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Body of evidence
The media frenzy over the 'corpses in the chapel' led to the resignation of the trust chief executive. But mortuary facility crises are not confined to Bedford. Ann McGauran reports
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CHCs' successor bodies 'set to cost five times as much to run'
The successor bodies to community health councils - to be abolished in the Health and Social Care Bill - will cost nearly five times as much to run, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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MP bids for commission to regulate private dentistry
A private members'bill to bring private dentistry into line with other private health services and ensure it is regulated by the Care Standards Commission has been introduced to the Commons by Ann Clwyd.The Private Dental Practitioners'Bill is supported by the Consumers'Association, which has lobbied the government to extend the new ...
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Bedtime stories: 'I hadn't realised how important communications are for patients'
Frank Arnold, managing director of Unicorn Hospital Communications, knows better than most the frustration of not being able to phone his relatives from a hospital bed.
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Ignore those baying for the blood of a scapegoat
The errors at Bedford were not the responsibility of a single individual
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Eye off the ball?
Free training, free valuation and free materials failed to persuade GPs to show interest in a mental health selfcare package. Ann Richards and colleagues tried to explain the apathy
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In brief: Alzheimer's disease
Three drugs for treating Alzheimer's disease - Aricept, Exelon and Reminyl - have been approved for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. But patients have to meet a number of strict criteria, including having been assessed by a specialist clinic as having a moderate or ...
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'Bedford is not alone'
Could pathology, including mortuary services, now be a 'Cinderella'area suffering as chief executives are forced to concentrate on the waiting-list initiative?
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When a general election looms, the easy targets are almost unmissable
The past few days have once again revealed an unattractive side of politics which would offend voters more if the failing wasn't widely shared by the electorate. It is that willingness to whip up public feeling against easy targets while keeping heads safely down where There is even short-term risk.
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Leading PR firm loses Alder Hey contract just before organ report
A leading public relations agency for the NHS has lost a contract for Alder Hey Hospital just ahead of publication of the findings of the inquiry into organ retention.
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New TUC institute aims to boost industrial relations
The TUC this week launched a new consultancy to help public sector and private organisations improve industrial relations and develop partnership working between unions, employers and staff.The TUC Partnership Institute, headed by director Sarah Perman, is already working with five organisations on pilot projects involving unions and employers, including University ...
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As 'dirty hospitals' clean up their act, ward sisters acquire powers over sub-standard companies
Follow-up visits to 50 'dirty hospital' trusts which failed inspection standards last autumn have revealed that 41 of them have moved from 'red' to 'amber' status.
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DoH in £60m staff scheme to think about the future
The Department of Health is to roll out a £60m scheme to give NHS staff 'protected time' to plan their part in the modernisation agenda.
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Over 100 labs 'h had mortuary problems'
The hospital at the centre of the bodies-in-the-chapel row will this week lose its accreditation for histopathology - including mortuary and post-mortem facilities.
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IT strategy speeds up roll-out
The government's push towards making the NHS more like a 'corporate' body has been strengthened by the revised IT strategy for the health service issued on Monday.
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Putting the records straight
'In the absence of an adequate system to record and monitor the numbers and circumstances of deaths, the detection of Shipman's high numbers of deaths was dependent on the chance of observations of individual practitioners or medical referees. . . they [medical referees] only have their own memories to help ...
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Without prejudice
What do managers want from nurses and vice versa? Chief executive Alan Randall and nursing adviser Eileen Shepherd give some pointers
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Sian Griffiths OBE Job: Director of public health, Oxfordshire health authority; president elect, Royal College of Physicians' faculty of public health medicine.