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Turning up the heat
Proposals from an expert group on critical care are already looking ahead to the service demands of next winter. And there's money available, too. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Sexual health and HIV plans to merge
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the long-delayed national HIV/AIDS strategy will be merged with the government's sexual health strategy.
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NHS workforce planning: the future
A Health Service of All the Talents proposes the following structure:
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The new funds
The government is to increase funding for the treatment and care of people with HIV and AIDS by more than 13 per cent.
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Nuffield Trust wants framework for genetic issues
Concerns that the revolution in medical genetics will be too costly for the NHS have been voiced in a report from the Nuffield Trust that also calls for a new regulatory framework for dealing with genetic technology issues and public education. Report co-author Dr Ron Zimmern said human genetics would ...
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Researcher says DoH figures are 'misleading'
Department of Health waiting lists are 'unrepresentative, invalid and misleading', a health services researcher has claimed. Dr Paul Armstrong, senior lecturer in health services research at East London University, has investigated figures showing the percentage of people treated within different lengths of time. He says the quoted percentages are based ...
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Harried, hounded - Gisela is left to her Owen devices
Iwas rung in advance to be tipped off that NHS waiting-list totals had finally fallen to 100,000 below the level inherited from the Tories and (like last week's HSJ editorial) was amused to notice what little media attention this long-awaited event generated. Nowadays, on-message folk think waiting times, not lists.
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The devil is in the detail
Workforce planning in the NHS has always lacked cohesion and been dominated by sectional interests. Now the government plans a complete overhaul, writes Jeremy Davies
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Dear Mel. . .
Our practice has gone completely paperless. When we tried to run our Grand National sweepstake using the computer, all the details got eaten by a virus. What should we do now?
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Days like this
Labour election pledges. . .Buy-out firm's new venture. . .Cervical screening crisis. . .Kitchens' rodent problem. . .PAC's financial warning
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Quick and easy but no cure-all
Clinical guidelines: from conception to use Edited by Martin Eccles and Jeremy Grimshaw Radcliffe Medical Press 120 pages £17.95
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Flu 'crisis' was media's winter wonderland
Last year's winter crisis was a media myth, according to a report from the NHS Executive.
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New inquiries to study contracts and public health
The Commons health select committee has announced two inquiries. The first is on consultants' contracts, focusing on 'the effectiveness of contracts in determining the amount of work conducted by consultants for the NHS and for the independent sector, and the impact this has on the NHS'. Submissions should reach the ...
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Finance chiefs are in the money
Finance directors are seeing their pay rise faster than human resources directors, according to figures from Pay and Workforce Research.
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Milburn cautious on inquiries into killings by the mentally ill
Health secretary Alan Milburn has indicated that the government may be reluctant to abandon automatic inquiries into killings by people with mental health problems.