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Ill effects
Software for the NHS's new integrated payroll and human resources system is set to include a controversial 'scoring'system that some say drives staff to work when they are ill. Chris Gallagher reports
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Financial gaps in frameworks could knock NHS plan for six
Major financial gaps in agreements between trusts and health authorities across England threaten to hamper the delivery of services promised in the NHS plan.
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Here's looking at you, kid
The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan
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Hic hic hooray
The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports
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Suspended judgement
A nursing home designed with stakeholder input exposed patient advocates to the highs and lows of bringing a project to fruition, as Simon Jones and Paul Mercer report
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Who wants to know?
Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald
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Long and winding road
Refugee doctors could be a valuable resource for the NHS. But they face huge hurdles, including being charged for placements. Barbara Millar reports
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RCN outlines manifesto wish-list
The Royal College of Nursing has outlined its manifesto calling on the next government to provide funding for free long-term nursing care, tackle student nurse hardship and improve familyfriendly practices.
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monitor
Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.
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TB cases highest in 15 years, reveal PHLS figures
The number of tuberculosis cases is at its highest for more than 15 years, figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service show. Provisional data for 2000 show TB notifications in England and Wales have risen by 10. 6 per cent, to 6,797 over the past year, the highest since 1983. ...
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Union clinches £35. 6m payouts for injured members
Unison has won £35. 6m in compensation payouts for members injured at work in 2000, with substantial sums going to healthcare staff. The figures include £100,000 awarded to former Cardiff Royal Infirmary staff nurse Diane Chambers, who was forced to give up her job after developing severe eczema from using ...
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Conservatives and Lib Dems fail in attempt to thwart abolition of CHCs
The government's plan to abolish community health councils came under renewed fire from MPs this week.
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'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict
A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...