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In Brief: Survey of infertility service
A survey of clinicians working with infertile couples has found that eight out of 10 would welcome national guidance on infertility policy and six out of 10 believe the government should provide a fully funded service. The survey is part of a report which concludes that 'treatment by postcode' is ...
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In Brief: Mencap report on NHS
The NHS is failing people with learning disabilities, according to a Mencap report. It says they are missing out on health checks and specialist services, and women are 'being left out of ' cancer screening programmes. Hospital staff have 'scant understanding' of learning disabilities, it claims.
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In Brief: Commission for Health Improvement
The introduction of the Commission for Health Improvement will require 'a new collaboration' between doctors and government in a shift to 'a more transparent process of accountability', Andrew Foster, controller of the Audit Commission, said in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the NHS.
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Bristol deaths prompt call to re-test doctors
The public inquiry into the heart baby deaths set up in the wake of action against three Bristol doctors should consider forcing consultants to requalify every five years, a leading health policy analyst said this week.
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Controversial ACHCEW chief takes Labour whip in Lords
Community health councils chief Toby Harris has been made a working peer, taking the Labour whip in the Lords.
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Banner headlines
Donna Harcourt, a pupil at Bishopsgate School, Stockton-on-Tees, puts the finishing touches to one of 50 banners on the theme 'health for life' which will hang in the corridors of North Tees General Hospital.
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Scotland ahead in fight to beat IT bug
More than 80 per cent of NHS computer systems in Scotland will be free of the millennium bug by the end of March 1999, with work to 'firm up' compliance among stragglers being carried out during the rest of the year, MPs have been told.
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Milburn outlines his vision of 'third way' for public services
Health minister Alan Milburn last week set out his view of the way forward for public services, harnessing the Blairite jargon of the 'third way' to range far beyond his NHS brief to take in education and social services.
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Short Cuts: Review of board members' liability 'welcome'
A review of the legal liability of people serving on NHS and other public service boards has been welcomed by the NHS Confederation. Policy director Derek Day said the report, by the Committee on Standards in Public Life, would be widely welcomed.
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Short Cuts: Healthcare workers top suicide risk list
Healthcare workers are prominent among the occupational groups most likely to kill themselves, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Doctors, nurses, other healthcare professionals and ward orderlies are in the top 10 groups of women most likely to take their lives. Among men, doctors, dentists and pharmacists ...
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Short Cuts: Irvine urges tough line over assaults on staff
The Lord Chancellor has urged magistrates to get tough on offenders who attack health workers. Sentences should 'act as a deterrent', he told a magistrates' conference last week.
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Short Cuts: RCN launches union rights consultation
The Royal College of Nursing is consulting its members on the Fairness at Work white paper, asking whether they agree with its view that union negotiating rights should cover professional issues such as patient care. Josie Irwin, of the RCN's labour relations department, says views put forward will feature in ...
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Short Cuts: Hunt fails in bid for Welsh Assembly health body
Former NHS Confederation chief executive Lord Hunt called unsuccessfully last week for a statutory body to speak on behalf of the health service to the Welsh Assembly. Speaking during the House of Lords committee stage of the Government of Wales Bill, he said a health advisory council consisting of NHS ...
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Short Cuts: HSJ journalist scoops writer of the year award
The Medical Journalists' Association has named HSJ special correspondent Barbara Millar as its specialist feature writer of the year. She won the award for an investigation of freemasonry in the NHS ('Hear, see, be silent', 8 February 1996). HSJ deputy editor Mark Crail took second place in the specialist news ...
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New powers for commissioner 'can cut lawsuits against NHS'
New powers for the health service commissioner to investigate clinical complaints could mean fewer legal actions against the NHS, his annual report suggests today.
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Light fantastic
Pain control nurse Sharon Baldwin at the launch of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust's Snoezelen room - thought to be the first in the UK to be used for acute pain control.
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Forces health chief quits before review
The armed forces healthcare agency is to lose its chief executive early next month - shortly before the findings of a radical review of military hospitals are made public.
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Labour turns the tables over board nominations
Labour nominees on NHS boards outnumber Tories by two to one following a 1,000-strong influx of new non-executives since the election, an HSJ analysis of figures released by the Department of Health last week reveals.
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Bishop makes his mark
What the public said to the bishop and the peer was that they wanted an alternative to the health authority's plans. Pat Healy reports
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Corps services
After a critical report on military health services, army and civilian staff at an MoD hospital unit in one NHS acute trust are soldiering on together, writes Lyn Whitfield