All News articles – Page 1946
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Elderly 'too scared to complain'
Older people are frightened to complain about NHS services for fear of reprisals, and those who do are unlikely to get a response for months if not years, according to a new report from Age Concern.
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Patients' negligence claims meet with failure
Negligence claims by patients go on unabated, but as two recent cases demonstrate, they can be fought successfully where it can be shown that there is insufficient evidence that the injuries were caused by negligence.
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Century and not out
Victorian pioneers of community care are getting the recognition they deserve. Barbara Millar reports
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Test case may clarify UKCC 'judge and jury' concern
Fears that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by acting as judge and jury in misconduct cases could be clarified in a test case which started last week. The Royal College of Nursing, with the support of the ...
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'Fat czar' brought in to tackle overweight Scots
A government weight-watcher is to be appointed after a survey of health in Scotland showed around three-quarters of Scots were overweight.
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Have a NICE day in Nice - it's time for a winter break
Last week was a NICE week and a Nice week, whereas this week will mainly be a Nice week. All the evidence is that it will not be such a nice one on the NHS front, let alone the European one. But health secretary Alan Milburn has chosen to place ...
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Time to put the brakes on
Is the traffic-light system as unfair as the much-loathed efficiency index?
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Body politic?
NICE chair Professor Sir Michael Rawlins sharply rebutted claims that ministers had influenced its decisions.
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Trust board rejects PFI merger proposal
A controversial private finance initiative scheme has hit renewed trouble, with the board of one of the trusts involved rejecting a crucial merger plan.
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Tangled up in blue
Will the 999 emergency services seek closer co-operation or will the potential pitfalls put them off? Alison Moore reports
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Bleating up the wrong tree
Conventional wisdom and government policy assume that there is a 'shortage' of nurses in the NHS and the remedy for this malaise is that remuneration should be increased. Perhaps this conclusion is a nonsensical mixture of dubious logic and inadequate evidence and nurses are not underpaid.
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Rights article catches NHS on the hop
When the Human Rights Act came into force on 2 October, trusts braced themselves for test cases on a variety of fronts.
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Another fine mesh
A health secretary wrapped in the flag, vehement denials of ministerial interference and more data than the Pentagon - it was all at NICE's second annual conference.Paul Stephenson reports
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We're too old for sticking plaster - and amen to that
But is the new government realism simply pre-election posturing?
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Victim can't be forced to work alongside bully
Bullying claims are the latest growth area at employment tribunals. The bullied even have their own website, Bully OnLine, where they can keep up to date with legal developments.