All News articles – Page 1962
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Executive risks creating 'cowboy town' warning
A senior union leader has claimed that the Scottish Executive is in danger of 'creating a cowboy town with the Scottish health service: all front and no back'.
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Remote control
The revamp of junior doctors' employment structure, putting more emphasis on training when consultant numbers have not been increased, has lost sight of service needs, say Robert Elkeles and Richard Thompson
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Consuming passions
Experience of a walk-in centre brought home to Jenny Rogers the disdain with which the NHS often treats its customers. She says something momentous has to happen - before it's too late
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Ledward case shows up disciplinary failings
The chief executive of the trust at the centre of the Rodney Ledward scandal has called for disciplinary processes against consultants to be 'streamlined'.
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Milburn signals health and social care merger
Health secretary Alan Milburn has signalled that next month's national plan will involve wholesale NHS reform, including moves to merge health and social care.
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Short Cuts: CHC calls on CHI to scrutinise pacemaker service
North and Mid Bedfordshire community health council has called for the Commission for Health Improvement to investigate the pacemaker service at Bedford Hospital. It believes it is the first CHC to demand a CHI investigation. An internal investigation published in May was extremely critical of the pacemaker service and its ...
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De Brun says fight for cash is her top priority
Bairbre de Brun, taking up her post as Northern Ireland's health minister for the second time, has said that getting more money for the health service is her top priority.
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NICE data briefing
Does NICE's remit lack scope? John Appleby assesses the evidence emerging from the assessments so far
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In Brief: Scottish school of primary care
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched the Scottish school of primary care in Edinburgh. The school is supported by the government, NHS and professional organisations and will promote research in primary care. After a foundation phase, the school will go live in January 2002.
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In Brief: University College London Hospitals trust
University College London Hospitals trust has announced that John Ashbourne, who was due to become its acting chief executive, has 'withdrawn for personal reasons'. Peter Reading has left the trust to become chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester trust. A new acting chief executive is now being sought.
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In Brief: British Heart Foundation report
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has welcomed a British Heart Foundation report warning many young people could be storing up health problems by failing to take part in any physical activity. She said the government was determined to tackle the problem through initiatives, including a sports strategy.
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In Brief: Young women in Lothian targeted
Young women in Lothian are being targeted in a postcard campaign to encourage participation in a study that aims to cut the abortion rate by providing advance supplies of the morning-after pill. The study by Edinburgh University's obstetrics and gynaecology department was started last September, but only 4,000 women have ...
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In Brief: Mavis Skeet has died
Mavis Skeet, the cancer patient who triggered a media storm about the state of the NHS last winter, has died. Mrs Skeet had her operation for throat cancer cancelled four times. Eventually, her condition became inoperable. Health secretary Alan Milburn promised an inquiry into her case, which has yet to ...
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A personnel best?
A computer system linking all the personnel information of NHS staff is on its way. But will this IT initiative deliver the goods where so many others have failed? Kaye McIntosh reports
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Short Cuts: Majority in survey believe UKCC is effective body
A survey has found support for the UK Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting, which is currently subject to review. The survey by Public Attitude Surveys found that 77 per cent of a sample of people on the UKCC's register thought it was an effective regulatory body, compared ...
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PFI shake-up leads to beds 'crisis' row
Clinicians and managers are at loggerheads over an alleged bed crisis at Hereford Hospita l.
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Doctors launch professional and personal attacks on GMC
Senior doctors launched an outspoken attack on the General Medical Council at the British Medical Association's consultants' conference last week.
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Short Cuts: New Assembly faces calls for ambulance funding
Pressure group London Health Emergency is lobbying the capital's new mayor and Assembly in a bid to attract 'massive investment' to London Ambulance Service trust by renewing claims that it is the 'worst-performing urban ambulance service in the country'. Trust acting chief executive Peter Bradley said it was reaching 41 ...