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In brief: Mancunian Community Health trust
Mancunian Community Health trust is providing staff who will act as one-to-one mentors for pupils at three Manchester schools. They will meet 15 to 16-year-old pupils regularly to advise on health service careers.
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In brief: Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence has set up a system to monitor the health of troops deployed in Sierra Leone, describing this as a 'sensible precaution' because of the large number of personnel involved. Some arrived in West Africa without anti-malaria tablets or immunisations.
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Cancer money may be spread wider in future
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has said that NHS cancer research money may in future be spread wider than the big three cancer research centres.
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NHS Wales HR strategy set to embrace common core training
The NHS in Wales is to push ahead with 'common core training' for health professionals - an idea still being debated by England's modernisation action teams.
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Rapid rise in HIV diagnoses may lead to budget shortfall
Fears are growing that the budget for AIDS and HIV services in London will fall short by at least £5m this year, despite receiving a £21.7m uplift.
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UK's health system is one of the fairest in the world, WHO claims
The UK's health system emerges as one of the fairest in the world in the annual report of the World Health Organisation.
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Responses to NHS consultation average £2.38 each
The government's £500,000 public consultation scheme in advance of next month's national plan has netted 210,000 responses - 150,000 from leaflets distributed in public places and just under 50,000 from leaflets sent to staff. More than 12 million leaflets were issued. People were asked for three ways of improving the ...
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Boost to medical training with go-ahead for schools
Two new medical schools have been approved. One will be based at the University of East Anglia and the other will be a joint development between Exeter and Plymouth universities.
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Thousands from overseas accept UK job offers
The number of overseas-trained nurses and midwives coming to the UK to work has risen to record levels, according to figures from the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Provisional statistics show 7,361 nurses and midwives from abroad registered with the UKCC in the year to 31 ...
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Denham reveals CHI clampdown on infection rates
Health minister John Denham has said the Commission for Health Improvement and Audit Commission will have a legal right to demand information on hospital infection rates - and publish it. The move will be part of an attack on what Mr Denham called 'unacceptable variations' in infection rates between hospitals ...
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Patient group urges action to stop prison suicides
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has called on home secretary Jack Straw to take steps to cut 'the rising toll of prison suicides'. Chief inspector of prisons Sir David Ramsbotham has predicted there could be more than 100 suicides in prison this year. NSF chief executive Cliff Prior said there were ...
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Grants awarded to first healthy-living centres in NI
The New Opportunities Fund has given grants worth £500,000 to establish the first healthy living centres in Northern Ireland. The money is going to two centres. The Irvinestown Community Partnership will transform four run-down houses into a healthy-living centre providing employment skills and training programmes as well as health activities. ...
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'Whole-systems' approach urged to solve chaos in rehab services
Rehabilitation services for older people are patchy and poorly co-ordinated, even though they can cut costs and reduce the number of emergency admissions, the Audit Commission says in a report published yesterday.
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Report blames breech deaths on poor care
Late diagnosis and poor care during labour are putting breech birth babies at increased risk, the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy has found.
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Jam three days running for disgruntled patient
A hospital is to review a newly introduced food distribution policy after a patient complained that she had to survive on jam sandwiches for three out of her four days in hospital.
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Shock discovery on disused site
Blood samples, parts of ears and other clinical waste have been uncovered by demolition workers pulling down a disused hospital in Wales.
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Cost-effective?
The Audit Commission says it was not possible to model all the alternative services with their different costs but that studies so far have produced 'encouraging results':
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Public enemy no 1
The General Medical Council is under attack now even from doctors. Kaye McIntosh soaks up the hostility at the LMC's annual conference
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Race lost on points
Black healthcare staff are victims of discrimination under the discretionary points system for pay, a survey claims. Ann McGauran examines how fair the arrangements are