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'A&E only' ultimatum to violent patients panned
Patients' groups say plans by acute hospitals in Glasgow to restrict violent and aggressive patients to emergency treatment only are unworkable.
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Keeping abreast
The NHS cancer plan gives the UK nine years to match the best breast cancer survival levels in Europe. As Wendy Moore reports, we could just do it
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MPs pessimistic on NHS's ability to combat hospital-acquired infections
The NHS will not have the information required to get a grip on hospital-acquired infection until 2005, according to the House of Commons public accounts committee.
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Fresh insights into type 2 diabetes
Type-2 diabetes used to be called non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus because, at least in the early stages of the disease, people do not require insulin treatment.
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£1bn boost for crumbling buildings
Plans for a £1bn boost for capital spending to tackle a 'legacy of under-investment' in NHS buildings were issued last week.
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Night porter shifts up with a £250,000 book deal
A hospital night porter who took 10 years to write a book during quiet shifts has just signed a £250,000 publishing deal.
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WEB WATCH
'Fog everywhere.Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. . . Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by ...
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Whistle stop tour
A worried manager voiced her concerns about Oxford Heart Centre a year ago. Some of those involved have left, but no-one has been fired. Laura Donnelly and Claire Laurent report
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Talking point
To combine his twin NHS roles of permanent secretary and chief executive, Nigel Crisp has to pull off a tricky balancing act. But he is determined to be accessible - and communicative - he tells Laura Donnelly in an exclusive interview
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House of unrepresentatives
Ethnic minorities, the young and those in traditional full-time employment have largely been excluded from lay membership of PCGs. David James and Maxine Willitts report
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Reeves leaves funds and friends
NHS Executive's departing finance director triumphed over tough times
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Formulary won
An acute trust has worked with a PCG to produce a joint formulary in under a year. Facilitator Heather Walker outlines the project
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Joining forces
The promises of 'zero tolerance'have come to nothing, so is it time for an NHS police force to protect staff from attacks, asks Alison Moore
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Reeves to quit NHS on a fiscal high note
NHS director of finance and performance management Colin Reeves is to leave the service after 16 years, seven of which were on its top board. His departure in spring 2001 will follow a shake-up of the NHS Executive's finance function.
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RCN fears UKCC could fall foul of human rights law
The Royal College of Nursing says it is concerned that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting may be acting in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights - which guarantees a right to a fair trial - because it acts as judge, jury and prosecutor ...