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In Brief: Harold Shipman inquiry will be 'open and accessible'
The Department of Health has promised that the independent inquiry into the Harold Shipman case will be 'open and accessible' to relatives of his victims. Led by Lord Laming, former chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate, the inquiry has been set up under the NHS Act and is closed ...
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In Brief: Institutionalised racism in the mental health system
Institutionalised racism in the mental health system is still hampering changes to services for black and ethnic minority users, according to a snapshot survey by Mind. Seventy per cent of respondents felt that providers were trying to improve their services, but 86 per cent said that the system still discriminated ...
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In Brief: Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency will be formally established on 1 April. Regulations to complete the handover of food safety and standards responsibilities to the new agency were signed by junior health minister Gisela Stuart last week.
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In Brief: UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting says it is 'extremely concerned' that the government's plans to reform the Mental Health Act make no provision for the prosecution of staff who sexually or physically abuse patients, or steal from them. It also rejected a green paper proposal ...
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In Brief: Straw poll of visitors to HSJ 's website
Health service managers do not believe that elected mayors should run the health service, according to a straw poll of visitors to HSJ 's website. Voting started last Thursday, and by Tuesday morning the figures were 211 against and 21 in favour.
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Back to square one
Children from Our Lady 's School in Camden, north London, learn how to avoid food poisoning with a giant board game called 'Bubbles and Slime'.
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Lay members of PCGs in key community role
Lay members of primary care group boards play a crucial role in ensuring that the views of local communities are taken into account, even though they are not community representatives, a Doctor Patient Partnership conference heard last week.
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Doctors' groups slam go-ahead for PCT in face of GPs' opposition ad
GP leaders from four national bodies have issued a joint attack on Southend primary care group's application to become a primary care trust next month despite a ballot in which local GPs opposed the move.
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Public health experts fear hidden R&D cuts
Experts in public health have expressed fears that the health secretary's vow to 'take public health out of the ghetto' is a 'cover' for short-term cuts in research and education.
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Pathology staffing problems worsen
The recruitment crisis in NHS pathology laboratories is getting worse, according to a union survey which found a 20 per cent shortfall in lab staff nationally.
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Short Cuts: Charity calls for government mental health 'czar'
Mental health charity MACA has called for the Department of Health to consider appointing a mental health czar in the wake of the appointment of a national heart director last week. Chief executive Gil Hitchon said: 'Cancer, heart disease and mental health are the government's top health priorities. We now ...
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems blast delay in releasing DoH target check
The Liberal Democrats have criticised the government's delays in releasing an assessment of all the targets set for the Department of Health.They claim that the 1998 white paper The New NHS has generated over 2,000 measures to be monitored - with more at lower levels. Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick ...
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Short Cuts: Patient self-management investigation demanded
The Mental Health Foundation has produced a report calling for a three-year investigation of how people with mental health problems manage their own health.Strategies for Living calls on the government to set up an expert patients taskforce to establish a nation-wide programme of self-management. Director Ruth Leserge said the report ...
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Short Cuts: UKCC welcomes DoH poor performance proposals
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has welcomed the Department of Health's proposals on poor clinical performance. But the response to Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients questions how proposed assessment and support centres would work in practice, and particularly how they would link with current regulatory processes. ...
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Short Cuts: Welsh Assembly issues social exclusion indicators
The Welsh Assembly has published 50 indicators mapping social exclusion. The report illustrates that many factors are concentrated in the Valleys, but also shows social exclusion in other parts of the country in pockets of urban deprivation. The figures show that 10 per cent of adults in Wales reported being ...
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Short Cuts: Pensions Agency to contract out support services
The NHS Pensions Agency has announced plans to contract out support services in an effort to reduce administration costs. The agency says the proposals could ultimately generate savings of some £3m a year and 'make better use of new computer technology and the Internet'. The contract is likely to include ...
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£10m renal cash follows expose
London regional director Nigel Crisp is to enter emergency talks with the capital's top renal specialists, following a public exposure of the 'worsening crisis' facing their units by senior clinicians.
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Lighting up
Al Pacino stars as investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in the Oscar-nominated film The Insider, the true story of a US tobacco industry whistleblower. It had a special screening in Birmingham last Friday attended by more than 250 doctors, nurses and other health staff.
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Clinicians seek 'radical overhaul' of Scots NHS
The 'crisis' in the NHS in Scotland is worsening and will not be stopped without a 'radical overhaul' of healthcare delivery, senior clinicians warned this week.
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Deacon orders rethink of Arbuthnott funding plans
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has ordered the Arbuthnott steering group to produce new proposals after rejecting its original plans to change the way NHS funding is shared out.