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Divergent care funding leaves England lagging
MPs have challenged health secretary Alan Milburn over the government's refusal to fund free personal care for nursing home residents in England, leaving them worse off than their counterparts in Scotland.
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Handle with care
How the NHS treats its workforce is now seen as central to recruiting and retaining staff.The health service is on notice to deliver.Ann McGauran reports
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Care to talk?
A conversation with a nurse revealed the dire state of care for elderly patients on her ward.Jayne Lingard wonders why she feels she can do nothing about it
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Nurses call for huge extension of their powers to prescribe
Nurses have called for a huge extension of powers to prescribe a range of medicines - including controlled drugs.
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In brief: House of Lords
Last year the House of Lords held that parents cannot claim the costs of bringing up a healthy but 'unwanted' child, born as a result of medical negligence - for example, a botched sterilisation. But the court left open the question of what may be claimed when the child is ...
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In brief: Private healthcare
Private healthcare is the most buoyant industry in the UK for employment, with public sector healthcare at number two in the 19 key sectors surveyed, according to Manpower's quarterly survey of employment prospects.
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In brief: Medway Maritime Hospital
Medway Maritime Hospital has apologised following the death of a woman with Down's Syndrome who had to wait nine hours on a trolley in the accident and emergency department before being admitted to a proper hospital bed. A spokeswoman said Brenda Marshall's family had asked for her to remain on ...
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has written to all trusts reinforcing his message to the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency conference that they must not shy away from making 'difficult decisions' about employing purchasing staff. He said that having a single purchasing centre covering several organisations could be more cost-effective ...
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In brief: World Health Organisation
The World Health Organisation has launched a year-long campaign to tackle the stigma of mental illness. 'Stop exclusion - dare to care' hopes to draw worldwide attention to the failure of governments to provide adequate means of treatment and address discrimination.
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In brief: Unison
Unison's retired general secretary, Rodney Bickerstaffe, has left a green legacy - he has helped lead a campaign to plant 16,000 trees in a bid to counter global warming.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched the government's strategy for the future of dentistry, giving a commitment that, from September, anyone wanting to see an NHS dentist can do so by phoning NHS Direct.
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Chief had known 'for years' of bodies in the chapel
Bedford Hospital chief executive Ken Williams had known for several years about the practice of using the chapel of rest as a temporary mortuary, which caused outrage when photographs of seven bodies wrapped in sheets on the floor were published in the press.
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LGA steps up campaign for an equal voice on care trust boards
The Local Government Association is calling for membership of care trust boards to be based on a principle of equal representation for health and local government.
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Gold blend
Kathy Doran's mix of civil service and NHS experience should see her refining 'the art of the possible' in her new job as NHS director of primary care.Alison Moore reports
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Stiff warning to the minister as he runs into trouble with bill stickers
In their first week back at Westminster in 2001 MPs spent 10 hours of prime time discussing the NHS, mostly on the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill. Yet I doubt if any of their words, wise or foolish, will have the same impact as that shocking ...
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BMA fears bill could thwart even distribution of GPs
Clauses in the Health and Social Care Bill could lead to an uneven distribution of family doctors, warns the British Medical Association. Clause 17 abolishes the medical practices committee, which has always controlled the distribution of GPs in England and Wales. 'Abolition of the committee, devolving its functions to individual ...
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Conservatives attack latest DoH waiting-list claims
The number of patients waiting for an NHS operation fell by 3,600 during November, according to the Department of Health. The total number of patients waiting in England stood at 156,960 - 137,000 fewer than March 1997.
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HAs in deprived areas will lose extra millions in funding revamp
Health authorities in some of the most deprived areas in the country have expressed serious concerns that a new method of allocating inequalities payments has deprived them of millions of pounds of extra funding.