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In Brief: Healthcare Financial Management Association
An extraordinary general meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association has agreed rule changes that will allow it to recruit a broader membership.
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Nurses jeer as Dobson says sorry for staged pay award
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week apologised for staging the nurses' pay award, but faced boos and jeers from angry delegates at the Royal College of Nursing congress.
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Partnership is key to Scottish HR strategy
A partnership between government, managers, unions and staff must be forged to sweep away outdated attitudes and employment practices, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said last week.
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CHC to voice concerns over Lighthouse funding
Concerns about the way £1.7m of NHS funding for residential services was withdrawn from a leading centre for people with HIV and AIDS are to be raised with health secretary Frank Dobson.
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RCP warning on psychiatric unit crowding
Trusts are warned this week not to economise on inpatient psychiatric units by cramming too many patients into wards or by diluting the skill-mix of nursing staff.
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SCODA: make drugs action a corporate goal
A coalition of drugs services has called for action against drug abuse to become a 'corporate goal' for the NHS.
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Move over Oasis
People value health over the bad boys of pop. Cool Britannia has caught people's imagination and is welcomed for embracing the inherent creativeness and inventiveness of the British population, a report published this week by market research group Opinion Leader Research (OLR) says. But people are keen that the emphasis ...
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Ministers 'delayed food safety plans'
Measures to prevent food poisoning outbreaks of the sort which claimed 20 lives in Scotland in 1996 were held up for a year by infighting between ministers and their departments, a top public health expert has claimed.
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IHSM urges sanctions on quality
A call for sanctions to back up the government's new quality agenda was made this week after health secretary Frank Dobson launched an annual programme of national service frameworks.
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Actuaries call for national health indices
The government should introduce new 'national health indices' to measure progress in cutting health inequalities, the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries said last week.
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Measuring up
Dietician Marion Cliffe examining a kidney patient at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor. Ms Cliffe has won funding from the Wales Council of Research and Development for Health and Social Care to study the prevention of malnutrition in kidney patients. Studies show that up to 40 per cent of patients are ...
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GPs' leaders demand huge rise in medical students
GPs' leaders have urged the government to approve a massive increase in medical student numbers to help avert a 'crisis' in family doctor services.
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Hospitals Authority
Providing a modern ambulance service was a priority for the new Hospitals Authority, which took charge of the fleet of 64 ambulances in Northern Ireland in 1949. You can read all about it in a book on the history of the health services in the province, Curing & Caring by ...
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Baby deaths surgeon stands by 'switch' operation
The Bristol baby deaths inquiry last week heard a surgeon dismiss as 'hypothesis' claims that babies' lives could have been saved if he had learned better operating techniques earlier.
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In Brief: New Deal
The government will have to tackle the health problems facing many lone parents before it can help them back to work under the New Deal, a study suggests. It found that illness and disability among a 1991 sample of lone-parent families had doubled by 1995.
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In Brief: Work-related accidents
The Health and Safety Executive has issued guidance to employers on the reporting of work-related accidents and occupational ill health in hospitals, nursing homes and general practice. It said that figures suggest only 37 per cent of accidents affecting employees in health and social work were reported to HSE in ...
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In Brief: West Hertfordshire transport services
Four trusts say they have reached agreement on support services changes to free £1m for patient care in West Hertfordshire. Transport services and estates management will be provided by in-house teams while catering, cleaning and portering are set to go to Granada Healthcare.
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In Brief: Ivan Macky
Ivan Macky, a former doctor at Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, was jailed for three years last week after being convicted last month of three charges of indecently assaulting patients in the hospital's casualty department.
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In Brief: King's Fund
A three-year scheme to evaluate new ways of working in primary care was launched this week by the King's Fund and the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. It will look at developments in nine Primary Care Act pilot sites in England and Wales.
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In the frame of the law
Clinical governance will put chief executives in the firing line on medical issues. Pat Healy reports