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Report blames breech deaths on poor care
Late diagnosis and poor care during labour are putting breech birth babies at increased risk, the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy has found.
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Jam three days running for disgruntled patient
A hospital is to review a newly introduced food distribution policy after a patient complained that she had to survive on jam sandwiches for three out of her four days in hospital.
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Shock discovery on disused site
Blood samples, parts of ears and other clinical waste have been uncovered by demolition workers pulling down a disused hospital in Wales.
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Cost-effective?
The Audit Commission says it was not possible to model all the alternative services with their different costs but that studies so far have produced 'encouraging results':
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Public enemy no 1
The General Medical Council is under attack now even from doctors. Kaye McIntosh soaks up the hostility at the LMC's annual conference
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Race lost on points
Black healthcare staff are victims of discrimination under the discretionary points system for pay, a survey claims. Ann McGauran examines how fair the arrangements are
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in person
Stephen Coneys is new director of primary care for Birmingham health authority. A former state registered nurse, he has been working as assistant to the chief executive and head of contractor operation. Mr Coneys, a leading mountaineer, says he has 'experienced and learned from some spectacular failures including frostbite and ...
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Dear Mel. . .
Our trust is having merger talks with Tesco. Hospital employees will get bonus Club Card points, but I think patients should as well. Do you agree?
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Wales told fresh targets must be met with current funding
The Welsh health service has been set stringent targets on waiting-list reduction which health and social services secretary Jane Hutt insists can be met with a £40m allocation made in May.
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Cooper throws a fit - on scrip
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced plans to expand exercise on prescription schemes.
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Days like this
Consultants hit out at reforms. . . junior doctors press for strike action. . . focus on London co-ordination. . . accountants steer clear of NHS
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Heaven can wait
Innovation? Give us more. Grand plan? Let's start tomorrow. The New Health Network conference was painfully on-message. Maura Thompson was there
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Going into labour
One of the authors of a major report on birth statistics has criticised the government's new systems for collecting health data. Janet Snell finds out why co-ordinating national health statistics is not child's play
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Who will take the pressure as two become one?
What seems a logical step may turn out to be impossible to achieve
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Checkmate for 'king' consultants
Clinical governance is working and managers are feeling the load
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Too many facts, too few words
Producing patient information is fraught with pitfalls. Updating a number of factsheets fell to me over a recent wet bank holiday weekend. By Monday evening my mind was reeling from trying to achieve a balance between plain English, political correctness, evidence-based factual accuracy and being neither simplistic and condescending on ...
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Clwyd gives vent to private fury over shamed medics
I tend to be wary of public persecution of named individuals, even by politicians (or journalists) I respect. The righteous zeal of the animal rights lobby, for instance, often smacks of the hunt in full pursuit of the fox, as we are finding again this week.