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RCN outlines manifesto wish-list
The Royal College of Nursing has outlined its manifesto calling on the next government to provide funding for free long-term nursing care, tackle student nurse hardship and improve familyfriendly practices.
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monitor
Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.
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TB cases highest in 15 years, reveal PHLS figures
The number of tuberculosis cases is at its highest for more than 15 years, figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service show. Provisional data for 2000 show TB notifications in England and Wales have risen by 10. 6 per cent, to 6,797 over the past year, the highest since 1983. ...
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Union clinches £35. 6m payouts for injured members
Unison has won £35. 6m in compensation payouts for members injured at work in 2000, with substantial sums going to healthcare staff. The figures include £100,000 awarded to former Cardiff Royal Infirmary staff nurse Diane Chambers, who was forced to give up her job after developing severe eczema from using ...
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Conservatives and Lib Dems fail in attempt to thwart abolition of CHCs
The government's plan to abolish community health councils came under renewed fire from MPs this week.
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'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict
A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...
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After the gold rush
The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH
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Chief departs after confidential report
A confidential inquiry into allegations relating to waiting-list figures at South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust has led to the resignation of chief executive Andrew Riley, despite the fact that problems found were 'not serious' and no disciplinary action was planned.
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A sense of balance in the wake of Alder Hey report
Growing public distrust of medicine must be assuaged not encouraged
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Alder Hey legacy will be law on consent
Trusts which illegally retain organs may face criminal charges and fines following the report into Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
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All change: suspensions and resignations
Retired education adviser Angela Jones, formerly chair of Liverpool Cardiothoracic Centre trust, has been appointed as new chair of Alder Hey. She took up the post on Tuesday.
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Of mice and moose: a gut feeling over antibiotics out in the field
The bacteriology of moose, deer and bank voles is not a topic often mentioned in the pages of HSJ. When I tell you that a study from rural Finland reported in Nature (4 January) has shown that gut bacteria from the faeces of all three species are almost completely devoid ...
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Staff consulted before trust appoints new chief
One of the four Birmingham trusts which had been without a leader has appointed a new chief executive following a process of consultation with staff. University Hospital Birmingham trust has appointed Mark Britnell, the trust's director of operations, who had been acting chief executive since the departure of Dr Jonathan ...
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RCN's bid for healthcare assistants
The RCN's decision to open up its membership to healthcare assistants could see the biggest shake-up in the health trade-union movement in a decade. The controversial proposal was overwhelmingly carried by the annual general meeting in October. But it is strongly opposed by a minority.