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Appeal to candidates for HIV/AIDS debate
The UK HIV Policy Forum, a UK umbrella group of 20 HIV organisations, has challenged the main political parties to address the growing urgency of the AIDS problem. In its manifesto, the organisation calls for guaranteed investment in HIV prevention and protection from discrimination for people with HIV/AIDS. Jonathan Grimshaw, ...
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Polls apart
Heckling was banned at the RCN's annual congress, whatever the provocation. Tash Shifrin heard the politicians vie for the profession's votes
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Beleaguered boss quits ambulance trust
David Todhunter, chief executive of Mersey Regional Ambulance trust, has resigned from his post, weeks after being sharply criticised in a report into the handling of an emergency helicopter transfer of patient Julie Donaldson in May 1999.
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Royal Free appeals against 'huts for nurses' ruling
The Royal Free Hospital trust has lodged an appeal against a ruling by Camden council that it cannot install temporary accommodation for overseas nurses in the grounds of the trust. Local residents in Hampstead, north London, objected to the hospital's plans to install prefabricated huts on disused tennis courts to ...
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GP wins redundancy claim after hospital closure
A GP who was employed by a trust to provide cover at a hospital elderly care ward has won an employment tribunal claim for redundancy payments after the sessions were ended due to the ward's closure. Dr John Campbell, who practises in Ashington, Northumberland, had been employed as a hospital ...
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Social services cash crisis will add to acute bed woes
The Registered Nursing Homes Association has written to the candidates of all the major political parties warning that shortfalls in social services finances will mean that many elderly people 'will get stuck in acute hospital beds for weeks on end because there are no nursing home places available to which ...
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Access systems fail on patient 'types'
Health service managers are failing to take account of how different people react to new ways of accessing health services, such as the Internet or NHS Direct, according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Funding is sticking point as private sector pushes for 'concordat 2'
Negotiations for a second concordat between the private sector and the NHS covering long-term care are underway, with funding mechanisms one of the core issues to be resolved.
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Days like this - HSJ 30 May 1991
Private healthcare set for boom. . . Managers believe reforms will not solve underfunding. . . Waiting list warning. . . Bed closures restrict training. . . Naming and shaming over hours
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The time, the place
BOOKS: Occupational Health Matters in General Practice ByRuth Chambers, Stephen Moore, Gordon Parker and Andy Slovak Radcliffe Medical Press 208 pages £18. 95
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Spaced out
NEWS FOCUS: The shortage of parking spaces at hospitals may not be the most controversial of subjects but it is an issue that arouses resentment and anger, according to Rebecca Evans and Laura Donnelly
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MONITOR
Monitor has entered purdah. Oh yes, while the politicians are mounting soapboxes (but enough about their personal lives) Monitor has vowed to keep shtoom and not to say anything at all which could tip the 'delicate political balance' which is the run-up to even more New Labour. So Monitor is ...