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In from the cold
Health workers are involved in a joint team with other agencies to help rough sleepers off the streets. Family doctor Nigel Hewett describes its impact on 72 clients over six months
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Duel carriageway
How could the new statutory duty of partnership placed on health and local authorities change existing relationships and working partnerships? David Owens thinks the road leads to conflict
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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
The NHS will have to rely on the good will of power, water and telephone companies for priority treatment if the millennium computer bug hits supplies, it emerged this week.
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Hillingdon strikers win reinstatement
A three-year dispute at Hillingdon Hospital has ended with an industrial tribunal ruling that 25 Asian domestic and catering staff, sacked for refusing to take cuts in pay and conditions, should be reinstated and paid compensation totalling almost 300,000.
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Fraud costs vulnerable people 1m a year
At least 1,500 elderly and vulnerable people are being defrauded of up to 1m each year by people, including nursing home staff, who are trusted to take over their financial affairs.
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Long-term care commission look to Australia
Proposals to reform care for elderly people in Britain are likely to borrow from the system in Australia, it emerged this week.
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On the record
CLIFF PRIOR is chief executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship. He chairs the government's mental health national service framework sub-group on long-term care.
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Managers summoned over Welsh waiting lists
Senior NHS managers have been summoned to meet Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones to 'discuss their contributions' to reducing lengthening waiting lists.
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Social policy 'must focus on inequalities'
The chair of the government's inquiry into inequalities in health has called for 'health inequality impact assessments' to be applied to all areas of social policy.
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Managers call for power
Government drives to improve quality in the NHS could give managers responsibility for clinical performance without giving them power to change clinical practice, says the Institute of Health Services Management.
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Agencies cash-in on working time limit
The NHS is facing a bill of at least 100m as employment agencies seek to exploit nursing shortages and the new European working time directive to drive up the costs of hiring agency staff.
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Widdecombe considers widening PFI to NHS clinical services
The private sector would manage NHS hospitals and clinical services through an expanded private finance initiative under policy proposals being considered by shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe as part of her review of Tory health policy.
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NHS Direct 'will need 15,000 more nurses'
The new deadline of December 2000 for extending NHS Direct, the government's nurse-led telephone helpline throughout England is 'challenging but feasible' according to one of the scheme's advisers.
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Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year.
Daily transcripts of the inquiry into the deaths of children during heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary will be published on a website when hearings begin next year. The site, launched this week, will initially include details of the inquiry's terms of reference and the opening speech by inquiry chair ...
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CMO launches flu jab campaign
Professor Liam Donaldson, England's new chief medical officer, this week launched a national campaign to make clinicians and the public aware of the importance of flu vaccinations.
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The NHS Executive
The NHS Executive has pulled back from compelling health authorities and trusts to sign a public assurance that all their clinical and non- clinical risks are assessed and properly managed by the year 2000.
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Milburn finds 9m for PCG recruitment
Primary care groups have won a 9.1m cash boost to recruit board members and staff before they start running in April next year.