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Short cuts Denham plans speed-up on non-executive posts
Health minister John Denham has announced government plans to speed up the appointment of trust and health authority non-executive directors. He told last week's NHS Executive conference on human resources that regional boards had set in place 'work to look at how we can streamline processes and avoid some of ...
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Short cuts Expert panel to help Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry
A group of 35 experts in 14 different specialties has been appointed to help the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry. Evidence will be taken from the medical royal colleges and other professional organisations when the inquiry resumes on 19 April. In its first three weeks, the inquiry took oral evidence from ...
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Short cuts Free eye tests for elderly people reintroduced
Free eye tests for people aged over 60 were restored on 1 April, reversing the policy of the past 10 years. The Royal National Institute for the Blind estimates that 500,000 people could have their sight saved as a result. Health secretary Frank Dobson said restoring free eye tests was ...
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Short cuts Guy's watchers predict 'disastrous' A&E closure
A campaign is starting this week to monitor the effects of closing the accident and emergency department at Guy's Hospital, south London. Guy's Watch claims that the closure, in September, will prove 'disastrous'. A spokesperson for Guy's and St Thomas's trust said that Southwark health authority had already invested in ...
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Short cuts King's Fund quality body goes independent
The Health Quality Service, set up last year as an autonomous part of the King's Fund, is to become an independent charitable body. HQS, formerly known as Organisational Audit, works with both the NHS and the private sector to improve the quality of care.
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Short cuts Counsellors issue commissioning guide for PCGs
A guide to commissioning managed counselling services has been published by the Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Primary Care. Chair Joan Foster says counsellors, most of whom are on individual contracts, fear that counselling in GP surgeries will collapse with the start of primary care groups, 'despite its proven ...
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'Get tough' message for Wales
Welsh secretary Alun Michael has signalled a tougher financial regime for trusts and health authorities in Wales.
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Quarter of PCGs start without a chief executive
One primary care group in four will go live today without a chief executive in post, an HSJ survey has revealed.
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Unions seek details as pay talks remain stalled
Health unions have agreed to seek clarification on key issues in the government's proposals for a new NHS pay system.
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Waiting-list target hit a month ahead of schedule
The government's pledge to cut waiting lists to pre-election levels has been achieved a month early in England.
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Heads you win
Noorece Ahmed, press officer for the Wellcome Trust, takes a close look at an exhibit in 'The New Anatomists', a show at the trust's Two 10 Gallery in London. The exhibition covers works by scientists and artists interested in the 'inner workings' of the body. Exhibitions manager Denna Jones said ...
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Intensive care doctors warn of non-payment by private insurers
Doctors running NHS intensive care units have expressed growing concern that private insurers are refusing to pick up the tab for patients transferred from the private sector.
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'Tell private hospitals' call
NHS managers have been urged to tell private hospitals when they strike off a consultant.
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Prison healthcare working group avoids shifting onus on to the NHS
Proposals for managing prison healthcare have shied away from shifting accountability to the NHS.
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Bristol inquiry hears 'enforcement vacuum' evidence
The Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry has heard evidence of a 'vacuum in relation to the enforcement of standards relating to paediatric cardiac services'.
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Roylance appeal to privy council fails
The Privy Council has dismissed Dr John Roylance's appeal against being struck off for his part in the Bristol case.
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Cash-strapped HA under fire over HIV cutbacks
A health authority facing a £1.5m funding shortfall has been attacked for threatening to cut spending on HIV and AIDS.