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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.
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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 ...