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Nurse regulation plans will 'fail'on all counts
Government proposals for a new regulatory authority for the nursing profession would not only fail to enhance public protection and speed up professional conduct processes, 'but if enacted would achieve the opposite', the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has announced.In its response to the government's draft ...
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Welsh coronary heart disease framework unveiled
Welsh health minister Jane Hutt has announced a national service framework for coronary heart disease, backed by funding of up to £3m from the new health inequalities fund for projects that tackle the disease.Ms Hutt said the framework would enable health professionals to provide high-quality services, reduce the number of ...
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Social services struggle under dementia demand
Seven out of 10 social services departments say they cannot cope with the demand for beds for elderly people with dementia, according to a report from the Liberal Democrats.Out of Sight: the forgotten elderly also found that 58 per cent of social services departments report shortfalls in provision of specialised ...
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Government must explain inequality strategy
The National Association of Primary Care has challenged the government to explain how it intends to reduce health inequalities.In a letter to public health minister Yvette Cooper, NAPC chairman Dr Peter Smith writes that there is 'growing concern that if the findings of the Acheson report are not addressed soon, ...
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Fritchie offers backing for abolition-threatened CHCs
Dame Rennie Fritchie has publicly vouched support for the work done by community health councils, in a move that appears to distance her from government policy, which is set on abolishing the patient watchdogs.Dame Rennie, commissioner for public appointments, made her comments following a conference of 100 members of London ...
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HImPs are failing children, say charities
Health improvement programmes continue to show 'major weaknesses' in their treatment of children and young people's health, a report by children's charities including the Children's Society and NSPCC has found.
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CHI overhauls its review process to allay criticism
The Commission for Health Improvement is redesigning its clinical governance review process in a bid to get closer to the 'heart' of the hospital patient's experience.
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Mental health service hit by scandal gives patients voice
Mental health services which were the centre of a high-profile patient abuse scandal have made huge leaps to involve patients in their management, local service users have declared.
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Doctors get say in cancer cash
Clinicians are to be given the power to say how a multi-million pound investment should be spent to change Scottish cancer services, under plans launched by health minister Susan Deacon.
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London trusts to check on quality of agencies
A project which will allow London trusts to check cost and quality ratings for staff agencies before they hire them is to be launched in September.
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Days like this
Dorrell heckled. . . Consultants avoid probe. . .BMA chair escapes censure. . .Manager manoeuvred into retirement. . .Skills campaign
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A virtuoso performance
conference focus : Conductor and management guru Benjamin Zander got the conference off to a 'transformational'start by getting delegates singing, clapping and joining hands.Paul Smith was there