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Drinking-up time: how one hospital tackles alcohol-related attendances
At the top of every accident and emergency form at London's St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, is a checklist of 10 conditions most likely to be alcoholrelated. These include a fall, collapse, fits, head injury, assault, self-neglect, feeling unwell, non-specific gastro-intestinal complaints, psychiatric problems, cardiac problems and just being a ...
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The age of consent
How well-founded are fears that the Redfern report on Alder Hey will produce a raft of new procedures and regulations that will hamper vital clinical research? Thelma Agnew reports
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Admissions of difficulty
The history of law in general, and the Mental Health Act in particular, tells us a lot about changing attitudes towards society's most vulnerable.
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Nurses involved in Lakeland abuse scandal may have to face courts
Nurses involved in the abuse scandal at North Lakeland Healthcare trust in Cumbria could face prosecution.
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50 per cent cash help for trusts' in Alder Hey burial cost fallout
Trusts have been ordered to prepare a business case for financial help towards the burial or cremation of tens of thousands of organs retained without proper consent, in the fallout from the Alder Hey scandal. Only trusts which have 500 or more specimens will get help of up to 50 ...
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£50m hospital will kick off second wave of PFIs
A £50m hospital is to be built on the site of West Middlesex University Hospital, the first of the second wave of health service private finance initiative projects. A contract has been signed between the trust and the Bouygues Consortium for the rebuild, which is due to be completed in ...
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30 per cent generic drugs bill fall saves NHS £180m
The NHS's generic drugs bill fell dramatically last year, health minister John Denham has revealed in a parliamentary written answer. Most of the 30 per cent fall in prices paid by the health service came 'in anticipation of and in response to'the introduction of a government price cap on a ...
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Lucky break: 'I do not mind where I work. I have already come a long way - more than 9,000 miles'
A chance meeting in a public library in Ilford, Essex, resulted in Dr Abebe Diro Ejara, a refugee from Ethiopia, receiving the help he needed to pursue a medical career in the UK.
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Targeting the youth vote
The old adage about catching them young applies just as much to trade unions as to banks. In fact, since the average age of health workers is rising, the battle for younger members is intensifying.
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Turning the tables
Private companies are making nice profits from producing highly contentious hospital league tables. is not it time the NHS built up its own expertise in collating performance data? Laura Donnelly reports
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State of the union
Mr Naylor admits he 'has to be careful'about UCLH's past industrial relations problems.
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Routes to recovery
Integrated Care Pathways A practical approach to implementation Edited by Sue Middleton and Adrian Roberts Butterworth-Heinemann 155 pages £16. 99 paperback
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On short rations
As the roll-call of NICE-approved drugs gets longer, health authorities are under increasing pressure to juggle budgets. Jeremy Davies reports
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RCN selection process was 'undemocratic'
The Royal College of Nursing's decision to offer its general secretary post to US nursing leader and ex-Clinton aide Beverly Malone has fanned controversy about its 'undemocratic' selection process.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Stephen Thornton Job: Chief executive, NHS Confederation Style: Was asked to leave school because - young leader in the making - he stood firm and refused to shave off his beard. But recently modernised his chin in clean-shaven Milburn-like style. A keen Baptist - and (a mole tells us) ...
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in person
Jan Sobieraj has started as chief executive of Barnsley District Hospital trust after moving from his previous position of chief executive at South Lincolnshire Healthcare trust. He has replaced Sue James, who left to become director of the Trent Leadership Centre and head of development at Trent regional office.