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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.
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BMA hits out at 'frail' data in league tables
'The frail quality' of information in hospital league tables makes them of little use to patients, doctors or managers, the British Medical Association this week warned.
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Huge variation in availability of HA-funded abortions
Guidelines published this week on the use of abortions have flagged up variations in availability which mean that 90 per cent of procedures are funded by just 19 health authorities in England and Wales.
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Days like this
Party bias 'rife' in appointments. . . Eric Caines is personnel director. . . Scottish Office sends in team of six. . . Priority services 'underfunded'. . .
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Doc around the clock
The future of out-of-hours medical care, now under government scrutiny, has many potential scenarios - and most seem to involve NHS Direct, writes Alison Moore
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Boyle's law
The man in charge of implementing Alan Milburn's heart disease framework says he will achieve his aims by charm rather than brute force. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Sticky concoction
The first 17 PCTs - due to start in a fortnight - are putting together their plans, while ministers firm up accountability arrangements.But doesn't it all taste a little of fudge, wonders Lynn Eaton
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Conflict of interest
The armed forces medical service faces the same staffing problems as the NHS - and the two are even competing for the same people, writes Patrick Butler
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Press ahead without me
In his first speech since announcing his resignation, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands emphasised the pressures on health service managers, increasingly in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. Paul Stephenson reports