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Hospital bans millennium surgery
One of Scotland's flagship hospitals has announced that it will suspend elective surgery for a month over the millennium, in a move condemned by unions and politicians.
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Injunction win for suspended doctor
A doctor has won a court injunction against a trust which suspended him after he carried out an unauthorised audit of cancer screening results.
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Medical staff slate hospital's management
Doctors at a psychiatric hospital in Cumbria have claimed that services are being seriously damaged by mismanagement.
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Witness defends BRI's former chief
The management style of former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive Dr John Roylance has been defended at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry.
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Sign of the times
Judith Mackay, chair of Northern Birmingham Mental Health trust, signs a pledge in support of a Birmingham plan for a city-wide anti-smoking campaign. The Helping Birmingham Stop Smoking campaign was launched by Birmingham health authority chair Bryan Stoten and Birmingham city council leader Albert Bore. Mr Stoten also gave a ...
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Short Cuts: Waiting lists up again
Waiting lists moved further away from government targets again last month. Figures released by the Department of Health show the number of pat ients waiting to be admitted to hospital rose by 3,500 or 0.3 per cent from the end of April to the end of May and now stand ...
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Short Cuts: GMC widens doctor revalidation programme
The General Medical Council has launched a consultation exercise as part of its programme to develop a system for the revalidation of all registered doctors. Four groups involving a wide range of health organisations have been set up to look at junior doctors, GPs, specialists and public health doctors. Anybody ...
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Short Cuts: Call to end uncertainty over long-term elderly care
The Continuing Care Conference has urged the government to act to end the 'uncertainty' faced by many older people over their long-term care in its response to the report of the Royal Commission on Long-term Care of the Elderly. CCC, a coalition of commercial, charitable and public service organisations, says ...
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Short Cuts: HEA launches anti-smoking manual for schools
The Health Education Authority has launched a manual to help schools create a plan of action to educate young people about tobacco and reduce smoking on their own premises. It follows research showing that 91 per cent of schools have a smoking policy, but 63 per cent allow adults to ...
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Short Cuts: Merseyside sets up initiative against violence
Home secretary Jack Straw has launched the Merseyside zero-tolerance initiative, which aims to increase awareness of violence against women and children, a week after helping to launch the government's own initiative, Living Without Fear. The major funders of the initiative are the Merseyside health action zone and Safer Merseyside Partnership. ...
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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness
A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.
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Managers warn on PCT funding
Managers have warned that funding to smooth the development of primary care trusts must be pledged in the next batch of guidance on the reforms, due out later this month.
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Health inequalities inquiry to regather
Sir Donald Acheson has announced plans to call the members of his inquiry into health inequalities back together in the wake of an official response to his report last week.
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Dentists hold clients 'to ransom'
Dentists who accept children as NHS patients only if their parents register as private patients are to be 'named and shamed' by the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales.
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As you were
Staff nurse John Briggs relaxes in a reminiscence room created at Whitby Hospital's Spinnaker Lodge to stimulate the memories of older patients.
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Watching expiry dates
The public health white paper sets out ambitious targets for reducing deaths by 2010. Mark Crail canvassed responses to it and found widespread scepticism that it would reduce health inequalities
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Missing the connection
Clinical evidence is being undermined by inadequate access to the Internet and by poor training. Barbara Millar reports
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Last of the summer whines?
Now the whole medical profession is alienated. And it's all Tony Blair's fault. Joanna Lyall reports from the BMA's annual conference
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Here's looking at you
Primary care groups and other players in the new NHS should be watched carefully, the community health councils' annual conference heard. Pat Healy reports
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Mental health experts greet merger plans with scepticism
Guidance fleshing out plans to merge Britain's high-security hospitals with NHS trusts will do little to tackle 'entrenched problems' of recruitment, size and morale, according to mental health experts.