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RCN to decide on healthcare assistant membership
The Royal College of Nursing was set to decide this week whether to admit healthcare assistants to membership. The groundbreaking vote was due at the union's annual general meeting in Cardiff yesterday. The move to ballot on widening the college's membership follows more than a decade of debate and a ...
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Tackling mental illness in Asian communities
As an Asian person who has experienced mental illness, I know how the stigma in the Asian communities often discourages people from seeking effective help.
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Troubleshooters find failings in critical areas at Bart's
A regional troubleshooting team called in to the crisis-hit Barts and the London trust has found failures of performance in 'critical areas'.
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CHCs angered by silence from the 'centre' over future for their staff
Community health council staff have voiced frustration over the lack of official information on their future once CHCs are scrapped in line with the NHS plan.
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Alternatives to readmission for elderly people
The article by Andy Levy and colleagues about medical readmissions ('We'll meet again', pages 30-31, 5 October) was a timely reminder that hospital-based problems may have whole-system solutions.
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Cancelled ops spark 'red alert'
A trust 'named and shamed' as failing to meet outpatient waiting targets was last week forced on to 'red alert' as it cancelled 40 elective operations.
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Three tipped for NHS Wales top job against background of 'low salary'
Three Welsh health service managers have been tipped as possible successors to former NHS Wales chief executive Peter Gregory.
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PFI protest strike on hold after Denham intervention
Strikers at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust voted for a 12-day stoppage after health minister John Denham said the government was 'working closely with Unison at a national level' to end the dispute. The 600 mainly ancillary workers voted last week for a sixth round of strike action against their ...
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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Lobby of Unison branches backs expelled activists
Two Unison activists launched their appeal against expulsion from the union last week. University College London Hospitals Unison branch secretary Candy Udwin and chair Dave Carr were supported by a lobby of members from 15 other branches at their appeal hearing. The UCLH Unison branch is one of the best ...
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Health care provision: Past, present and into the 21st century
By Audrey Leathard Nelson Thornes 351 pages £22.50 paperback
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Sunderland West PCT operational in April 2001
I refer to the advertisement for the post of chief executive of Sunderland West primary care trust (page 66, 14 September).
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One to watch
The trouble with public health annual reports is that no-one reads them. Will putting it on video get round the problem? Claire Laurent reports
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Ofsted revisited
Pilot reviews by the Commission for Health Improvement have shown the importance of healthcare managers, CHI director Peter Homa told delegates.
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Managers meet the management
The IHM, which represents NHS managers, lives in the shadow of the NHS Confederation. The media could never tell the difference: should they join forces? Tash Shifrin reports