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Security crackdown planned for special hospitals
Patients are to be banned from receiving food or tobacco sent from outside Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton special hospitals as part of a security and safety crackdown announced last week by health minster John Hutton. He also announced that patients are to be routinely tested for illicit substances and there ...
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'Battles' inevitable if medical committee is abolished
The medical practices committee is urging the government to reconsider proposals laid out in the NHS plan to abolish it.
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MPs' group to push for improved maternity services
Julia Drown MP has launched the all-party parliamentary maternity group, set up to campaign for improvements in maternity services. The group, launched last week with the backing of Royal College of Midwives general secretary Karlene Davis, will be pressing the government to set national standards in maternity services to ensure ...
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Views sought on organ retention after post-mortem
The Scottish Executive is to seek the views of the public on the retention of organs after post-mortem examinations. A review group, set up by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon and chaired by Professor Sheila McLean, is investigating previous practice in relation to hospital post-mortems and post-mortems required by law. ...
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Test case may clarify UKCC 'judge and jury' concern
Fears that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by acting as judge and jury in misconduct cases could be clarified in a test case which started last week. The Royal College of Nursing, with the support of the ...
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NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines
Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.
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Days like this
All but 10 of the 66 applications for the first-wave of trusts have been approved, although consultants Coopers and Lybrand, which appraised all the applications, say only 14 are financially watertight.
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Elderly 'too scared to complain'
Older people are frightened to complain about NHS services for fear of reprisals, and those who do are unlikely to get a response for months if not years, according to a new report from Age Concern.
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Finders, keepers
Can the UK's largest employer solve acute staffing shortages in all sectors? Jeremy Davies reports
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Home truths: calling all local heroes
Wolverhampton health action zone has beacon status for its work to improve recruitment and retention among its local community. Through four linked strategies, the zone has started to recruit much more effectively.
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Far and wide: the broader picture
Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust has recruited an extra 150 nurses over the last two years, with a further 40 due to join between now and January. The trust has also attracted 42 extra consultants since 1998.Overall its staff turnover rate has dropped from 17 per cent to around 10 per ...
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Parallels between Princess Di (as was) and finance directors are rare. Colin Reeves would never have called himself 'the people's finance director' - it wasn't in his nature. Yet news that the NHS' top bean-counter is to pack away his scientific calculator for the last time has shaken the foundations ...
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Dear Mel. . .
A letter in a recent HSJ pointed out that the NHS doesn't need to use private sector beds - all it needs to do is bring back into use some of those thousands already lying unused.
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'A&E only' ultimatum to violent patients panned
Patients' groups say plans by acute hospitals in Glasgow to restrict violent and aggressive patients to emergency treatment only are unworkable.
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Trusts no longer clueless
Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland has contracted its forensic medical services out to Lothian primary care trust.
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Days like this
Speculation about a change in health policy is rife following Margaret Thatcher's resignation as prime minister and her replacement by John Major. But it is thought unlikely that health secretary William Waldegrave - appointed only last month - would be moved in any Cabinet reshuffle.
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Airline-style hospital appointments were one of New Labour's favourite visions for a patient-friendly NHS.But progress has been mixed, says Ann McGauran
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All's Hellawell that ends well?
The government's anti-drugs strategy has received almost universal praise - except that few believe it will work, writes Paul Stephenson
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A problem shared
It's pooled budgets with a difference in one part of east London, as the NHS helps social services withstand swingeing cuts in service provision. Tash Shifrin reports
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Right on target
An enterprising scheme to help mothers in one of the most deprived areas of the country is being staffed by members of their own communities. Barbara Millar reports