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Nurse regulation plans will 'fail'on all counts
Government proposals for a new regulatory authority for the nursing profession would not only fail to enhance public protection and speed up professional conduct processes, 'but if enacted would achieve the opposite', the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has announced.In its response to the government's draft ...
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Minister moves swiftly to allay mental health groups' 'fears over social control
New health minister Jacqui Smith has offered hope to mental health groups concerned by the tenor of proposed law reforms by ruling out the use of preventive detention and promising to make sure compulsory powers are used with 'an emphasis on therapeutic intent'.
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CHI overhauls its review process to allay criticism
The Commission for Health Improvement is redesigning its clinical governance review process in a bid to get closer to the 'heart' of the hospital patient's experience.
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Fury follows Bogle's attack on government
British Medical Association chair Dr Ian Bogle's attack on the government at the organisation's conference last week reportedly left health secretary Alan Milburn livid, particularly as Dr Bogle is one of the signatories to the NHS plan.
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Strategic health authorities will intervene 'on big things'
conference focus : The new strategic health authorities will not be HAs at all, delegates were told.In fact, PCTs will take over the traditional HA function.
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Pulling back the screens
open space : The death rate for breast cancer has been falling for a decade, but nobody is clear why.Jo-Ann Mulligan and Anthony Harrison ask how the NHS and Whitehall can assess the value of healthcare in this field
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Behind closed doors
comment : Anxiety about traffic-lighting persists as day of reckoning approaches
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in brief
NHS waiting lists rose by 0.9 per cent during May 2001 and now stand at 1.03 million in total.The figures reveal the second consecutive monthly increase but the Department of Health has claimed the rise was due to the introduction of single-use instruments for tonsil and adenoid operations, and a ...
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Doctors get say in cancer cash
Clinicians are to be given the power to say how a multi-million pound investment should be spent to change Scottish cancer services, under plans launched by health minister Susan Deacon.
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High-speed transition to SHAs looks certain
The development of the new strategic health authorities is to be spelled out in an NHS Executive document this week, with discussions due to be held between the NHS, local government and members of the public before the end of the summer.
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Managers jump to defence of 'chaotic' PFI hospital
Trust managers this week defended the first private finance initiative hospital after it became a target for scathing criticism in a Sunday newspaper.
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HImPs are failing children, say charities
Health improvement programmes continue to show 'major weaknesses' in their treatment of children and young people's health, a report by children's charities including the Children's Society and NSPCC has found.