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Hospital keeps family scheme
A Scottish hospital is pressing ahead with plans to send patients with learning difficulties to live with staff despite allegations of misconduct and maltreatment of residents.
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Delays in HIV funding attacked
The government has come under fire over delays dogging both this year's funding and the national strategy for HIV and AIDS, promised three years ago.
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Hello dolly
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett meets Klaudine Simpson during a visit to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield to open its clinical skills centres for training medical students. They are examining plastic learning models showing a foetus at different stages of development. The centre has a range of manikins and ...
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Trust orders cardiac services review
A regional review of cardiac services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust is under way after an internal inquiry cleared a cardiac surgeon of allegations about his drinking and patient care.
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'Missing leaders' are urged to drive change
-NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton has called for the creation of a 'cadre of local leaders' to drive change in the health service.
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Private sector may strip NHS of staff
The private sector competes with the NHS and cannot expand without stripping it of staff, resources and patients, according to the King's Fund.
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Left holding the babies
Cathryn Leadstone, a pupil at Ormesby comprehensive school in Middlesbrough, with a pile of interactive dolls bought with funds from Teesside health action zone.
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Poll victory for A&E campaigners
Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster Hospital losing its accident and emergency department have scored a dramatic victory in the Wyre Forest district council elections, held on 4 May.
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Short Cuts: Equal pay victory for women speech therapists
Hundreds of NHS speech and language therapists will share £12m in back pay following the resolution of a 15-year 'equal pay' battle. The MSF union launched a claim in 1986 comparing the pay of 351 female speech and language therapists with professions dominated by men. The previous Conservative government fought ...
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Short Cuts: Doctors to vote on pay system to replace hourly rate
Junior doctors are set to issue their verdict on a new pay system this week. More than 30,000 ballot papers have been sent out by the British Medical Association as doctors decide whether to back proposals agreed with the Department of Health. The new scheme would replace the hourly rate ...
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Short Cuts: Cardiff and Vale trust launches £3.7m public appeal
A £3.7m public appeal has been launched to build the first phase of a children's hospital for Wales on a site at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.David Durham, chair of Cardiff and Vale trust, which is providing £1.3m, plus the site and infrastructure for the revenue-neutral scheme, said: 'As ...
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Short Cuts: Cockroaches force hospital to close beds
A cockroach infestation has forced a hospital to close 20 beds for five days. St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight has booked 12 beds for elective surgery at a nearby private hospital because of the infestation. Closure of a medical ward will allow pest controllers access to 'below ...
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Short Cuts: Campaign to counter 'shocking' ignorance of STIs
Doctor Patient Partnership has launched a campaign to tackle male ignorance of sexually transmitted infections, which are increasing. The campaign with the Men's Health Forum follows a MORI poll that found 28 per cent of adult men questioned did not know what a genito-urinary medicine clinic was, while 18 per ...
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Midwives' push for normality 'under threat'
Fear of litigation has brought about increasing medicalisation of maternity services, demoralising staff and reducing women's choice, midwives have claimed.
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Days like this
Closer working between clinicians and managers. . . purchaser provider split. . . Dorrell's promotion. . . community care reforms Guidance on consultants' contracts agreed between the Department of Health and the British Medical Association have been heralded as a breakthrough in closer working between clinicians and managers.
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'Perverse incentives' may force elderly into care
'Perverse incentives' may force elderly people into residential homes prematurely, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Deacon blues
The Scottish health minister insists that managers committed to improving patient care have nothing to fear from the 'strings attached' to additional NHS money from government. Colin Wright explains
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Beds under the Reds
Labour has crossed the ideological divide to embrace joint working with the private sector as a way to free NHS beds. Kaye McIntosh reports