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Genome giant spells out vision of brave new world
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was dominated this year by matters genetic - no surprise, given that it came so soon after the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome.
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Milburn stands to gain as countryside goes to blazes
Did you happen to watch Sunday night's edition of Panorama, Vivian White's film about the state of A&E at St Peter's Hospital outside Chertsey in affluent Surrey? I mention it to contrast its tone with some of the weekend's other media reporting on the NHS as election day approaches.
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Blair-faced cheek
Do the Department of Health's political masters wield undue influence on the management of the NHS? Alison Moore dares to ask
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Scottish staff praised for response to bad weather
The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland has praised staff for their overwhelming response to winter pressures, saying that some even worked double and triple shifts during the recent bad weather.Trevor Jones said that while working such long hours was not 'encouraged', he was impressed with the commitment shown ...
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Losing the way with backseat drivers
Saving money on medicines The drugs budget handbook By Penny Blanch Radcliffe Medical Press 271 pages £19.95
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Blair's PFI 'commitment'is attacked by Unison
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis has launched a stinging attack on the government's 'senseless commitment to privatisation' in the NHS.
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BMA under attack from consultants
The Hospital Consultants' and Specialists' Association has attacked the British Medical Association over negotiations for a new consultants' contract, and suggested that hospital consultants could begin working to contract.
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Welsh Assembly launches nurse education plans
The Welsh Assembly has launched its strategy for education for nursing, midwifery and health visiting.Creating the Potential is the result of more than two years'work and involved interviews with 5,000 nurses, health visitors, midwives and members of the public. It is intended to set out how training and education should ...
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Think-tank argues for more flexible funding models
An NHS funded entirely through taxation is a 'quaint oddity', according to a report from the Adam Smith Institute.It argues that people should be able to pay the same NHS tax contributions into a number of social insurance funds of their own choice, which would buy in healthcare services for ...
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Major NHS plan areas at risk as HAs 'raid' heart and cancer cash
Some of the government's top priorities under the NHS plan could be in jeopardy because of the higher-than-expected costs of pay awards and National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance.
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Shrinking violets need not apply
Being a member of CHI's clinical governance review team is not for the faint-hearted. Ann McGauran reports
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Share alike
A rehabilitation unit for older people has flourished under the cross-fertilisation of ideas since responsibility for managing it was put in the hands of people from different professional backgrounds. Beth Powney and colleagues report
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Age discrimination pledge may reignite debate on rationing
The government's pledge to end age discrimination in NHS services will reignite the debate on rationing and could even prompt a 'backlash' as younger patients lose ground to elderly people, it has been claimed.
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A&E wait times 'can't be blamed on winter'
Waiting times in accident and emergency departments across the UK show 'significant pockets of very, very long waits' that cannot be blamed on winter pressures, according to figures from a snapshot survey.
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Medical students tell of pressure to act unethically
Nearly half of medical students have been put under pressure to behave unethically in a clinical situation, according to a study of final year students at Toronto University medical school in Canada.Sixty-one per cent had also witnessed a clinical teacher acting unethically.The categories of ethically problematic situations were: conflict between ...