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Gloucestershire 'failed to learn' from West case
The health service in Gloucestershire has failed to learn the lessons of the Fred and Rosemary West case, according to an independent report commissioned by Gloucestershire health authority.
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Survey results: homelessness and ill-health
59 per cent of Big Issue vendors surveyed reported 'a long-term illness, health problem or handicap' limiting their daily activities or work. Of these, 31 per cent believed their problem to be drug-related.
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Scottish Office tells trusts to go it alone over millennium pay
The Scottish Office has told trusts they must make their own arrangements for dealing with millennium events in the face of union calls for a Scotland- wide agreement on pay.
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Mayor 'should be strong on health'
The King's Fund has called for London's new mayor to be given a much stronger role in promoting health.
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'Devolution will herald more battles' warning
The NHS in Scotland can look forward to increasing political scrutiny and battles over funding, according to experts at an Edinburgh conference last week.
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Short cuts Sex discrimination case worker accepts £14,000
A hospital manager has dropped a sex discrimination case against Stockport Healthcare trust after being offered £14,000 compensation. Julie Harratt was made redundant from her £25,000 job as facilities development manager at St Thomas Hospital in May, but applied to an industrial tribunal, alleging unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and victimisation. ...
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Short cuts Suspended GP is first to face new watchdog system
The first case heard under General Medical Council procedures introduced to deal with cases in which a doctor's professional performance appears 'seriously deficient' has led to the suspension of Arefaine Haile, a trainee GP in Yorkshire. A hearing found he was 'unable' to perform basic procedures such as taking blood ...
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Short cuts Campaign highlights not-so-merry Christmas meals
The British Medical Association's junior doctors committee has launched a campaign to draw attention to the plight of trainee doctors working over the holiday period. A Who Cares, We Do! campaign leaflet will be sent to 35,000 junior doctors, featuring a curling spam sandwich. 'While the rest of us enjoy ...
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Short cuts RCN calls for moves to stop older nurses quitting
The Royal College of Nursing has issued a 10-point plan to help employers keep older nurses in the profession. It was issued last week with a report by Jim Buchan, reader in the department of management at Queen Mary College, Edinburgh, saying one in five nurses on the register is ...
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Short cuts Survey finds increase in drug users sharing needles
The number of injecting drug users sharing syringes and other equipment is 'much higher' than previously recorded, according to a survey carried out by the centre for research on drugs and health behaviour at Imperial College School of Medicine. The survey of 1,214 users not in contact with drug services ...
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Short cuts Fresh guidelines will offer advice on egg sharing
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will issue new guidelines on 'the complex issue' of egg sharing in the next edition of its code of conduct. The HFEA decided last week not to stop women donating eggs in return for IVF treatment, concluding they were 'not motivated by money, but ...
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Why not stress the demands on managers?
I was surprised that the recent report from the Institute of Work Psychology was given such a low profile (News, page 3,
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A few points IHSM leaders forgot to mention
I must thank Institute of Health Services Management president Peter Homa and chair John Brunt for their reply (Letters, 19 November) to my letter
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We need action not words on rights and education for lesbians and gay men
The slogan for this year's World AIDS Day was 'Force for change, world AIDS campaign with young people'.
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Where there's a saving, there's also a loss
All this talk about general practices keeping savings seems a little out of touch (News Focus, pages 14-15, 19 November).
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GP fees for telephone advice Phoney argument militates against old- fashioned common sense...
Any system whereby we bring our services and advice nearer to the patient should be remunerated. In the near future, we will be having online consultations with specialists via electronic imaging.
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Sorry, got to go... I've run out of working time
I received the NHS circular about the European working- time directive on Monday morning.
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Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...
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10 December 1948
An explosion in an operating theatre was the subject of a question in the House of Commons to health minister Aneurin Bevan. Was he aware of the incident, said to have been due to a defective anaesthetic machine, which caused the death of a patient?