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Bodies in chapel probe suggests chief executive was scapegoat
The final report into the bodies in the chapel at Bedford Hospital has increased speculation that the standing down of chief executive Ken Williams was a 'disproportionate' response prompted by the need for a scapegoat.
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Scots long-term care group to examine crossovers
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has revealed that the group looking into implementing free care for elderly people in Scotland will examine 'the inter-relationships with UK matters, notably the tax and social security benefits system and cross-border movement'. There has been some talk of introducing a residency qualification for people ...
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Fresh negotiations due on consultants' contracts
Consultants' leaders are to meet health secretary Alan Milburn on Tuesday in an attempt to kick-start negotiations on the new consultant contract. Talks stalled last month, with the British Medical Association claiming NHS Executive negotiators had failed to produce concrete proposals for the new contract, which is meant to come ...
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Chief executives and project will tackle staffing
Trust chief executives across London have agreed to organise agency staffing jointly through the London Agency Project. The project, based at London regional office, has invited staffing agencies to bid for London-wide contracts to provide nurses and other staff, initially in accident and emergency, critical care and operating theatres. The ...
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£50m hospital will kick off second wave of PFIs
A £50m hospital is to be built on the site of West Middlesex University Hospital, the first of the second wave of health service private finance initiative projects. A contract has been signed between the trust and the Bouygues Consortium for the rebuild, which is due to be completed in ...
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Nurse 'bullied by staff ' stole weight-loss drugs
A Cumbrian nurse who stole prescription drugs from her hospital because she believed they would help her lose weight has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence. Staff nurse Ruth Stewart pleaded guilty to stealing 11 Eltroxin 50 thyroid tablets from Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary. Her lawyer said Ms Stewart had ...
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30 per cent generic drugs bill fall saves NHS £180m
The NHS's generic drugs bill fell dramatically last year, health minister John Denham has revealed in a parliamentary written answer. Most of the 30 per cent fall in prices paid by the health service came 'in anticipation of and in response to'the introduction of a government price cap on a ...
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Suspended judgement
A nursing home designed with stakeholder input exposed patient advocates to the highs and lows of bringing a project to fruition, as Simon Jones and Paul Mercer report
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Long and winding road
Refugee doctors could be a valuable resource for the NHS. But they face huge hurdles, including being charged for placements. Barbara Millar reports
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Lucky break: 'I do not mind where I work. I have already come a long way - more than 9,000 miles'
A chance meeting in a public library in Ilford, Essex, resulted in Dr Abebe Diro Ejara, a refugee from Ethiopia, receiving the help he needed to pursue a medical career in the UK.
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Nursing ambitions for building a new future
Any refugee applicant who wants to register with the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is treated the same way as any other overseas applicant, explains spokesman John Knape.
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Scottish review urges compulsory treatment
A review of Scottish mental health legislation has echoed proposals south of the border by calling for compulsory treatment orders in the community and new systems to deal with mentally disordered offenders.
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Closure of HIV unit as cases soar
An independent centre for HIV and AIDS care has announced a series of redundancies and closures in the same week that the Public Health Laboratory Service predicted that the number of new diagnoses looks set to rise again.
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Days like this
Managers may have their performance partly measured against national health promotion targets, according to a Department of Health document.
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There is the catch
Measures to improve relations between the NHS and the prison service are hampered by a suspicion that prison healthcare is not exactly a priority, writes Ann McGauran
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A perfect partnership?
Director of nursing for the prison healthcare taskforce Lindsay Bates says progress with the needs assessments for the PHImPs is 'generally good'and 'all are on target to complete'by the deadline.
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Turning the tables
Private companies are making nice profits from producing highly contentious hospital league tables. is not it time the NHS built up its own expertise in collating performance data? Laura Donnelly reports
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'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict
A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...
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After the gold rush
The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH