All News articles – Page 1904
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Time to find out if NHS can get there from here
Comment - Difficult journey for staff in wake of Milburn's Damascene conversion
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Guidelines greenlight foot and mouth pyres
New health guidelines on the disposal of animal carcasses have been welcomed by the health authority which first raised concerns about risks to public safety during the current foot and mouth epidemic.
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Well There is an election on the way and NO mistake! Well, almost definitely, which is good enough for Monitor, who stumbled on the most revealing website the other day. Mrs Monitor was slightly shocked by some of its educational content, and quickly returned to her favourite 'URL' (oh, we ...
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Julie Wells, an independent consultant and former director at Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire health authorities, has been appointed European development manager for health in a collaboration between East and West Kent HAs and the European Institute of Social Services at Kent University.
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£1bn investment targets 'not achievable'
The government's £1bn investment plans for primary care premises are unworkable and cannot be achieved within the timescale set, according to a national survey of GPs and managers reported exclusively in HSJ.
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Alder Hey compensation claim could run to £15m
The Alder Hey organ retention scandal looks set to spark one of the biggest compensation claims in the history of the NHS. Parents of children whose organs were retained are seeking compensation payments from Alder Hey and Liverpool University which could cost the health service £15m. Around 500 parents have ...
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Trust fears a £4m shortfall in equipment funding
University Hospitals of Leicester trust is predicting a £4m shortfall in funding for medical equipment. Trust medical director Dr Allan Cole told a board meeting that the trust needed £8m 'just to stand still', but has only £4m to spend. 'The funding for emergency medical equipment has always been inadequate. ...
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Apex urges RCN staff to accept revised pay offer
Royal College of Nursing staff are being advised by their union Apex to accept a revised pay offer of 4. 8 per cent following a dispute over changes to their pay formula. Apex is recommending that the 700 staff agree to the uplift, though the existing pay formula would have ...
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Birmingham: 'Some people have never accessed NHS dentistry'
Birmingham doesn't have a problem with the total number of NHS dentists available, only with the locations of services.
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Medical secretaries act over pay grading
Medical secretaries across the NHS could resort to industrial action as anger deepens over their continuing grading dispute.
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PCGs confident of normal service despite calls for GPs to take action
Primary care organisations are not expecting any significant disruption to GP services next week or in the near future, despite calls for GPs to take action on 1 May and recent campaigning by the British Medical Association to cut GP workload.