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Primary care has an ageing workforce. A quarter of GP principals, half of single-handed doctors, and 44 per cent of practice managers in this study were over 50.
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There are major governance issues for primary care trusts which need to be addressed now.
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Internal factors influencing PCT design
Governance tensions between PCG boards and their constituencies and partners;
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'Bolam test' didn't save HA from smear defeat
Women's confidence in the reliability of cervical smear tests is bound to have been dented by the cases brought against Kent and Canterbury health authority by three women who developed cervical cancer.
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Courts could uphold right to free nursing care
Action has been eagerly awaited since the landmark High Court ruling last December that the NHS has a legal duty to provide free nursing care and cannot shift the liability to local authorities, which charge those who have the means to pay.
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A ground-breaking employment tribunal award of £103,000 for disability discrimination has been increased to £167,000. British Sugar was ordered to pay £103,000 to partially-sighted Nick Kirker in 1997 for unfairly selecting him for redundancy. Now the tribunal has ordered the company to meet his tax liabilities on the award, as ...
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Remember that letter from Dobbo asking how to improve the health service? Well, it's exactly a year since he sent it to a million staff in a bid to revive Royal Mail's fortunes. Alas it didn't turn out like that. Despite a deafening silence ever since, Monitor can exclusively reveal ...
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Short cuts £40m earmarked to put an end to mixed-sex wards
The government is directing £40m of this year's £1.1bn NHS capital investment programme towards eliminating mixed-sex wards. Health secretary Frank Dobson, who described the allocation as 'the first real-terms increase in capital for the NHS in the last five years', said 95 per cent of health authorities should be able ...
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Short cuts Colorectal cancer screening pilots announced
Ministers have announced colorectal cancer screening pilot services for England and Scotland. The English site is in Coventry and Warwickshire. The Scottish pilot is in Tayside, Grampian and Fife. The project will run for two years, with screening kits sent to patients' homes, before being sent to laboratories for testing. ...
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Short cuts Call for action on private healthcare 'deficiencies'
The government has been urged to tackle 'fundamental deficiencies' in private healthcare by Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. In evidence to the health select committee, AVMA says 'inadequate specialist medical and nursing cover' is a 'critical factor' in failures to diagnose post- operative complications at private hospitals. It says ...
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Short cuts Researchers say ovarian cancer checks 'premature'
Women should not be screened for ovarian cancer until 'further research provides a better understanding of the potential benefits, harms and risks involved', according to the NHS centre for reviews and dissemination in York. The CRD says that although 'intuitively, it seems common sense that early detection of a cancer ...