All News articles – Page 1914
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Worries over patients' rights overshadow Milburn pledges
The government moved to position itself firmly on the side of patients this week, as a series of initiatives and ministerial speeches surrounded publication of the Alder Hey report.
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Trade union membership
RCN: covers registered nurses and students and has just agreed to extend its membership to HCAs and nurse cadets. Membership is 330,000;91 per cent of members are women and 7. 7 per cent are from an ethnic minority. Almost 40 per cent of full members are aged 3544 with a ...
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A pretty little sum
It is all very well for the government to set a 13-week target for outpatient appointments, says Rodney Jones. But the NHS cannot be complacent about the effect of randomness on waiting times
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Orthodox ginkgo study is the scrutiny herbal remedies need
If you're casting around for medical publishing's equivalent to the classic newspaper definition of a non-story ('Small earthquake in Peru, not many hurt') a recent paper in the BMJ (13 January) might seem to fit the bill.
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Yawning gap in perceptions as 'Giggles'Denham struts his stuff
It is funny noticing what really matters to people when the world is crashing down around them. I spent last Saturday at a Fabian Society conference, when Peter Mandelson's world lay in ruins and, rather more literally, so did a sizeable chunk of western India.
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The 'free-for-all' in freefall
Some deft re-wording was enough to save the day when Scotland's wrangling over personal care costs turned ugly. Lynn Eaton examines the new promises
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Doctors'organisations urge GMC to rethink reforms
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has joined the British Medical Association in urging the General Medical Council to rethink its reform plans. BMA chair Dr Ian Bogle said the GMC's proposals were 'bogged down in bureaucracy'. In a rival 11-point plan, the doctors'organisations are calling for GMC council membership ...
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Divided they'll fall
Health trade unions need to collaborate rather than compete for members. If they do not, says Andrew Cole, they will lose the ground they have gained under this government
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New powers are a 'symptom of paranoia', says exNHS deputy
A former deputy chief executive of the NHS has condemned sweeping new powers for the health secretary to remove and replace top health service managers as 'wholly unacceptable'.
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Days like this
Managers may have their performance partly measured against national health promotion targets, according to a Department of Health document.
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Relieving a painful learning curve
Pain Control An open learning programme for healthcare workers By Nan Stalker Radcliffe Medical Press 117 pages £17
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Scottish review urges compulsory treatment
A review of Scottish mental health legislation has echoed proposals south of the border by calling for compulsory treatment orders in the community and new systems to deal with mentally disordered offenders.
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Patients misled as poorly designed hospitals fail PEAT cleanliness tests
Reports from patient environment action teams may be misleading the public into believing hospitals are dirty when in fact they are just old or have poor signposting, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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The tides they are a changing
Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.
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There is the catch
Measures to improve relations between the NHS and the prison service are hampered by a suspicion that prison healthcare is not exactly a priority, writes Ann McGauran
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Closure of HIV unit as cases soar
An independent centre for HIV and AIDS care has announced a series of redundancies and closures in the same week that the Public Health Laboratory Service predicted that the number of new diagnoses looks set to rise again.
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Cancer screening: technology is there, but the money is not
Screening programmes usually focus on our nether parts: the colon and the prostate. We hear little about the lung. Mindful of progress in screening technology, Malcolm Dalrymple-Hay and Nigel Drury of Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre have used the January edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to ponder ...