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Public consultation to decide on the NHS's next step
Public 'juries' in 10 cities linked up live last week to kick off a huge consultation to help decide nothing less than the NHS's future. And the prime minister put in a suprise appearance. Helen Mooney reports
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Labour conference: health secretary tackles flagging morale and 24-hour drinking
Improving the morale of staff is not the first aim of Lord Darzi's review of the future of the NHS, health secretary Alan Johnson has admitted - but 'buy-in' by employees will be essential to its success.
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Dignity in older people's care needs improvement
Hospitals must step up efforts to provide dignity in care to older people, the Healthcare Commission has warned.
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Childbirth choice increases
Women must have greater control over not just where they give birth but how they do so, according to new NHS guidelines for England and Wales.The framework, published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, says women must have the option as to where they give birth - ...
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New guidelines for research ethics committees
The Royal College of Physicians has launched its updated and extended guidelines for research ethics committees that are considering research involving human subjects.
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Institutional discrimination rife in NHS, says rights commission
Institutional discrimination is still rife in the NHS because poor central leadership is failing to protect disabled people from unfair treatment, according to the Disability Rights Commission.
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New awards added to NHS bursary scheme
Pre-registration healthcare students who wish to adopt a child will be able to take a 45-week break from their studies and continue to receive their NHS bursary payments, chief nursing officer Christine Beasley has announced.
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Children to be weighed in bid to tackle obesity
The Department of Health has released a national child measurement programme, part of the government’s work on childhood obesity.The guidance was developed following wide consultation with primary care trusts and schools. It provides advice to PCTs on arrangements for measuring the height and weight of primary and middle school children.
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Adoption award added to bursary scheme
Adoption and maternity support awards will be introduced to the NHS bursary scheme from September 2007 following an agreement between the Department of Health and unions.
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Allergy services 'lagging behind', report claims
A House of Lords science and technology committee report on allergies has idenfied a ‘severe shortage of allergy specialists in the UK’ and that ‘clinical services lag far behind’ most of Europe.
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Campaign to cut child deaths launched
In an effort to cut maternal and child deaths, a global coalition of governments and organisations will launch an advocacy drive today entitled Deliver Now for Women and Children.
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Computerised recruitment must be fully tested, says BMA
Any future computer-based system for recruiting junior doctors must be ‘tested to destruction’, the British Medical Association has said.
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Reach out to excluded groups, urges NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation report In Sickness and In Health states that moves to create a personalised NHS must start with the most excluded and work to tackle health inequality.
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Survey investigates malnutrition
A three-day survey has been launched to establish how many people across the UK are malnourished when admitted to hospital and care homes.According to the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the results will provide hospitals and care homes with evidence of the scale of the problem in their ...
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Assembly sets out to improve public's diet
A consultation designed to help improve eating habits has been launched by the Welsh Assembly.
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Study compares trusts' financial performance
Researchers at York University have found that significant differences in the performance of foundation and non-foundation trusts are long-standing and not the result of this policy change.
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New hospital hygiene regulator announced
The Department of Health has announced the next steps in its bid to improve cleanliness and infection control in hospitals.
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New proposals to improve cancer care
A new cancer reform strategy published this autumn will set out proposals to improve cancer care, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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Communication disabilities neglected
NHS managers lack the skills needed to identify and commission services for people with communication disabilities, according to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.