All News articles – Page 1962
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NHS policy on elderly to break new ground
The new NHS national director of older people's services began work this week, chairing the first meeting of the government's taskforce on older people.
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Bottling out?
'Difficult' questions are being asked about the sincerity of the government's oft-quoted commitment to tackling the growing problem of alcohol misuse. Paul Stephenson reports
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South East pay boost 'could divide nurses'
The government's announcement of extra payments for nurses in London and South East England has been criticised as 'divisive' amid rumours that it could result in a lower pay award for nurses nationally.
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NICE 'not examining other benefits'of beta interferon
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been accused of failing to consider properly the wider cost-benefits to society of the multiple sclerosis drug, beta interferon.
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McKay appointment strengthens NHS Executive and regional offices
NHS deputy chief executive Neil McKay has been appointed chief operating officer for the health service in a move designed to strengthen NHS Executive headquarters at Quarry House in Leeds.
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Milburn targets deprived areas in three-year funding allocations
Deprived areas are set to benefit from health secretary Alan Milburn's announcement of the first three-year funding allocations for health authorities.
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One for all and all for one?
The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.
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Red light alert
Failure to meet the NHS plan's performance targets will mean being classified as a 'red-light' organisation in need of special measures. This will have legal implications for both patients and trusts alike, writes Melanie Print
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HA rejects funding bias claim against PMS pilot
Allegations of political bias in funding for a personal medical service pilot run by a member of the NHS access taskforce have been dismissed as unfair by Salford and Trafford health authority.
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After the mediation: what they said
The claimant: 'I couldn't have done it without [my wife]. Because of her support and because she was part of it. She lived through it with me all the time and she went through hell as well, a kind of psychological hell. She was part of the battle.'
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Bringing on the support act
Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals By Neil Bateman Jessica Kingsley 192 pages £15.95
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Seven days free access to the HSJ website archive
The HSJ website archive is being thrown open to anyone who wants to use it this week. The archive contains more than 4,000 documents, including 1,000 full-text news stories added this year alone, and offers access to everything that has ever appeared on the site. Although use of the searchable ...
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£5.2m private grant for asthma medicine research
Glasgow School of Respiratory Science is to receive a £5.2m grant from Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyorin to develop existing research into creating a range of asthma medicines. The National Asthma Campaign for Scotland has welcomed the investment as Scotland has seen a 50 per cent increase in asthma cases over ...
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Housing gets £44m from health budget
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has come under attack after it was discovered that she has agreed to transfer £44m from the health budget to help cut Glasgow city council's £1bn housing debt.
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150 million prescriptions 'await processing'
Shortages of generic drugs have produced 'a crisis' in prescription processing, the chief executive of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority has said.
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TRUST OF THE YEAR
Winner: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital trust Runners-up: Sandwell Healthcare trust; East Gloucestershire trust
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Stocking's tops
The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports