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Fleet-footed 'Billy'Milburn faces down the ballet-hoo
It's usually water off a duck's back to me. But I would not deny that Alastair Campbell can be a pretty rough hooligan when it comes to trying to bully reporters or their editors with a dawn phone call. In the week of the Milburn 'concordat' with the private sector, ...
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Lost and confused
Little is known about the needs of people entering nursing and residential homes. Research suggests that the NHS may be failing them, report Karin Janzon, Stella Law and colleagues
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Questionnaire and answer sessions
Information was collected on all publicly-funded admissions to residential or nursing care in both boroughs over a three-month period. With the written consent of clients or their carers, a detailed questionnaire was completed on each individual at the point of assessment, by the client's social worker or care manager. The ...
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Cut to the trace
Searching for patients who have been treated by a surgeon infected with a blood-borne virus can be a time-consuming task. Tracey McErlain-Burns looks at some of the lessons to be learned in one trust
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What is hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. The virus is found in the blood of people who have this disease, and is spread primarily by contact with the blood of an infected person.The main route of transmission in the UK is by injecting drug misusers ...
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NHS Executive pulls the plug on private schemes worth £58m
A trust is pressing for NHS capital funding after changes in a private consortium's financial figures forced the NHS Executive to axe four private finance initiative schemes last week.
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£1.1m is set aside for redundancy payouts
Managers at the country's first completed private finance initiative hospital have set aside £1.1m to fund anticipated redundancies among non-clinical staff, a tribunal heard.