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Parents seek 'accountability' over Alder Hey organ scandal
Furious parents are demanding further action at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the chair was asked to leave last week.
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Sackings sparked by 'abuse' review
An external review of North Lakeland Healthcare trust has led to the sacking of its chair and the suspension of a number of senior managers.
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IT strategy defended after 'hiccup'
The billion-pound NHS IT strategy has been vigorously defended against accusations that it is failing to deliver results.
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Confidentiality body to advise Caldicott 'guardians'
A National Confidentiality and Security Advisory Body will be established to provide advice to local 'guardians' of patient confidentiality - appointed in the wake of the Caldicott report - and promote best practice on the confidentiality of patient information. It will also advise ministers and NHS bodies on a wide ...
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Birmingham HA chair opts to move closer to home
Bryan Stoten, the long-serving chair of Birmingham health authority, will take over as chair of Warwickshire HA on 1 April. Mr Stoten recently announced his intention to stand down from his present post, citing the government's stipulation that non-executives should live in the area served by their organisation. He has ...
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Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors
The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...
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Health minister launches trust's anti-violence policy
An anti-violence policy has been launched by junior health minister Gisela Stuart at Sandwell Healthcare trust, where 38 per cent of staff have been subjected to violence or aggression at work in the past 12 months. The policy, which is part of the government's zero-tolerance zone campaign, includes training for ...
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RCP reveals plans to gauge heart disease progress
The Royal College of Physicians this week unveiled plans to measure the progress of NHS services against the national service framework for coronary heart disease. The pilot scheme - funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will be rolled out to cover all acute hospitals offering cardiac services ...
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BMA hopeful of settlement to out-of-hours dispute
A resolution may be in sight to the long-running dispute between the government and junior doctors over payments for out-of-hours work. The British Medical Association's junior doctors committee has said a new deal negotiated with the Department of Health has 'sufficient merit' to be put to a referendum after a ...
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'Urgent' action demand by NAO as Welsh deficit reaches £80m
The financial performance of the NHS in Wales is continuing to deteriorate, with its underlying cumulative deficit set to rise to £80m by the end of the current financial year, according to the National Audit Office.
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CHC aids campaigners in banned petition row
Leicester community health council has joined the ongoing row over a 150,000-name petition protesting at plans to shake up services at the city's three major hospitals.
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LHGs will be given time to develop, says Hutt
Local health groups in Wales will be allowed to develop at a 'comfortable' pace, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt told a conference marking their first year of operation.
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Monitor
Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...
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10-month cancer delay casts doubt on ability to improve
Cancer patients have been waiting up to 10 months for treatment, according to a national 'baseline audit' casting doubt on services' ability to improve at the pace demanded by the government and public.
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The cream of the crop?
Health minister John Hutton meets James Barton (left), founder of Liverpool night club Cream, and Eddie Lundon of 1980s band China Crisis (right) at the launch of a Merseyside anti-suicide helpline.
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Denham braves Alliance after row
Health minister John Denham this week faced an audience with the NHS Alliance - just days after the organisation had been ordered to rip out his foreword to its latest paper.
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Labour insists it will meet its waiting-list pledge
The government insists it is 'well on target' to meet its election manifesto pledge to cut waiting lists by 100,000 at the end of this Parliament - despite figures showing an increase of more than 10,000 waiting at the end of January.
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Fritchie 'must spell out' councillors' role
A highly critical report on political appointments must spell out the roles and responsibilities of councillors who sit on trust, health authority and primary care group boards, NHS leaders have demanded.
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MPs back new personality disorder plans
Controversial proposals to detain 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' have received tentative support from the Commons home affairs committee.