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'More NHS jobs for mental health patients' call
The NHS has been urged to 'put its own house in order' by employing more staff with mental health problems, in a report on social exclusion by mental health charity Mind.
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Scots campaigners want action on long-term care
Age Concern Scotland has launched a campaign in favour of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care. The WeCare campaign will aim to persuade the Scottish Parliament to implement the recommendations to 'restore dignity and fairness to the care system'. Commission chair Sir Stewart Sutherland backed the campaign, ...
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Deacon announces £1m for 'seamless' provision
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has announced £1m investment in 14 projects to encourage 'seamless care' for patients under the Designed to Care initiative, which has already released £2m for service redesign at Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals trust and Lothian University Hospitals trust .
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Education expert calls for integrated early service
One of Britain's most prominent education officials has called for an integrated 'pregnancy-to-age-three' service to give children a 'flying start in life'. Professor Tim Brighouse, Birmingham city council chief education officer, told a conference that the government's Sure Start programme had 'got off to a very uncertain start' because civil ...
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Welsh bed numbers drop by a third in two decades
The number of hospital beds in Wales has dropped by a third in less than 20 years, but roughly twice as many patients are receiving hospital treatment. A summary of statistics from Wales published last week shows that the number of beds fell by 8,000 to 15,000 between 1980 and ...
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Junior doctor drafted in to help Assembly cut hours
A junior doctor has been seconded to the Welsh Assembly for nine months to 'help identify how doctors' working hours can be reduced and working conditions improved'. Dr Catrin Elis Williams, 25, was a senior house officer in general medicine at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
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BMA seeks regulation for complementary medicine
The British Medical Association has called for complementary and alternative medicine to be regulated to end the 'current unacceptable situation' in which 'virtually anyone is free to practise, irrespective of training or experience'. In evidence to a Lords sub-committee, the BMA says a single regulating body should be established for ...
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Shelter urges government to firm up housing duties
Shelter has warned that 'many vulnerable people' are 'giving up asking for help' because they face an insurmountable battle trying to access housing and care. It has urged the government to use its forthcoming housing policy green paper to firm up local authority duties to provide comprehensive housing and care ...
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Glasgow seeks to up its SHARE
The chief executive of Greater Glasgow health board has called for more money from a proposed shake-up of Scottish health service funding, under which it would already be a major beneficiary.
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Discipline review is 'urgently needed'
A consultant suspended from his job for more than a year has called on health ministers to release a review of disciplinary procedures, ordered a year ago.
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Days are numbered for national GP contract as pilots prosper
The days of a single national contract for all GPs 'must now be considered to be in doubt', according to a King's Fund study.
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Trusts' improved note handling 'good news'
Fewer than half of all trusts start outpatient clinics with a set of casenotes for every patient, according to an Audit Commission report published today.
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Tobacco ad ban hitch
Anti-smoking campaigners have expressed disappointment at a High Court ruling blocking the government's tobacco advertising ban.
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Days like this
Bottomley replaces Mellor. . . internal market 'projects'. . . plea for £1bn extra. . . managers' performance pay frozen. . . HA merger row
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Fake incidents mar campaign against violence on NHS staff
The government's 'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign to counter violence against NHS staff has been found to be using fake incidents in its publicity material.
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Finance chief retires during inquiry
A senior Scottish Ambulance Service executive has retired during an inquiry into allegations that he hid a criminal conviction from his employers.
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RCN members hit out at Hancock's high salary
Royal College of Nursing members attacked the high salary of general secretary Christine Hancock and other senior staff at their annual general meeting last week.
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NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal
Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.
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Greater focus on cancer as czar signs up
Health secretary Alan Milburn announced he was 'making cancer treatment a personal priority'as he appointed a cancer 'czar' this week.