All News articles – Page 1957
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Days like this
A £2m contract with management consultants to prepare West Midlands regional supplies organisation for the internal market has come under fire from the district general managers of financially pressed health authorities. They have voiced concern at the money paid to United Research while hospitals are closing beds to make ends ...
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Crowd puller
It is not just social services that is strengthening its partnership with the NHS - there's education, housing, even 'cultural services'. Tash Shifrin follows the joined-up dots
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Too many cooks spoil the froth
Celebrity chefs are to beef up the hospital menu, but two-Mars-Bars-a-day man Mark Gould has his doubts
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Poor children not eating fruit
Figures out this week from the British Heart Foundation show that fewer than one in five children eats more than one piece of fruit a day. And just 14 per cent of children aged two to 15 years old eat more than one portion of vegetables a day - government ...
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CHC seeks probe into chair job
A community health council has called on the commissioner for public appointments to investigate the appointment of a trust chair after a major merger.
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NHS money eases Hackney cash woe
The NHS has bailed out crisisstricken Hackney council in East London, where a total spending freeze left elderly people 'stuck' in hospital without social services care packages.
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Highs and lows: the Crisp career to date
Nigel Crisp began his NHS career in 'what was then called a mental handicap unit' in East Berkshire. It provided one of the lowest points in his career. He suggests that one of his earliest decisions - to sack a charge nurse accused of ill-treating patients - was one of ...
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'Extend mental health plans' call
The national service framework for mental health should be extended to cover children and young people, says a children's mental health charity.
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GMC buys extra time in row over cancer registry privacy
The General Medical Council has moved to try to head off the potential collapse of the UK cancer registration programme.
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The mind Bogles as BMA chief vents his spleen
In the wake of the Cabinet's special session at Chequers I was struck by the fact that Alan Milburn was judged a safe enough pair of lungs to report to the broadcasters.
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Feeling a bit peaky
Why does the number of people waiting for outpatient appointments reach its height in September? The answer, says Rodney Jones, can be found in the mismatch between supply and demand
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Hospital put patients to bed in midafternoon
Patient groups have criticised a hospital where staff shortages were so severe that nurses say they were forced to put elderly patients to bed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
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Mortality data auditing in private hospitals 'bad and getting worse'
Private hospital mortality data is poor and getting worse, according to the latest report of the National Confidential Inquiry into Perioperative Deaths published this week.