All News articles – Page 1939
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Clinical governance failures let 'cruel' practices go unchecked
The first two investigations by the Commission for Health Improvement have identified failures in clinical governance systems which allowed 'cruel practices' to go unchecked.
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Tough but fair - CHI's first reports set tone for future
But local determination to reform is the only long-term solution to NHS ills
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Is Loyd hungry for a challenge?
We look forward to celeb chef coping with constraints of hospital catering
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Why disciplinary cases can flounder
A trust received a number of allegations that during the course of consultations a staff-grade doctor had questioned patients about intimate aspects of their sex lives.
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Oxford Radcliffe trust brings out 'limited' cardiac unit review
A long-awaited investigation into staff relations and services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's cardiac unit was due to publish its findings yesterday.
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Breast-screening programme detections increase
The NHS breast-screening programme detected 10 per cent more cancers over the past year compared to 1998-99, and now exceeds the performance of the original study on which the programme was based, according to its latest annual report. The report, out last week, shows that the detection rate is now ...
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NHS policy on elderly to break new ground
The new NHS national director of older people's services began work this week, chairing the first meeting of the government's taskforce on older people.
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Bottling out?
'Difficult' questions are being asked about the sincerity of the government's oft-quoted commitment to tackling the growing problem of alcohol misuse. Paul Stephenson reports
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South East pay boost 'could divide nurses'
The government's announcement of extra payments for nurses in London and South East England has been criticised as 'divisive' amid rumours that it could result in a lower pay award for nurses nationally.
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NICE 'not examining other benefits'of beta interferon
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been accused of failing to consider properly the wider cost-benefits to society of the multiple sclerosis drug, beta interferon.
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McKay appointment strengthens NHS Executive and regional offices
NHS deputy chief executive Neil McKay has been appointed chief operating officer for the health service in a move designed to strengthen NHS Executive headquarters at Quarry House in Leeds.
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Milburn targets deprived areas in three-year funding allocations
Deprived areas are set to benefit from health secretary Alan Milburn's announcement of the first three-year funding allocations for health authorities.
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One for all and all for one?
The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.
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Red light alert
Failure to meet the NHS plan's performance targets will mean being classified as a 'red-light' organisation in need of special measures. This will have legal implications for both patients and trusts alike, writes Melanie Print
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HA rejects funding bias claim against PMS pilot
Allegations of political bias in funding for a personal medical service pilot run by a member of the NHS access taskforce have been dismissed as unfair by Salford and Trafford health authority.
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After the mediation: what they said
The claimant: 'I couldn't have done it without [my wife]. Because of her support and because she was part of it. She lived through it with me all the time and she went through hell as well, a kind of psychological hell. She was part of the battle.'
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Bringing on the support act
Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals By Neil Bateman Jessica Kingsley 192 pages £15.95