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Nipped in the bid
Healthy-living centres were supposed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities, but so far only 65 of more than 1,000 bids for funding have been approved. What is going wrong, asks Lesley Mountford
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Bristol report triggers tussle over blame for clinical failures
Key figures who played a management and supervisory role in paediatric care at Bristol Royal Infirmary were bracing themselves for a damning report as HSJ went to press.
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Crisp's DoH blueprint for the future sees major shift in responsibilities
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has unveiled his blueprint for the future shape of the Department of Health, with 'a smaller group of key priorities' and a single top team across health and social care.
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In Brief
Investigators trawling through records at Hammersmith Hospitals trust's breast-screening service have recruited health authorities to track down patients who have still not been contacted about their results.An inquiry was launched earlier this year following an external audit of over 100,000 files where at least 11 recall errors were uncovered.A Commission ...
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news focus: Bristol
Much of the evidence to the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry makes harrowing reading.Perhaps hardest to bear are the accounts from parents reliving the experiences - in public - surrounding the loss of their child.The next few weeks will bring them back under the public gaze.The three-year inquiry builds on the ...
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Ooo la la! French leave for Brits who tire of the wait
One of my recent pleasures during the working day has been the sight and sound of the Daily Mail, and, more recently, the Conservative leadership candidates, urging that we should all become more European.
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RCN calls for involvement in deciding PPP role
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Beverley Malone has called for the union to be 'at the table when decisions are made'on the role of the private sector in public services.But while other union leaders have been in Downing Street talks on public-private partnerships, Dr Malone has admitted that the ...
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Trust failed to check up on locums
The Commission for Health Improvement has criticised a hospital trust, accusing it of not conducting checks on locum doctors.
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Clampdown demanded on enforced treatment
Mental health campaigners are calling on the government to take action against the rising numbers of patients being subjected to enforced treatment.The Mental Health Alliance has drawn up a charter, Care Before Compulsion, to influence future reforms of the Mental Health Act. In 1995,10 per cent of admissions to psychiatric ...
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Personal data complaints on the rise and showing no sign of slowdown
Complaints about how NHS bodies handle data have tripled in the last year and are likely to keep on rising.
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Consultant and nurse vacancies remain stable
Vacancies for consultants and nurses in England have changed little over the last 12 months.The three-month vacancy rate for consultants was 3 per cent in March - a rise of 0.2 per cent on the previous year.And vacancies for qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors fell by 0.5 per cent, ...
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From our own correspondents
A health service on the road to modernisation? That wasn't the experience of HSJ's Maura Thompson (left) or Lesley Hallett (below)
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Days like this
Confusion over pace of change. . .Nichol rules out havoc. . .Reform petition fears. . .Fundholder queue-jumping. . .'village idiot'gaffe