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Fresh negotiations due on consultants' contracts
Consultants' leaders are to meet health secretary Alan Milburn on Tuesday in an attempt to kick-start negotiations on the new consultant contract. Talks stalled last month, with the British Medical Association claiming NHS Executive negotiators had failed to produce concrete proposals for the new contract, which is meant to come ...
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Confed makes plea on dental strategy
The government needs to look at more imaginative ways of using NHS dentists and dental assistants if it is to fulfil its pledge for everyone to have access to NHS dental treatment by September, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Join the club
Doctors agree that the GMC's old-boy network image must go. But they are arguing about how to achieve this, as Mark Gould explains
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Chief executives and project will tackle staffing
Trust chief executives across London have agreed to organise agency staffing jointly through the London Agency Project. The project, based at London regional office, has invited staffing agencies to bid for London-wide contracts to provide nurses and other staff, initially in accident and emergency, critical care and operating theatres. The ...
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List row chair quits in wake of chief executive
The chair of a trust which lost its chief executive following an inquiry into 'waiting-list irregularities' has followed suit with his own resignation.
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Scots long-term care group to examine crossovers
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has revealed that the group looking into implementing free care for elderly people in Scotland will examine 'the inter-relationships with UK matters, notably the tax and social security benefits system and cross-border movement'. There has been some talk of introducing a residency qualification for people ...
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LGOs, unions and charities call for clarity on care trusts
Local government organisations, unions and charities have made a united call on health secretary Alan Milburn to clarify how care trusts will be governed.
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Nurse 'bullied by staff ' stole weight-loss drugs
A Cumbrian nurse who stole prescription drugs from her hospital because she believed they would help her lose weight has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence. Staff nurse Ruth Stewart pleaded guilty to stealing 11 Eltroxin 50 thyroid tablets from Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary. Her lawyer said Ms Stewart had ...
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In brief
Health minister John Denham has announced the fifth wave of topics to be considered for referral to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. The eight treatments to be appraised include 'clot-busting'drugs for heart attack victims, which could help meet targets in the national service framework for coronary heart disease to ...
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Borderline case
The long-awaited Welsh answer to England's NHS plan calls for a complete reorganisation - beginning with the abolition of health authorities. Tash Shifrin reports
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Bodies in chapel probe suggests chief executive was scapegoat
The final report into the bodies in the chapel at Bedford Hospital has increased speculation that the standing down of chief executive Ken Williams was a 'disproportionate' response prompted by the need for a scapegoat.
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Bill 'should increase openness'
Local government scrutiny of the NHS is set to bring more health service information into the public domain, MPs heard last week.
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Salary-rise average at odds with cappingcall
Trust chief executives saw basic salaries rise by an average of 6 per cent last year to £78,000-a-year despite calls by health secretary Alan Milburn for a 3. 2 per cent cap on management pay.
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Pioneering authority rapped for 'failing'to deliver social services
One of the first local councils to have been given unitary status has been slated by the Audit Commission and social services inspectorate for the way it provides social care - and its poor links with the NHS.
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Wales to scrap HAs as Assembly gears up for control over health
Health authorities are to be swept away in Wales in a controversial measure that overshadowed the launch of the Welsh NHS plan last week and saw Unison predicting 400 job losses within two years.
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Nursing ambitions for building a new future
Any refugee applicant who wants to register with the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is treated the same way as any other overseas applicant, explains spokesman John Knape.