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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.
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Whose turn now?
Contested decisions Priority setting in the NHS By Chris Ham and Shirley McIver King's Fund 85 pages £10.99
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monitor
It is hardly surprising that over the years Monitor has grown a pretty thick skin. It is essential protection when every waking hour brings accusations that this column is penned by a cynical has-been with no appreciation of the all-pervading shiny benefits that modernisation is bringing to our beauteous NHS.
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Rampton nurses may strike over new shift patterns
Nurses at Rampton Special Hospital have withdrawn goodwill and are to ballot on industrial action over new shift patterns which managers say would improve patient care.Around 700 members of the Prison Officers'Association are protesting at the change from working three 12.5-hour shifts a week to five shifts of 7.5 hours. ...
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Ruling will increase GMC workload
The General Medical Council, already beset by a large increase in complaints, lost a judicial review just before Christmas which will mean an even bigger workload in future.