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Panorama gives NHS plan a 'reality check'
In what the BBC has called a 'reality check', this Sunday's Panorama puts the NHS plan under the spotlight after two months of filming at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey.
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Hospital trusts warn of chaos as medical secretaries threaten strike
Two hospital trusts are warning of chaos in coming weeks because of the threat of industrial action by medical secretaries over pay.
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'Resign or be sacked' was 'choice' for chair
Health secretary Alan Milburn was told of the departure of the former chair of Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust earlier this month before she had submitted her resignation over breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee.
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Carnall knowledge
New South East region director Ruth Carnall is frank on coming to grips with 'serious performance issues', the size of her supposedly affluent and articulate patch, and the challenge of finding a clean pair of tights. So why do she and her London counterp
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Careless whispers
One benefit of the elective component of the management training schemes is the chance to see how different parts of the service interact during the same time period.
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Councils to have 'significant influence' in care trusts
An emerging framework document issued by the Department of Health says local councils will have 'significant influence' in the management of care trusts.'The aim is to ensure governance arrangements that genuinely reflect the shared responsibilities of the partners in the care trust, ' it says. Local Government Association head of ...
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ME charity claims primary care is failing sufferers
The NHS is failing people with ME, with two-thirds of people with the disease receiving no advice from their GP about managing their condition and 33 per cent having to wait more than 18 months for a diagnosis, according to the charity Action for ME. In a report which surveyed ...
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Quit call follows regional chair's 'manifesto' remark
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has called for the resignation of Sir William Wells, chair of South East regional office, accusing him of having his impartiality 'utterly compromised' by sending a letter to trust chairs urging them to meet 'our manifesto commitment'on waiting lists. Sir William's letter expresses concern ...
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Bring out your dead values
The media enjoyed a field day over the Alder Hey body parts scandal, competing to find the most heart-rending tale.
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Hutt blocks staff transfer to PFI
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has blocked a controversial move to transfer clinical staff to the private sector in a private finance initiative deal.
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Poor terms blamed for dental drift
Poor terms and conditions are compromising standards and driving NHS dentists into the private sector, claims the British Dental Association, which has just launched a seven-point policy on NHS and private care.
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Blair GP speech takes DoH by surprise
The details of incentive schemes to be negotiated between primary care groups and trusts and GP surgeries, announced by prime minister Tony Blair this week, have not been properly worked out, and the high-profile announcement took civil servants unawares, according to HSJ sources.
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Labour under pressure to concede on care bill
The government has been forced to make concessions as it struggles to push its Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament before calling a general election.
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Hard to believe UK nurse could not fill RCN job
The appointment of Dr Beverley Malone, a US citizen, to the post of general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing ('Stars and gripes', news focus, page 18, 15 March) is an indictment of the nursing profession in the UK.
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DoH flounders like beached whale when 'matron'model exists
I fail to understand why both the title and role cause such confusion. It is true that the NHS gave up the title years ago, but matrons have remained in voluntary hospices up to this present day.
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Joint-working averts crisis
This year's winter pressures were worse than last year but have been 'handled better' by the NHS, local councils and their partner organisations, according to a Department of Health report.
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Hammersmith audit reveals six more breast-screening errors
At least six errors have been uncovered during an investigation into the breast-screening unit at Hammersmith Hospital's trust, and chief executive John Cooper has sought advice from the Commission for Health Improvement.
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NICE to assess cancer and heart treatments next
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence's next work programme will consider of treatments for cancer and heart disease. Thrombolytic drugs for heart attacks, caelyx for ovarian cancer and STI-571 for chronic myeloid leukaemia will be appraised. Other treatments NICE will consider in the next wave will include surgical procedures for ...