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Boosted NHS role in jails 'will be costly'
Proposals to increase NHS responsibility for prison healthcare could have 'high-cost implications' for the health service, prison reformers have warned.
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'Act now on our long-term care findings' chair urges ministers
The chair of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care has urged ministers to act swiftly on his team's recommendations.
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Partnership duty will apply equally, says DoH
The Department of Health has moved to reassure health service managers that the duty of partnership set out in the Health Bill will apply equally to the NHS and local government.
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Group set to tackle big seven
Baroness Hayman was speaking on the eve of the first meeting of the external reference group that will draw up a national service framework for older people, focusing on NHS services.
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Pay anger brewing as talks begin
Talks open today on the government's proposed new pay system for the NHS, as signs of trouble are emerging over low pay offers to non-pay review body staff.
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Temperamental e-mail puts plan to link GPs with NHSnet on hold
Moves to put all GPs on to the NHS's national communications network are being delayed amid a flood of complaints about the unreliability of its electronic mail service.
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MPs unhappy over food agency's role
MPs have criticised ministers for refusing to give health promotion responsibilities to an independent food standards agency.
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Trusts 'saving on nurses'
Trusts must stop trying to save money by employing fewer senior nurses, Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock demanded last week.
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Merger sees number of trusts halved
The outcome of consultation on plans to merge trusts in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan has been announced.
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Staff strike as PFI row rumbles on
Indefinite strike action by staff protesting against a private finance initiative project was due to start this week at one of London's largest trusts.
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Damning with faint praise
Nurses may have grudgingly voted to accept the pay award, but the government has its work cut out if the profession is to get 'on-message'. Pat Healy caught the mood at the RCN congress
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Hot under the collar over lukewarm response to royal commission
Nurses showed that they were furious with the government for its lukewarm response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care.
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Racism: a tough act to follow
Delegates voted overwhelmingly that, in the light of the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence, 'issues related to the institutional racism within the RCN and the healthcare systems of the UK' should be properly addressed. But this came only after widespread anger among delegates at the defeat of ...
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Matron does the rounds
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe was in fine form at the Tories' spring forum and put PCGs on notice. Patrick Butler listened in
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Once bitten...
The Food Standards Agency's HQ was announced on the first anniversary of the BSE inquiry. But will it win public confidence? Mark Crail reports