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What exactly is intermediate care?
Everyone thinks intermediate care is a wonderful idea.But progress is hampered by uncertainty about what it means.
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Health without a care
What constitutes health improvement? And with so many differing definitions, what chance has it got, ask Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam
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Local services 'must be responsible for bringing prison care up to scratch'
Local NHS mental health services should take the lead in ensuring that levels of care for prisoners match current good practice in the NHS, according to a report by the government's working group on prison nursing.
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A brighter future?
The Institute of Health Research at Lancaster University is seeking to tackle problems in rural health in a two-year research project. It aims to address the health needs of the farming community and their exclusion from health services - a result of farming and health service timetables clashing.
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In Brief
Microbiologists say they are winning the battle against hospital-acquired infections like Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).Dr Bob Masterton and colleagues from Western General Hospital in Edinburgh have discovered that levels of resistance to antibiotics have stopped rising for the first time in 10 years.
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Equal pay case to boost salaries for women managers in NHS
A ground-breaking equal pay case has forced the Department of Health to review the way salaries are determined for top women managers.
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No shame, no blame: what the report says
In its plea for openness, the inquiry lacks conviction.The report, published last Thursday, runs to 16 volumes.Despite advocating openness as 'the correct approach'it is characterised by a cautious tone and a reluctance to pinpoint blame.Indeed, the summary document, published alongside the report, shies away from any criticisms of individuals, 'which ...
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The big check-up
Regulating doctors Edited by David Gladstone Institute for the Study of Civil Society 73 pages £5
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Nightmare as beds in homes'disappear'
'It's a nightmare. It's the single most intractable issue that we have ever had to face. Staff are quite exhausted by it and we haven't even started the winter yet.'
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BBC grilling procures a Crisp but variant reply
If history isn't busy worrying about something more important, it may record that Alan Milburn was the first MP to congratulate Michael Martin, the new speaker, on his first day at work - having voted for him rather than for his Geordie neighbour, Dr David Clark, as Tony Blair probably ...
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NHS must identify barriers to ethnic jobs
NHS organisations must identify any barriers to employing staff from Asian and other ethnic communities to ensure that hospitals and other services reflect the community they serve, says health minister John Denham. Launching a package of measures to improve recruitment from ethnic groups, Mr Denham said that all NHS organisations ...
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Avoid HR: botulism's better
Recently a writing commission for a firm of publishers has been keeping me busy moonlighting.
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IoD attacks 'quangos and talking shops'
The Institute of Directors says the NHS Plan will result in more bureaucracy with 'more quangos, committees and other talking shops' in a new research paper Management, Mutuality and Risk: better ways to run the National Health Service.
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Mental health experts attack plans to detain without trial
The government is pushing ahead with controversial proposals to detain dangerous people with severe personality disorder without trial.
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Flight arrivals
The policy of 'dispersing' asylum seekers has strained local health services and highlighted the need for a healthcare strategy. Alison Moore reports
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Deacon gives Scottish blood transfusion service all-clear
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is refusing to consider compensation after a 12-month investigation cleared the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service of any blame for infecting haemophiliac patients with hepatitis C.