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Envelope of Bristol data passed to DoH
A senior Department of Health official was given a sealed envelope containing data about surgical outcomes at the Bristol Royal Infirmary during a taxi ride with 'whistleblower' Dr Stephen Bolsin, the inquiry into baby deaths at the hospital heard this week.
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Langlands points to shared responsibilities of all
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands told the inquiry last week that individuals and 'the system' were responsible for preventing clinical failures.
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Room with a view
Nurse Helen Coppock reflects on her new flat in Poland House, a nine-storey office block refurbished to provide affordable homes for healthcare workers by Peabody Unite and Barts and the London trust. It was officially opened last week.
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'No precedent' for scale of Wales changes
The health service in Wales has faced unprecedented change over the past year, director of NHS Wales Peter Gregory told managers last week.
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MPs put new health ministers on hold to launch inquiry into soaring drug costs
The Commons health select committee has delayed plans to question the new Department of Health ministerial team so it can launch an inquiry into the soaring cost of generic drugs.
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Short Cuts: Wait to see GP is patients' biggest bugbear
People under 45, members of ethnic minorities and Londoners are less satisfied with their GPs than other patients, the first national NHS survey has revealed. Many patients among the 100,000 questioned believe they have to wait too long to see their family doctor. Workers and full-time students were most critical ...
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Short Cuts: Coulter leaves King's Fund to join research body
Dr Angela Coulter is leaving her post as executive director of policy and development at the King's Fund to become chief executive of Picker Europe, a not-for-profit research organisation specialising in patients' experiences of health services. The organisation carried out the first national patient survey for the NHS, published last ...
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Short Cuts: MP says trust chief executive should forego pay-off
An MP has called for a trust chief executive who resigned following a critical NHS Executive report into the death of two patients to forego a £76,000 pay-off. In a House of Commons motion calling for the payment to Clive Uren, former chief executive of Eastbourne Hospitals trust, to be ...
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Short Cuts: Elderly people put their case to Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament has been urged to encourage closer integration of local government and health authorities in an action plan drawn up under three Better Government for Older People projects. Sixty elderly people presented their plan to the ministers responsible for transport and the environment, communities and community care at ...
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Short Cuts: Doctors to get benefits advice training
Doctors are to get special training to improve the quality, consistency and accuracy of medical advice on benefit entitlement, social security minister Hugh Bayley announced last week. He told MPs that he was determined to change the low status of disability assessment medicine in the medical profession and inadequate government ...
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Short Cuts: People with learning disabilities seek independence
A practical guide to help people with learning disabilities achieve independence says they want to live 'ordinary' lives and make their own decisions. The guide says that quality of life for people with learning disabilities would be improved by more information and support, more control over their money, and a ...
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Playing up
Three year old Fajer Al-Otaibi, who is deaf, plays with water at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, helped by play instructor Dionne Moodi.
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First-wave PCTs could number 19
Up to 19 independent primary care trusts could be established in the first wave of the government's reform of community and family health services next April.
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Demand outstrips supply of ICU beds
Demand for critical care beds is outstripping supply despite a rapid growth in bed numbers, an Audit Commission report has found.
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Performance pay 'will not work'
Offering NHS managers financial inducements to improve performance will not work and could be divisive, a study on motivating senior public servants has found.
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Huge survival rate variations
Returns to the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre show that 'on average one of every five ICU patients die on the unit', rising to 'one in three when subsequent deaths on the wards are included'.
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Denham snub to CHC's plea
Health minister John Denham has rejected a plea by Coventry community health council for a £200m private finance initiative hospital in the city centre.
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Days like this
Clarke stresses morale. . . Strategy to update staff. . . 'Superhospital' dropped. . . Ambulance crisis. . . HEA in report row. . . Mellor's disappointment. . .
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Smarty pants
Dr David Torgerson, senior research fellow at York University, and research nurse Ruth Hildreth displaying a pair of SafeHip shock-absorbing underwear, which has been developed to protect people at risk of fractured neck of femur. They are seeking 4,500 volunteers for a long-term trial to test the effectiveness of the ...
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NHS 'on target for Y2K'
The Department of Health has declared the NHS 'ready' for the millennium date change.