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In brief: Healthcare of refugees
The healthcare of refugees is being marginalised by discrimination and xenophobia, according to the principal family therapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Jeremy Woodcock. He said clinical experience suggested that discrimination contributed to inferior healthcare.
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In brief: Intensive care patients
Intensive care patients are twice as likely to die at times of understaffing or overwork, according to a report in last week's Lancet. A study in an adult intensive care unit at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, also found that understaffing was linked to excessive rates of complications , errors and hospital-acquired ...
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In brief: UK Transplant Support Service Authority
The 1999 report from the UK Transplant Support Service Authority shows a continuing drop in cadaveric organ donation and a continuing rise in the number of patients awaiting organ transplants. The number of donors, 815, was the lowest since 1985, while the number of transplants fell by 1 per cent.
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Ex-trust head to make strategy-upon-Avon
A trust chief executive, forced to resign following an investigation into the trust's management of waiting-list figures, has been appointed to a strategic role at Avon health authority.
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'Crude' league tables 'fail to provide answers' say critics
A revised set of NHS 'league tables' was published this week amid warnings that they beg more questions than they answer.
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Welsh taskforce will have 'extended role'
Welsh health and social services secretary Jane Hutt has announced an 'extended role' for its winter 'emergency pressures taskforce'.
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Manager numbers increase despite 'red tape' pledge
The government's NHS reforms have brought a substantial increase in the number of health service managers, despite pledges to cut 'red tape'.
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NHS Direct 'has no impact on emergency services'
NHS Direct has failed to stem growing demand for emergency medical services, according to a report from Sheffield University's medical care research unit. It found no difference in the use of accident and emergency departments and emergency ambulances, since the helpline was introduced. But NHS Direct 'may have restrained the ...
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Denham refers new round of cancer drugs to NICE
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is to rule on whether a range of anti-cancer drugs should be available on the NHS. Health minister John Denham has referred a series of treatments to NICE, in a two-year programme. The list covers therapies for lung, colorectal, blood, breast, ovarian, brain and ...
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Employers urged to help people with mental illness
Health minister John Hutton has backed an employment check list to help people with mental health problems into work .
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Health 'ambassadors' to provide 'key messages'
The first 'health ambassadors' in the UK have been appointed by North Cumbria health authority in a drive to improve communications between doctors, nurses and the public. The HA and North Cumbria health action zone have approved 14 'ambassadors' from across the district. HA chair Barbara Cannon said the people ...
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Tribunal told of alleged abuse at care home for elderly
Vulnerable elderly residents died after abuse at a care home run by independent provider BUPA, an industrial tribunal has been told. In a case brought under the new Public Interest Disclosure Act, former care worker Eileen Chubb claimed she was hounded out of her job after complaining about neglect and ...
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HAs invite comments on primary care restructure
Two health authorities have launched a major consultation exercise to help staff and patients shape future services in Hertfordshire. The proposals include merging East & North Hertfordshire HA and West Hertfordshire HA, setting up seven primary care trusts across the county and creating a single mental health trust to cover ...
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Beds guarantee ends decades of wrangling over flagship PFI site
The long-awaited redevelopment of University College London Hospitals trust has at last been given the go ahead, following years of political wrangling and industrial action.
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Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust
London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care.
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Ambulance chief delay 'mystery' shrugged off
London Ambulance Service has shrugged off accusations that there is anything 'mysterious' about its failure to replace former chief executive Michael Honey, who left in February.
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Scaife leaves: it's official
Months of speculation over the future of the chief executive of the NHS in Scotland have ended this week with the announcement that Geoff Scaife is to step down.
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MPs to have reduced role in a appointments
Ministers have come close to admitting that asking MPs to recommend people to sit on hospital or health authority boards can 'politicise' the NHS.
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Angels with dirty faces
Unison student nurses descending on the Angel of the North statue in Newcastle upon Tyne as part of their campaign to restore student salaries. The nurses, from the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside, want to restore their employee status, lost in 1989.
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Committee split 'saddens' veteran
The government's plans to work more closely with the private sector to plug gaps in NHS provision have come under attack from the chair of the Commons health select committee.