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MPs' group to push for improved maternity services
Julia Drown MP has launched the all-party parliamentary maternity group, set up to campaign for improvements in maternity services. The group, launched last week with the backing of Royal College of Midwives general secretary Karlene Davis, will be pressing the government to set national standards in maternity services to ensure ...
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NICE fertility guidance leaves HAs struggling
Health authorities must be allowed sufficient time to implement new guidance on fertility treatment from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to ensure they can meet the financial and resource implications, according to NHS managers.
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Green with envy?
It is already possible to predict where health authorities will be ranked in the government's new traffic-light system. But is it fair, ask Chris Deeming and John Appleby
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Question time: search engine needed
Virtual visitors get one genuinely new service - a look at the truth behind recent medical stories, provided by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in York.
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Days like this
All but 10 of the 66 applications for the first-wave of trusts have been approved, although consultants Coopers and Lybrand, which appraised all the applications, say only 14 are financially watertight.
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Security crackdown planned for special hospitals
Patients are to be banned from receiving food or tobacco sent from outside Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton special hospitals as part of a security and safety crackdown announced last week by health minster John Hutton. He also announced that patients are to be routinely tested for illicit substances and there ...
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Pilot study tests limits of co-operation
The potential - and limit - of emergency service co-operation is being looked at in a series of pilot projects, including one in Wiltshire.
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PCGs 'must go complementary'
All primary care groups should provide complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a report by the House of Lords select committee on science and technology.
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Elderly 'too scared to complain'
Older people are frightened to complain about NHS services for fear of reprisals, and those who do are unlikely to get a response for months if not years, according to a new report from Age Concern.
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Patients' negligence claims meet with failure
Negligence claims by patients go on unabated, but as two recent cases demonstrate, they can be fought successfully where it can be shown that there is insufficient evidence that the injuries were caused by negligence.
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Century and not out
Victorian pioneers of community care are getting the recognition they deserve. Barbara Millar reports
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Test case may clarify UKCC 'judge and jury' concern
Fears that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by acting as judge and jury in misconduct cases could be clarified in a test case which started last week. The Royal College of Nursing, with the support of the ...
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'Fat czar' brought in to tackle overweight Scots
A government weight-watcher is to be appointed after a survey of health in Scotland showed around three-quarters of Scots were overweight.