All News articles – Page 1890
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Get them while they're young
NHS CAREERS: Meeting school pupils to promote careers in the NHS - and offering them work experience - can be satisfying for staff and may even reduce drop-out rates from healthcare courses. Sue Smith explains
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Farmers turn to NHS helpline
A helpline offering advice to farmers and those affected by the foot and mouth outbreak across Wales has seen an increase in calls from people who are suicidal.
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New medical schools target lower-income entrants
Two new medical schools are to be set up, based at Brighton and Sussex Universities and Hull and York Universities. In all 1,033 additional medical school places are being created in England, with emphasis on recruiting students from middle and lower-income families.There will also be greater emphasis on interprofessional training ...
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Milburn puts his name to proposal for 'an end to outpatient' services
The NHS Confederation is pushing for a radical restructuring of the way health services are delivered in a move that would see an 'end to outpatients'.
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Window dressing
Can you pack 60 or more rambling proposals into eight neat themes? Ann McGauran heard Professor David Hunter do just that at the UK Public Health Association conference - but not all present were convinced
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Delays loom for mental health monitoring
Just one in 10 local groups charged with implementing mental health policy believe effective systems to monitor clinical governance are in place.
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Defining moments
The government's definitions of intermediate care ignore the role of housing and lack credibility as a result, argues John Belcher
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Days like this HSJ
Joint purchasing pilots. . . new staff grades plan. . . health unions closer to merger. . .hospitals face autumn rein-in. . . £16m services to contract out
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Key moderniser must cry freedom for public sector
Head of Modernisation Agency plans to give leaders a chance to shine
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It is the final countdown
Did the annual embarrassment of casualty watch encourage ministers to abolish CHCs? We may never know, but Tash Shifrin assesses their last snapshot survey of A&E waiting times
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Confederations take charge of developing future workforce
Twenty-four new bodies become operational this week which will, for the first time, oversee the workforce and training issues of NHS staff.
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Pressure on Scotland to stay in line over elderly care
Pressure is mounting for Scotland not to implement the findings of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care for the Elderly, says the report's author, Sir Stewart Sutherland.Giving the Royal College of Nursing Scotland inaugural annual lecture, he warned that 'the pressure to reject full implementation is growing as those who ...
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Umbrella cancer research institute launched
The Department of Health has unveiled a new organisation to co-ordinate all the UK's cancer research.The National Cancer Research Institute will co-ordinate funding and information on research, including clinical trials and genetics. It will bring together government departments, the Medical Research Council, cancer research charities and the pharmaceutical industry.Health secretary ...
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Publication of Bristol inquiry report juggles with election date
The Bristol inquiry is to pass its final report to health secretary Alan Milburn next month.
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in brief
The number of GP personal medical services pilot schemes going live from the beginning of the month was 967, down from 1,230 schemes approved last December and representing more than a 20 per cent drop-out rate.Final contract negotiations are continuing with some schemes, while an additional 61 have delayed starting ...
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Think-tank calls for hefty bonuses to keep leaders
The public sector must do much more to attract high-calibre leaders and consider paying hefty bonuses to the best-performing managers, according to the Cabinet Office's performance and innovation unit.