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Report urges caution on revamped charter
The patient's charter is 'flawed and constraining' and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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MPs told of new need for doctors
MPs have been warned that the European working time directive will create additional demand for extra doctors.
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Patients' deaths spark call for swift action on hospital suicides
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has called for action to 'stem the flow of hospital suicides' in the wake of two reports into 13 patient deaths at neighbouring trusts.
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Finance staff training scheme hits the road
Up to 16,000 NHS finance staff will be offered training to help them cope with the government's sweeping health service reforms.
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Dorrell had 'time of stress' over CJD
Former Conservative health secretary Stephen Dorrell told the BSE inquiry this week that he experienced a 'time of stress' during intense media speculation about new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Report identifies 'bottlenecks' in Scottish A&E
Recommendations to streamline the admission and discharge of emergency patients were made this week by the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
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The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill,
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, designed to make it easier for hospitals to recover charges for treating road accident victims from insurance companies, has been published. It would also abolish the rarely collected £21.30 emergency treatment fee and replace other levies with a £354 charge for accident and emergency ...
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Money talk
Sir Donald Acheson's '39 steps' to reduce health inequalities have not been costed. But they point clearly to a need to increase spending - particularly on benefits. Mark Crail reports
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Top three priorities
All government policies likely to have a direct or indirect effect on health should be evaluated in terms of their impact on health inequalities, and should favour the less well-off. High priority should be given to policies aimed at improving health and reducing health inequalities in women of childbearing age, ...
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Recommendations for the NHS
Equitable access to effective care in relation to need should be a governing principle of all NHS policies. Priority should be given to achieving equity in service planning, implementation and delivery at all levels. Specifically:
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Bridge over troubled waters
Relations between the NHS and the local council in Solihull were difficult - but the borough now has a joint public health director. Laura Donnelly reports
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Altered States
Finance managers who went on a study tour to the US say primary care groups can learn from moves away from market criteria in contract setting. Mark Crail reports
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Group practice makes perfect
'The shifting organisational pattern of doctors may be the key to the fortune of health policy in the US'
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Heading to come
For some of us old enough to remember the suppression of the Black report on inequalities in health back in 1980, the publication of former chief medical officer Sir Donald Acheson's son of Black report felt a bit like the arrest of General Pinochet - long overdue revenge on behalf ...
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Black cloud casts shadow over a toothless Acheson Report blows opportunity to create touchstone for measuring inequality
If Sir Donald Acheson had been called on to write Labour's election manifesto before the 1997 campaign, it is certain that prime minister Tony Blair would have fought on a more radical and redistributive - perhaps even socialist - platform than anything put forward by his party for many years ...
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Head to come This blurb
All leave is hereby cancelled, Territorial Army and Red Cross members are urged to contact their organisations, triage centres are to be set up at known trouble spots, and routine work will be wound down to cope with an anticipated three or fourfold increase in casualties. As the millennium approaches, ...