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Down the tubes
Trusts have a constant problem in recruiting and keeping laboratory staff, and low pay is the root of the problem. Seamus Ward reports
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Test match
Pathology services are perceived as expensive and their cost-benefits to the NHS are ignored simply because they are long-term. The whole NHS is paying the price, argue Colin Connolly and Dennis Huckerby
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Hit and miss
A survey of all practices in one PCG found that many are poorly prepared for the era of clinical governance. Juan Baeza and colleagues report
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Mothers' care labouring under delusions
One of the doughtiest and most paradoxical champions of the NHS in the House of Commons recently returned to the subject of one of his greatest triumphs - maternity care - to lament with typical directness what he sees as its decline.
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Cancer drugs probe 'should take only months'
NHS cancer 'czar' Mike Richards has told MPs he expects 'around a dozen' licensed cancer drugs currently prescribed by some health authorities to be formally assessed 'in the next few months'.
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In brief: Extra-contractual referrals
Despite the government's promise to crack down on extra-contractual referrals, numbers of out-of-area treatments in the first two years of the Labour government have been as high as they were during the Conservatives' internal market. Of all hospital treatments in 1998, referrals out of health authority area accounted for 23 ...
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In brief: NHS
The NHS in England spent £314m on non-NHS contractor-provided domestic, hotel, cleaning, laundry and cleaning equipment services in 1988-89.
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In brief: Cosmetic plastic surgeons
Cosmetic plastic surgeons acting in the private sector should be made financially responsible for 'botched' operations, said Ann Clywd, Labour MP for Cynon Valley. As a campaigner against poor standards in the private cosmetic industry, she called for tighter regulation, including peer review of surgeons and independent sources of information ...
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£320m hospital scheme stalls over bed cuts
One of the largest hospital building schemes in the NHS appears to have stalled amid concerns over bed numbers.
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More autonomy for managers: Milburn
The NHS Executive's role will shift from performance management to change management after the launch of the 'national plan' in July, health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ .
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Waiting lists - down but not out
Achieving the government's pledge of reducing waiting lists by 100,000 provided 'a foundation to take the battle against waiting into all aspects of NHS care', Mr Milburn said.
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We have turned corner on deficits, says Wales director
The director of the NHS in Wales has told HSJ he has 'very mixed feelings' about leaving the health service.
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Trust's sick-leave memo leads to accusations of 'bullying tactics'
A trust has sent memos to domestic staff and porters about the 'cost to the department' of taking as little as one day's sick leave, leading to accusations that it is victimising some of its lowest paid staff.