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RCN believes staff crisis will result in big pay boost
Nurses and midwives' leaders are hoping for a significant pay rise for the professions to be announced next week, in the light of a report highlighting the crisis in NHS recruitment.
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Bash street kids slug it out for Citizen Windsor
One sentence leaped out of the Whitehall guidance note which accompanies the annual Queen's Speech programme. After dealing at length with the government's yobbashing proposals, the note seamlessly asserted:
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Whose view is it anyway?
'What's clear from consultation on the NHS plan is the need for robust mechanisms to ensure user involvement moves beyond the aspirational'
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More questions than answers
Analysing Health Policy Edited by Alison Hann Ashgate 206 pages £37.50
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Cash boost allows breast screening to be extended
The Department of Health has confirmed that an additional £8m is to be allocated to the breast cancer screening programme to allow screening to be extended from next year to cover women aged between 65 and 70 .The extension of the mammography service will allow screening of an additional 400,000 ...
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All white on the night: but not without risk
This winter's unprecedented rains and flooding inevitably raise questions about the consequences of climate change on health.
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Framework 'signals end of ageism'
The national service framework for elderly people, due to be published within weeks, will require the NHS to offer equal access to treatments and drugs regardless of age.
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Consultant at abuse scandal hospital in new probe
A consultant psychiatrist criticised for his 'passive' role in the Garlands Hospital patient abuse scandal in North Cumbria has been suspended from his management post.
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Great Scot! Trust abolition could put NHS out of kilter
Enormous upheaval will be watched carefully by English managers
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Scottish NHS plan will abolish trusts
Scotland's 28 hospital and primary care trusts are to be brought under health board control in a radical reorganisation at the heart of the Scottish health plan launched today. The move will end the purchaser-provider split in the Scottish NHS.
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Extra £1bn will help fund key NHS objectives
The English health service will have around £1bn of extra cash to implement the NHS plan next year, according to NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves.
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Stealing the show
Three-quarters of all new hospitals are built through PFI - so why is it that the public sector's payback costs are clouded in secrecy? John Mair battles for exposure
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Pressure is on
To overcome the shortage of physiotherapists, the UK is increasingly reliant on recruiting from overseas. But can it be done ethically? James Buchan reports
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Virtually perfect
The NHS could soon have an electronic library if a new pilot works out. But will it ever be 'one of the great libraries of the world', wonders Lyn Whitfield
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One in three people will develop cancer. One in four will die from it. But a year after its formation, the Cancer Services Collaborative seems to offer significant hope for faster and better patient care.