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Cool response to MPs' calls on DSPD funding
The government has given a lukewarm response to MPs' calls for 'substantial initial funding' and more safeguards in its proposals for dealing with dangerous people with severe personality disorder (DSPDs).
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Milburn cautious on inquiries into killings by the mentally ill
Health secretary Alan Milburn has indicated that the government may be reluctant to abandon automatic inquiries into killings by people with mental health problems.
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Sexual health and HIV plans to merge
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the long-delayed national HIV/AIDS strategy will be merged with the government's sexual health strategy.
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The new funds
The government is to increase funding for the treatment and care of people with HIV and AIDS by more than 13 per cent.
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What's in a letter: from category C to B?
Sir Richard Tilt's inquiry also called for £55m to be spent upgrading security facilities at the three special hospitals to prison category B standard, from category C. There have been seven escapes in the past decade and none since 1994.
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Dispersed asylum seekers 'need improved health access'
Health authorities need to improve health assessments for asylum seekers and ensure they have access to primary care and mental health services, according to the Audit Commission.
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Finance chiefs are in the money
Finance directors are seeing their pay rise faster than human resources directors, according to figures from Pay and Workforce Research.
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Days like this
Labour election pledges. . .Buy-out firm's new venture. . .Cervical screening crisis. . .Kitchens' rodent problem. . .PAC's financial warning
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Getting back on its feet
Turning the NHS around has been likened to steering a supertanker: you can't just change things overnight, because the ship has a momentum all its own.
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Two dozen of the best: the team
The 24-member performance team, chaired by public health minister Yvette Cooper, includes some real heavyweights, not least:
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How to bring down waits
Staff at London's University Hospital Lewisham hospital have slashed the average wait for a dermatology appointment from 48 to 13 weeks. They compared the number of routine and urgent slots with numbers and types of referrals - and found there were too few routine appointments available.
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Turning up the heat
Proposals from an expert group on critical care are already looking ahead to the service demands of next winter. And there's money available, too. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Women offenders 'victims of shambolic special hospitals'
Most women in high-security hospitals should not be there. They are the victims of a 'shambolic' system that has failed to provide them with more appropriate care, the Commons health select committee has heard.
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Religious conversion aids A&E
A chapel is being converted into a minor injuries unit at Worcester Royal Infirmary to relieve pressure on the accident and emergency department.
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Days like this
Taskforce to rally support. . .London reforms warning. . .Cook's Wales challenge. . .Trust extensions mooted. . .Poll tax idea resisted
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When it's time to get even
A pioneering scheme offering support for staff with mental health problems has put one trust ahead of the rest on employment opportunities. Laura Donnelly looks at the scheme in the light of last week's guidance by the Department of Health
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The cost of equality
The Department of Health guidance spells out the extent to which organisations are expected to invest resources to adjust workplace and employment arrangements: 'to spend at least as much on making a replacement as what would be needed to recruit and train a replacement'. It also lists practical ways to ...
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Vacuum task
With continuing uncertainty about the long-term future of devolved government, the furious pace of reform in the Northern Ireland health service has juddered to a halt. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Bevan can wait
The father of the NHS, Nye Bevan, was against hospitals relying on private charity - so what would he have thought of an attempt in the 21st century to build a children's hospital by public subscription? Tash Shifrin examines the scheme