet health secretary Alan Milburn on Tuesday in an attempt to kick-start negotiations on the new consultant contract. Talks stalled last month, with the British Medical Association claiming NHS Executive negotiators had failed to produce concrete proposals for the new contract, which is meant to come ...
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Chief executives and project will tackle staffing
Trust chief executives across London have agreed to organise agency staffing jointly through the London Agency Project. The project, based at London regional office, has invited staffing agencies to bid for London-wide contracts to provide nurses and other staff, initially in accident and emergency, critical care and operating theatres. The ...
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£50m hospital will kick off second wave of PFIs
A £50m hospital is to be built on the site of West Middlesex University Hospital, the first of the second wave of health service private finance initiative projects. A contract has been signed between the trust and the Bouygues Consortium for the rebuild, which is due to be completed in ...
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Nurse 'bullied by staff ' stole weight-loss drugs
A Cumbrian nurse who stole prescription drugs from her hospital because she believed they would help her lose weight has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence. Staff nurse Ruth Stewart pleaded guilty to stealing 11 Eltroxin 50 thyroid tablets from Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary. Her lawyer said Ms Stewart had ...