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You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.
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The devil is in the detail
Workforce planning in the NHS has always lacked cohesion and been dominated by sectional interests. Now the government plans a complete overhaul, writes Jeremy Davies
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Nurses and professions allied to medicine
The focus of planning for all staff, including nurses and everyone from physiotherapists to laboratory staff and clinical psychologists, is at trust level. For nurses, 'bottom up' five-year workforce plans from trusts feed up to education consortia, which then aggregate plans from trusts and other employers, such as nursing homes ...
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NHS workforce planning: the future
A Health Service of All the Talents proposes the following structure:
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Armchair theatre
The government's plan to get elderly people out of acute hospitals and into private care to free beds may leave older people fearing hospital admission as they once did the workhouse, argues Roger Bullock
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Hospital report set to back whistleblowers
An investigation into claims that staff were 'victimised' for raising concerns about a leading radiology unit is expected to be severely critical of senior managers.
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Pace accelerates on surplus asset sell-off
The government has indicated that the programme to sell off surplus NHS assets could be accelerated following the publication of a report estimating £60m could be raised each year.
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Drugs producer threatens to halt production after DoH price cap
The UK's biggest manufacturer of generic drugs has threatened to stop production in the wake of the government's move to cap prices.
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Council ballot calls for top level resignations
A Conservative-controlled local council is calling on the chief executive and chair of Lincolnshire health authority to resign following a ballot over the closure of paediatric and maternity services at Grantham and District Hospital.
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Flu 'crisis' was media's winter wonderland
Last year's winter crisis was a media myth, according to a report from the NHS Executive.