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Short cuts Parish protests as ambulance siren 'disturbs peace'
An ambulance trust has come under fire for using sirens and 'disturbing the peace' of a village in Suffolk. East Anglian Ambulance trust was criticised last month for 'overstating' response times in an independent inquiry. Now parish councillors in Cavendish, near Sudbury, have written to the trust protesting that sirens ...
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Short cuts Campaigners launch designer bike helmet scheme
The Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust has launched a 'prescription' scheme to bring 'designer' cycle helmets within reach of more children. About 100,000 children need hospital treatment every year as a result of cycling accidents, but only 18 per cent of young riders wear helmets. The BHIT says children are more ...
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Dobson agrees to ICU meeting
Intensive care managers will tell health secretary Frank Dobson that patients are being put at risk by bed and staff shortages, at a meeting set to take place weeks after South East regional office ordered a 'stock- take' of intensive care provision.
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'Admit rationing and justify it' King's Fund tells government
The government should admit rationing is inevitable and back efforts to make the process fairer and more transparent, the King's Fund has said.
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NHSnet 'is not millennium-compliant'
A key part of the NHS information strategy is not millennium-proof even though it was built less than five years ago, according to a report for the NHS Executive.
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Conservative reforms get Bristol scrutiny
The impact of the Conservative government's NHS reforms will come under the spotlight at the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Consultants are stripped of merit awards
Senior consultants have been stripped of merit awards for the first time by the Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards.
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White man's burden Proportion
White man's burden Proportion of awards to ethnic minorities (12.9 per cent of the consultant workforce in England and Wales).This year: 9.6 per cent; 1996 (the most recent year with which comparisons can be made - England only): 6.2 per cent.
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Get the picture?
Get the picture? motorcycle paramedic Andy Whatling puts a new lapel-mounted camera through its paces. The camera relays pictures to other system users via a belt-mounted computer.