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Short Cuts: Cooper announces funding for back pain pilots
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that 19 pilot projects will receive funding for initiatives to reduce back pain in the workplace, as part of the 'back in work' scheme. Results from the pilots, which will receive a total of £700,000 from the Department of Health and the Health ...
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Short Cuts: FPA highlights medical abortion access problems
The Family Planning Association has claimed medical abortion in England is 'over-medicalised and unnecessarily bureaucratic', forcing women to have surgical terminations. A report launched this week says fewer than one in five women having an early abortion on the NHS will receive a medical termination. There are also regional variations. ...
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Wired for sound
Clashes between medical professionals and 'survivors' kept the temperature rising at a debate on ECT. Laura Donnelly was there
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Resist temptation to be a wet blanket on beds inquiry
Milburn must seize opportunity to 'reverse' 40-year numbers decline
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Two-day target for access to doctors criticised as 'harsh'
Primary care leaders have given a lukewarm response to governmentbacked targets for rapid access to GPs.
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BMA to fight Shipman 'contempt'
The British Medical Association will 'vigorously' defend itself to the attorney general, who has been asked to investigate whether it was in contempt of court for releasing a briefing document about GP Harold Shipman before he was found guilty of 15 murders.
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Days like this
Royal colleges' challenge to reforms. . . Clarke's 'disregard' slammed. . . Consultant opposition. . .Fears over chaplains. . . New pay structure. . .
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Shipman: not fair to ask doctors or managers to inquire
As a retired detective chief inspector who has spent 10 years investigating within the health sector, I have a deep affinity for healthcare professionals.
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Stressed to kill
NHS managers are more prone to stress than those in other sectors and suffer from it more than doctors or nurses.
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The art of Gentle Persuasion
The government's NHS reforms depend heavily on GPs. But they should be offered positive incentives to take part, argues Bob Royce
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A touch of the blues
Tony Blair paints public service workers as resistant to change in order to denigrate the idea of public service, according to Mick McKeown and Dave Mercer