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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Manager's departure adds to uncertainty
The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.
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Confederation should be less 'Anglo-centric'
Devolution has prompted the NHS Confederation to consider developing a separate Scottish organisation.
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PCGs under pressure to rush status change
Political pressure to produce rapid results and move to primary care trust status may be undermining the ability of primary care groups to achieve long-term change, a report has warned.
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Best practice group will aid development of co-operatives
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is seeking to kick-start the continuing development of local health care cooperatives with a new group to spread best practice.
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Days like this
Plans to cut London's non-emergency ambulance budget by 12 per cent have been rejected in favour of income generation proposals, but the LAS will still shift resources from routine to emergency services. Options include raising more from the sale of old vehicles, normally sold cheaply at auction, and charging more ...
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Trial and error
The deaths of premature babies at North Staffordshire Hospital have proved that the NHS still needs to change radically the way it regards patients.Kaye McIntosh reports on the latest lesson the NHS can't afford to ignore
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Absolutely fabulous
The New Health Network, set up to champion change by enthusing NHS staff, now has a chief executive who oozes enthusiasm and wants others to be as ecstatic.Lyn Whitfield reports
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Extremely simulating
HSJ 's Management Challenge gave contestants a vivid insight into the demands of their jobs - and one vowed to be nice to the city council for the rest of her life.Tash Shifrin was there
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Late tackle
The government wants NHS staff to help in the fight against crime.But there are misgivings that such collaboration will undermine patient confidentiality. Lynn Eaton reports
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WEB WATCH
What a bunch of clever clogs they are down at the Department of Health.NHSnet fell over, companies worldwide had to close down their computer systems, and even the US National Security Agency suffered a security breach.But apparently the DoH had no problems at all with the 'love bug'.
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Hot stuff
Lord Hunt has his temperature taken alongside Jasmin Khatun, a pupil at Birmingham's Oldknow primary school, during a visit to celebrate Nurses Day.The junior health minister also filled in a worksheet on the human body and learned to take his pulse.A number of trusts organised visits to schools to tell ...
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Highways and law lure two top chiefs
Two of the highest-profile chief executives in the NHS are leaving the health service.
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Head quits over change
The chief executive of a trust at the centre of a national media storm after a patient complained about finding 'do not resuscitate' on her notes has announced he is taking early retirement.
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Survey will seek to address NHS discrimination against disabled
An NHS drive to increase the number of staff with disabilities will include a national survey to establish the extent of discrimination at board level.
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Inquiry spells out new tissue retention codes
Trust chief executives should be responsible for ensuring that staff comply with any new laws introduced to ensure children's tissue is not retained without their parents' consent, according to an interim report by the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.