All News articles – Page 1950
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Tayside chair is latest to quit in wake of damning report
Tayside health board chair Frances Havenga has become the latest senior manager to leave her post following a damning report into debt-laden Tayside University Hospitals trust.
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Warning over increased centralisation
King's Fund policy analyst Dr Jennifer Dixon told a fringe meeting that the national plan was likely to impose 'yet more central direction on the health service'. Managers and professionals needed 'time, space and trust' to develop new ideas. 'They need to focus on developing the services that people actually ...
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Langlands hints at extra cash for the elderly
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands hinted strongly that local authorities would win significant funds for care of elderly people in the comprehensive spending review, due later this month.
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Managers slam 'poor' care
Health service managers have slammed the quality of patient care in their own hospitals. More than 37 per cent of those who voted at the NHS Confederation conference said their own experience as patients was 'poor' or 'very poor'.
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Local government will 'resist' integrated care
Local authorities have warned they will 'resist' health secretary Alan Milburn's plans to give the NHS the power to run social services.
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UK cancer survival statistics are 'misleading and demoralising'
Media scare stories about poor UK cancer survival rates are a myth created by differences in collecting statistics between countries, Dr Harry Burns, Glasgow's director of public health, told delegates.
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Lib Dems call for change on medical injury
The government got a partial vote of approval from Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick Harvey, who told the NHS Confederation conference: 'I don't think they are going fast enough or making the progress they should.'
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Thoracic society hears call for 'tax on junk food'
Professor John Britton, a respiratory physician from Nottingham City Hospital, has called for children to be given free fruit at school to improve their lungs and general health at the summer meeting of the British Thoracic Society. He said the government should also consider levying a 'junk food tax' on ...
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HAZ programmes facing budget cuts
Funding for health action zones will rise by 37 per cent this year - but some local projects face budget cuts as the government directs cash at national priorities such as heart disease and cancer.
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Foster predicts one regulatory body
The plan could also see the emergence of a single professional regulatory body, confederation human resources policy director Andrew Foster told a conference seminar. He said a 'convergence' was likely, 'possibly to a single regulatory body, but certainly to a single process'.
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Patients set to take a third of seats on board overseeing national plan
The government was due yesterday to unveil its plans for an NHS modernisation board to oversee implementation of the national plan.
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Systems failures more to blame than people
May I correct one aspect of your news item on the recent King's Fund debate on the future of professional selfregulation (page 9, 15 June).
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A bit under the weather
It has been a terrible year for doctors, and they made their feelings all too clear at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting. Lyn Whitfield had her finger on the pulse
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Cottage industries look to the 'big house'
Michael Calnan and colleagues' article adds to our understanding about the interrelationship between key players in the small general practice organisation.
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Bid to rid non-executive role of sleaze
Public appointments commissioner Dame Rennie Fritchie is to launch a 'public appointments week' to raise awareness of the roles of people such as NHS non-executives.
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Thornton urges ministers to think beyond the national plan
NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton (right) warned the government of the 'danger of cynicism in the service' as it moves to life 'beyond the national plan'.
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BMA 'pushing at open door', says beleaguered GMC
The General Medical Council has responded to the British Medical Association's vote of no confidence in it by saying: 'The good news is the BMA's endorsement of the need for reform and their very strong support for revalidation.' But in a statement, the doctors' regulatory body admitted that the 'negative ...
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When being sensitive can leave you tongue-tied
I sympathise with Marianne Rigge (Consuming passions, 15 June); being politically correct in referring to people with health conditions is not easy.
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Genuine partnership must begin with staff
Unison was very pleased to see the recent joint issue on partnership working between health and local government (Patient: Citizen, 22 June).