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Health visitors and school nurses have called for urgent talks with the Home Office on their role in a £30m campaign designed to reduce child crime and improve parenting. The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association says it does not want its members to be seen as 'law enforcers'.
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Unison is calling on the government to follow the lead of many US states by introducing retractable syringes to British hospitals. The union estimates that 200,000 NHS staff a year receive needlestick injuries while using syringes which would be illegal in the US.
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news in brief Public health minister Tessa Jowell
Public health minister Tessa Jowell is to host a 'summit' of editors, journalists and broadcasters from youth media in a bid to enlist their help in work towards halving the number of teenage pregnancies by 2010. The summit will take place before the end of the year.
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news in brief The government
The government has claimed that nine out of 10 women referred urgently by their GP with suspected breast cancer were seen by a consultant within 14 days in the first three months after its waiting time promise came into operation. Health secretary Frank Dobson described this as a 'remarkable achievement' ...
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Visual disabilities charities have joined forces to improve the recognition and management of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness. A survey by the newly formed AMD Alliance International showed that only 2 per cent of the UK population were aware of AMD.
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Greater Glasgow health board has agreed proposals to build a new secure care centre at Stobhill Hospital to accommodate mentally ill offenders. The 76-bed unit will be built at a cost of £12.5m, with annual running costs of approximately £5.7m.
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PCGs warn of losing battle against soaring drug prices
Primary care groups have warned that soaring drug costs could lead to city-wide overspends of up to £1m.
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Long-term care silence dubbed 'very worrying'
A member of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care has attacked government 'silence' over its report.
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Government set for collision course over new holiday pay
The government has provoked a new row with unions over how NHS bodies should implement enhanced holiday pay rates demanded by the working- time directive.
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Doing the sums: what nurses would receive
The government says enhanced holiday rates would be worth £165 a year for a full-time nurse, and more for nurses working mainly unsocial hours.
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Bristol inquiry hears of opposition to DoH monitoring performance
The former head of the Department of Health has told the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry that there was 'no system' of measuring the quality of care provided by the NHS in the 1980s.
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A survey of 140 trust nursing directors, by Pay and Workforce Research and the newsletter Employing Nurses and Midwives, has found that their average basic pay is now 73 per cent of a chief executive's salary, compared with 66 per cent in 1998. Respondents said they had wider responsibilities, including ...
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Called to the bar:
Called to the bar: health secretary Frank Dobson watches patients using therapy equipment during a visit to Withington Therapy Centre last week. The £600,000 therapy centre, funded by Manchester health authority, provides rehabilitation in a shopping area, rather than hospital, and was developed after consultation with local people.