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Government may press on with a 'closer-to-home' beds strategy
The government looks set to push a long-term strategy to expand 'closer to-home' intermediate care services - despite a lack of evidence about whether such schemes actually work.
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Troubleshooter blasts HA for failure to tackle £20m deficit
A damning report on West Sussex health authority says it has failed to provide strategic leadership or implement the government's modernisation agenda.
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Hutton moves on home care costs
The government is to issue statutory guidance to eliminate 'huge variations' in charges for home care services, health minister John Hutton has announced.
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Councils appeal over mental health services bill
Four councils barred by the High Court from charging mental health patients for after-care services have appealed against the ruling this week.
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CHI boosts communications for abuse investigation
Further details have been issued of the Commission for Health Improvement's investigation of North Lakeland Healthcare trust, ordered by health secretary Alan Milburn in the wake of a report detailing abuse of elderly patients with mental health problems. A five-strong team has been appointed and CHI has announced it intends ...
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Public sector chiefs unite on anti-fraud measures
A public service forum to combat fraud has been launched by the Institute of Public Finance, the commercial arm of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. The Better Governance and Counter-Fraud Forum aims to bring together chief executives from local government, the health service, housing and police services ...
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Deacon seeks views on Scottish NHS Direct plan
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched formal consultation on introducing a '24hour health and care advice line' to Scotland, which does not have NHS Direct. It will offer health and advice, build links between out-of-hours services and 'provide an improved, more appropriate response to 999 callers who do not ...
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Scrutinised ambulance trust now meeting targets
East Anglian Ambulance trust, which was the subject of a regional office inquiry last March amid public concern about its performance, is now meeting national response times. The trust reached the scene of 96.4 per cent of emergencies within 19 minutes and 51.2 per cent within eight minutes last month. ...
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Mind highlights injustices for mental health patients
Mind has issued a survey showing that 78 per cent of professionals who responded believe people with mental health problems have difficulty getting justice if they are victims of crime.
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Hospital warns smokers: 'Give up or go outside'
City Hospital in Birmingham is planning to push smokers outside if they cannot quit. The hospital restricts smoking at the moment, but from 3 July will ban it from all parts of the building, except 'certain areas such as an outside garden which has been set aside for smokers unable ...
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DoH awaits cost of Euro court's landmark ruling over pensions
The government has been struggling this week to assess the cost to the NHS of a landmark European Court ruling on pension rights.
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Blow to hospital's 'radical redesign'
The £4.2m 're-engineering' of Leicester Royal Infirmary failed to transform the hospital 'to the extent and at the pace' intended, according to a report from Sheffield University and Warwick Business School.
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Health needs left out of regeneration plans
Health and social services are frequently left out of plans to regenerate run-down areas, a report by Leeds University's Nuffield Institute for Health has found.
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In Brief: website set up
A website has been set up to inform the public about the government's 'national plan' for NHS modernisation. It includes a button allowing people to send in their views.The website is www. nhs. uk/nationalplan.North West regional office has set up its own website, www.nhsmod-nw.co.uk. It assures staff they will not ...
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In Brief: The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on the use of coronary artery stents in ischaemic heart disease that recommends they should be considered in place of common treatments, including coronary artery bypass grafts.
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In Brief: £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced a £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales and undertake a review of children's play. She said the money would particularly help children in deprived areas.
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In Brief: Llandudno General Hospital
A shortage of laboratory staff has forced Llandudno General Hospital to refuse emergency admissions and divert patients up to 20 miles between 4pm and 9am.North West Wales trust director of operations and performance management Martin Jones said recruitment was 'a national problem'.A recent Institute of Biomedical Science survey showed that ...
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In Brief: Correction
In our news story concerning NHS planning director Alasdair Liddell's departure from the Department of Health (pages 4-5, 11 May), we misquoted NHS finance director Colin Reeves, whose wholehearted tribute to Mr Liddell included praise for his role in 'setting the strategic agenda for the NHS Executive'.The company Mr Liddell ...
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Ethnic babies' death risk doubled
Babies born in the UK to mothers originally from Pakistan or the Caribbean are twice as likely to die in infancy as babies whose mothers were born here, according to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.
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Peter Mount, chair of Salford Royal Hospitals trust (right), examines a 110year-old newspaper with Bernard O'Sullivan, managing director of E&C UK, a construction company.The newspaper was one of three found with Salford council minutes and other documents in a time capsule unearthed during demolition work at Ladywell Hospital.The capsule contents ...