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Blade runners
In a 50-hour working week, an orthopaedic surgeon spends an average of seven hours operating. Are we simply wasting their skills, ask John Yates and colleagues
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It's a stitch-up
A scheme to improve home care and cut the length of hospital stay for elderly patients succeeded by integrating primary care services. David Powell and Ed Peile report
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Pioneering spirits
In our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Maura Thompson asks two health promotion workers to describe their work
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Battling mother is definitely not in the club
'Someone once described the NHS to me as a perfect illustration of the British class system, where groups are divided into categories whose members ostensibly live and work in the same world, but which actually do much to ensure that the dividing lines between them remain in place.'
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Bill aims to help unjustly suspended doctors
A bill to protect hospital doctors who are unjustly suspended under 'crazy' trust disciplinary systems at a cost to the NHS of millions of pounds has been introduced in the House of Lords.
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In brief: Chronic medical conditions
The government should establish a ministerial responsibility for long-term chronic medical conditions as a way of recognising its significance and raising its profile, said Labour MP and health committee member Howard Stoate. Dr Stoate said : 'We have ceased to deal with it (chronic illness) with the urgency it deserves.'
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In brief: Alcohol misuse
The Department of Health plans to launch a consultation paper about a national strategy to tackle alcohol misuse 'later this year', said public health minister Yvette Cooper.
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In brief: NHS logo
The NHS re-branding exercise, in which all NHS organisations are required to adopt the corporate NHS logo, will not result in any extra costs or work, said health minister John Denham. He added that new organisations such as primary care groups would save money by adopting the NHS mark rather ...
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Labour set to listen
The NHS this week began the first of a two-part consultation to bring staff and patients on board for its 'national plan' for health.
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Ministers rush out plan to halt spiralling generic drug costs
Health ministers plan to abolish a scheme under which drug companies have been 'taking advantage of the NHS' to increase dramatically the price of unbranded medicines.
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Funding clash ends in loss of 'candid' Eastern board chair
A Northern Ireland health and social services board has lost its chair after a public spat with the government over funding.
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Trusts reprimanded for flouting pay guidance
Trusts in Northern Ireland have been reprimanded after more than half of them flouted government guidance on senior managers' pay, amid a row over its clarity.
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Primary care to get just £1m
Doubt has been cast on the government's commitment to a primary care in Northern Ireland after it was awarded less than 2 per cent of the extra Budget cash.
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Ambulance staff walk out in dispute over back pay
Hull was left with virtually no ambulance cover for nearly three hours in an unofficial walk-out over back pay that 'frightened' union officials. Unison is now preparing to vote on official industrial action in a dispute over back pay, while Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service trust says that ...
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Call for continence guidelines to be made mandatory
The Continence Campaign has called for government guidelines on continence services to be made mandatory. National co-ordinator Gill Kirk welcomed the 'thorough work and consideration' that had gone into last week's guidelines, but said it was a 'crying shame the government has no intention of actively enforcing its own recommendations'. ...