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New bursary scheme announced
The Department for Health has announced changes to the September 2007 NHS bursary scheme.Rent will become a deductible expense for all student nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and medical and dental students, when calculating their childcare allowances.The changes have been agreed with unions, and they include an increase in the ...
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A&E doctors struggling to cope, says report
A report by the British Medical Association says NHS debt is taking its toll on accident and emergency departments in England.Despite efforts from staff to tackle A&E waiting times, a survey conducted by the BMA and the British Association for Emergency Medicine suggests departments are struggling to sustain the four-hour ...
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Not enough mental health facilities for young people
Young people with mental health problems are still being treated inappropriately on adult wards because of a lack of inpatient facilities for under-18s.A report by the Children's Commissioner for England says that despite significant investment in child and adolescent mental health services, services are often unable to respond to emergencies.Children ...
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Nursing code gets overhaul
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is reviewing its rulebook for UK nurses and midwives. The Code of Conduct is to be made clearer and updated to reflect today's healthcare needs.The draft code was agreed in December and the NMC will be holding a series of focus groups and seminars around ...
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Report calls for more support for employing disabled people
Employers should be trained in the support available in employing a disabled person, according to the Public Accounts Committee.A report on the Department for Work and Pension's support for disabled people says more flexible employment advice should be given to disabled people, that current service provision is patchy and that ...
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Commission appoints new head of independent healthcare
The Healthcare Commission has appointed Jon Billings as head of independent healthcare.Mr Billing has been acting in the post since March 2006 and was previously in charge of the Commission's London and South East Region operations team.He takes the role as the commission moves to inspecting fewer independent healthcare sites ...
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Guidelines aim to tackle medicine supply problems
The government and the pharmaceutical industry have joined forces to beat medicine supply problems in England.The Department of Health, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Generic Manufacturers Association have produced guidelines to ensure unavoidable shortages are handled more collaboratively in the future.Read the guidelines here
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NHS should treat gambling addiction
The British Medical Association has called for gambling treatment to be made available on the NHS.In recommendations to help healthcare professionals deal with the growing problem of gambling addiction, it calls for gambling operators to pay at least £10m a year to fund research, prevention and intervention programmes.From September new ...
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Stephen Thornton on shared leadership
'Changing people's behaviour when they have been in the same job for years is one of the hardest things to do. Safer patient initiative teams now think less in terms of 'why won't he do that for me?' and more in terms of 'how can I get him to do ...
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Top eye hospital to open site in Dubai
One of Britain's top eye hospitals is to open a branch in Dubai to help pay off debts of around £13m.Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust is offering consultants attractive pay packages to tempt them into working at the new hospital which will be known as Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai.The hospital ...
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Trainee specialists doubt future of NHS
A British Medical Association survey shows that one in four specialist trainee doctors is worried about the impact on their training of government plans to treat more patients outside hospital.Research in the Postgraduate Medical Journalshows that many doctors are anxious about changes to their ...
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Dentistry services on the increase
The amount of dental services commissioned by the NHS is continuing to rise, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health.The figures also show that since the new dental contract was introduced last April, more services have been recommissioned than were lost in rejected contracts by dentists.Read the ...
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DoH publishes pharmacy contract review
The DoH has published its review of contractual arrangements in the retail pharmaceutical sector and the impact of reforms to the 'control of entry' system.The review found that the market has been opened up by the reforms and that twice as many pharmacies opened in 2005-06 than in any year ...
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Legal briefing: why mental health reforms will create a dual regulatory system
Service providers need to prepare for with changing mental health legislation
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US best practice on diabetes care
Knowledge gained from a Health Foundation fellowship trip to the US is being brought into play in Bolton
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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Health committee to investigate audiology
The Commons health committee has announced a short inquiry into audiology services in England.The committee says it is particularly interested in whether accurate data on waiting times for audiology services is available and why services appear to lag behind other specialties in terms of waiting times and access.It also wants ...
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Anti-smoking drug licensed in Scotland
The Scottish Medicines Consortium has licensed the drug Champix for people wanting to give up smoking.It is the first drug to be used to help smokers quit without the use of nicotine.Champix, the generic name of which is varenicline tartrate, provides relief from symptoms by sending a signal to nicotine ...
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Leicester chief to go private
Leicestershire Partnership trust chief executive Professor Maggie Cork is to leave the NHS after 20 years to join Four Seasons Health Care as managing director of its Huntercombe Group subsidiary specialised services division for conditions such as mental health and addictions, physical and neurodisabilities, brain injury rehabilitation and children's services.