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King's Fund director believes 'rationing is inevitable'
King's Fund director of policy and development Angela Coulter was due to tell an international conference today that 'rationing is inevitable' and politicians 'must take a lead and stop pretending that the NHS can meet all demands'. She was also due to tell the Priorities in Healthcare conference that the ...
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Watson elected as RCN president
Christine Watson has been elected president of the Royal College of Nursing and will take over from Dame Betty Kershaw after its annual general meeting on 21 October. Ms Watson had a 30-year career in the NHS and has been deputy president of the RCN for the past four years.
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Extra £1.4m safeguards South Wales cardiac ops
The government has found an additional £1.4m to support adult cardiac surgery in south Wales. The money is to safeguard operations at University Hospital of Wales and is in addition to money already announced for a new cardiac centre at Morriston Hospital. A review of cardiac services in 1993 concluded ...
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Survey uncovers disabled children's unfit housing
Poor housing is making life harder for disabled children and adding to the burden of parents who care for them, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has concluded. The study of 200 families in Yorkshire and north east England found three out of four had homes that were in ...
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Neglect 'contributed' to pensioner's hospital death
A coroner has condemned a London hospital's alleged failure to examine an emergency patient for two-and-a-half hours and described claims that a nursing sister tried to cover up the blunder as 'inexcusable and reprehensible'. St Pancras coroner Stephen Chan heard last week that 89-year-old Albert Range was admitted to the ...
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Plaster makes perfect
Christine Smith, a technician from Calderdale Healthcare trust, applies a new form of plaster cast at a four-day workshop in Bradford. The technique uses a single material and results in shorter, lighter and more comfortable casts than traditional methods.
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Review bodies told to be 'fair'
NHS pay review bodies must stand up to the government and recommend inflation-busting pay rises for doctors and nurses, unions said last week.
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Psychiatrists spark anger
A five-year campaign by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness got off to a rocky start this week when aggrieved service users planned a protest march on the day of the launch.
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On the record
PHIL GRAY became chief executive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy this summer. He was formerly head of labour relations for the Royal College of Nursing.
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Money's too tight to mention
One of the most fiercely opposed hospital merger plans has failed to deliver the promised millions in of pounds in savings. Last week, managers met the public to explain why. Lyn Whitfield was there
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Public health's new top doc
Chief medical officer Liam Donaldson combines clinical and management experience. He has been a 'team player' under both Labour and Conservative governments. Wendy Moore meets a pragmatist with both passionate admirers and critics
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Nyes not Tonies
An award for good practice named after the founder of the NHS was one of the 'appetisers' thrown to Labour delegates at Blackpool, but they made it clear that pay is still the key issue. Patrick Butler reports
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No happy returns
Health minister Alan Milburn wants to encourage trained nursing staff who no longer work in the NHS to return. But is the number of would-be returners really as many as he would like to believe? Mark Crail reports
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Give and take
Chief executives confessed they were still struggling to get to grips with joint working.
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Chips with everything
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bug imbroglio, IT managers are now being asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell
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Continuity announcements
Scottish trust chairs have their work cut out carrying forward health improvement programmes amid major reorganisation. Laura Donnelly reports