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Workforce plans see managers in control
Health managers are set to gain control of workforce planning under government proposals put out for consultation last week.
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New GPs outnumbered by retirees
The number of GPs retiring is outstripping the number entering the profession, leading to fears of a growing crisis in primary healthcare.
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Bad relations 'put city HAZ at threat'
An independent review has found that Leicestershire health authority's relationship with Leicester's social services department was so poor that the city's health action zone risked going 'completely off the rails'.
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'Jury' snub to hospitals shake-up
The ongoing controversy over a £150m shake-up of Leicester's hospitals has taken a new twist, with a 16strong citizens' jury coming out against the health authority's preferred plans.
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The coffin they carry you off in
Diane Charlton of the conservation workshop at Bradford Industrial Museum completes the restoration of a hand-drawn hearse that doubled as an ambulance when the glass top was removed. The vehicle was built in 1908 and used in the Yorkshire Dales village of Burneston.
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Government has 'ducked' thorny issues in Mental Health Act plans
The expert committee charged with advising the government on reform of the Mental Health Act has attacked its green paper for 'ducking some fundamental questions' to chase a tabloid agenda on public safety.
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MP appeals to government over free nursing care
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow has urged the government to introduce free nursing care for all, following a hint by health secretary Alan Milburn to the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress that the government may be considering such a move. 'It is now three years since the government promised ...
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Anti-abortion group pickets family planning centres
Anti-abortion group Precious Life has committed itself to picketing four new family planning centres funded by the Scottish Executive. Scottish health minister Susan Deacon announced that £150,000 would be provided to Brook Advisory Group for new centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Stirling. Jim Dowson, Precious Life spokesman, described the ...
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Reform association issues advice on better access
The Abortion Law Reform Association has issued a guide for commissioners on improving access to abortion and urged them to look for ways of improving services to match standards issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at the end of March. President Baroness Lockwood said: 'More than 30 ...
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Peerage for Sir Leslie Turnberg
Professor Sir Leslie Turnberg (right) has been given a seat in the Lords, where he will sit on the Labour benches. Sir Leslie led the strategic review of London in 1998 that recommended that St Bartholomew's Hospital should remain open, and highlighted the 'woeful' state of primary care in the ...
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Scottish nurses 'are still waiting for mobile phones'
Most community nurses in Scotland have yet to receive the mobile phones they were promised 14 months ago by then Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith to improve safety and efficiency. Community staff have been complaining that the phones are either not yet available or that staff have been asked to ...
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When trust becomes a must
One of the most annoying precepts that gets bandied about in the partnership debate is the need to form 'trusting relationships'. Unlike some of the more tangible aspects of joint working, such as new structures and strategic statements, trust is elusive both as a concept and a working tool. So, ...
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Fox's brush with bright ideas lights the way ahead
Frank Field wasn't the only politician casting around for new ideas to help the NHS this week. Though less exotic than Mr Field's suggestion that patients be sent to India or China for treatment, Dr Liam Fox is halfway through some basic rethinking, too.
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monitor
Monitor is unable to say why health secretary Alan Milburn's Sunday appearance with Jonathan Dimbleby was followed by Carry on Doctor. But what a happy reminder the 1968 classic offers of the need to leave no group untouched by modernisation. We may confine our blaming and shaming to managers for ...
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Dear Mel. . .
I am the estates manager of a major London hospital. Throughout the 1980s we undertook several crash programmes to convert our wards for dual-sex use.
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Strung along
The government's presentational handling of massive extra cash for the NHS has engendered wariness - and weariness - about its real intentions. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Internal market was only way 'to stop Thatcher privatising NHS'
The internal market in healthcare was dreamt up in a radical bid to stop Margaret Thatcher privatising the NHS, according to a book by a leading adviser to the current health secretary.
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Down equality street
The NHS may have good intentions on race relations, but it has a long way to go before it achieves equality. Thelma Agnew reports on an HSJ survey
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Look who's talking
Whatever the future holds for Bart's, it seems destined for controversy. Kaye McIntosh reports