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High Caesarean rates at hospital raises concerns
Southern health and social services council has raised concerns about Caesarean section rates at Craigavon Area Hospital after conducting research about women's experiences of giving birth at the unit. Between June and September last year, the Caesarean rate was 27 per cent - between 8 and 9 per cent higher ...
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Deprivation and population key to major rethink on Scots funding
The way Scotland's health funding is allocated has been changed, with a shift away from the existing system based primarily on population numbers.
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Reforms built into third wave of PMS
The government has incorporated key elements of the NHS plan into contracts for the third wave of personal medical services pilots.
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Longstanding BMA secretary to be Scottish chief medical officer
The new chief medical officer for Scotland will be Dr Mac Armstrong, secretary of the British Medical Association since 1993.
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Dear Mel. . .
What does 'phenomenological' mean ? I've heard lots of nurses use the term when they want to impress people, but when I ask them what it means they just look mysterious and walk away. I'm worried it might be a horrible disease I've got and they won't tell me - ...
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Biotech firm 'will not charge'NHS for breast cancer tests
Scottish biotechnology firm Rosgen has announced that it does not plan to charge the NHS for carrying out tests for mutations in two genes linked to breast cancer.
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RCN lends weight to care row
The Royal College of Nursing has added its voice to criticisms of the government's plans for long-term care.
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Days like this
London health authorities have resigned themselves to a new round of cuts in a last-ditch attempt to balance the books by April. A snapshot survey by HSJ revealed that cost-cutting would exacerbate the capital's bed shortage. One manager commented: 'The basic problem is there is not enough money to meet ...
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Nervous tick
Health managers perceive CHI to be about punishment and censure, despite its protestations to the contrary. Mark Gould reports on a revealing HSJ survey
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Dig that debate
The private finance initiative continues to enrage its critics. But its supporters claim their opposition is a relic of a former age. Lyn Whitfield wonders where the future lies
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Sounding the right note
The history of rock and roll is strewn with casualties: Jimi Hendrix choking on his own vomit, Elvis enjoying his last supper, the gunshots that ended the short lives of Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.