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In Brief: website set up
A website has been set up to inform the public about the government's 'national plan' for NHS modernisation. It includes a button allowing people to send in their views.The website is www. nhs. uk/nationalplan.North West regional office has set up its own website, www.nhsmod-nw.co.uk. It assures staff they will not ...
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In Brief: The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on the use of coronary artery stents in ischaemic heart disease that recommends they should be considered in place of common treatments, including coronary artery bypass grafts.
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In Brief: £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced a £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales and undertake a review of children's play. She said the money would particularly help children in deprived areas.
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In Brief: Llandudno General Hospital
A shortage of laboratory staff has forced Llandudno General Hospital to refuse emergency admissions and divert patients up to 20 miles between 4pm and 9am.North West Wales trust director of operations and performance management Martin Jones said recruitment was 'a national problem'.A recent Institute of Biomedical Science survey showed that ...
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In Brief: Correction
In our news story concerning NHS planning director Alasdair Liddell's departure from the Department of Health (pages 4-5, 11 May), we misquoted NHS finance director Colin Reeves, whose wholehearted tribute to Mr Liddell included praise for his role in 'setting the strategic agenda for the NHS Executive'.The company Mr Liddell ...
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Ethnic babies' death risk doubled
Babies born in the UK to mothers originally from Pakistan or the Caribbean are twice as likely to die in infancy as babies whose mothers were born here, according to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.
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Peter Mount, chair of Salford Royal Hospitals trust (right), examines a 110year-old newspaper with Bernard O'Sullivan, managing director of E&C UK, a construction company.The newspaper was one of three found with Salford council minutes and other documents in a time capsule unearthed during demolition work at Ladywell Hospital.The capsule contents ...
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Entire board gives way to enable 'fresh start'
An entire trust non-executive board has been swept aside, following failures in 'human relationships' between members brought together after a four-way merger last year.
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'Sick' Marathon man is suspended by trust
A nursing director who ran in the London Marathon while on extended sick-leave has been suspended by his trust.
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Move to strip out acute services early
Worcester Acute Hospitals trust has moved to strip Kidderminster General Hospital of its acute inpatient services up to two years earlier than planned in an apparent bid to outfox campaigners opposed to the move.
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Short Cuts: Conservative proposal to end postcode prescribing
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has promised to end 'postcode prescribing' by setting up a centrally funded national medicines budget for treatments such as beta interferon.The size of the budget would be determined annually by the health secretary, but spent by an 'exceptional medicines fund' committee of 'senior clinicians ...
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Short Cuts: Catering and cleanliness undergo tougher scrutiny
Health minister John Denham has told the Healthcare Estates and Facilities Management Association in Telford that catering and hospital cleanliness will be subject to higher standards and tougher inspection by the Audit Commission and Commission for Health Improvement.
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Short Cuts: Exercise-promotion scheme receives £6.4m grant
The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £6.4m grant to encourage more people to walk, combating inactivity and ill-health.The award to the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation will support 200 'walking the way for health schemes' to be launched in September.These will be conducted walks of about two ...
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Short Cuts: Heat and power plant saves trust £780,000 a year
The Royal Free Hampstead trust is saving £780,000 a year with a combined heat and power plant that allows 70 per cent of fuel to be conver ted into energy. The trust says 27 per cent of fuel is conver ted into energy in a conventional power station. Some of ...
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Short Cuts: London action team to review emergency services
London regional office has announced the membership of an action team set up to review emergency services across the capital.Philip Brown, director of information development, who led preparations for last winter in the capital, is heading the project, which also includes clinicians, trust and health authority chief executives and managers, ...
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Short Cuts: PFI project signing ensures £66m hospital for Wales
The largest private finance initiative project in Wales has been signed and sealed, Bro Morgannwg trust has announced.The trust admits that managers and developer Baglan Moor Healthcare plc 'toiled through the night' last week to ensure the £66m needed for the hospital for Neath and Port Talbot could be raised ...
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Room on top
A construction worker watches as Northallerton Healthcare trust expands its ward accommodation at Friarage Hospital. A modu lar construction method is be ing used to reduce build ing time from 12 months to 26 weeks.
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Deacon warned as more winter crises lie in wait
A working group to look at ways of tackling winter pressures in Scotland has held its first meeting amid warnings of continuing pressure on 'fragmented' services.
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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Manager's departure adds to uncertainty
The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.