All News articles – Page 1965
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Joining forces
The promises of 'zero tolerance'have come to nothing, so is it time for an NHS police force to protect staff from attacks, asks Alison Moore
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Formulary won
An acute trust has worked with a PCG to produce a joint formulary in under a year. Facilitator Heather Walker outlines the project
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Reeves leaves funds and friends
NHS Executive's departing finance director triumphed over tough times
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House of unrepresentatives
Ethnic minorities, the young and those in traditional full-time employment have largely been excluded from lay membership of PCGs. David James and Maxine Willitts report
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Talking point
To combine his twin NHS roles of permanent secretary and chief executive, Nigel Crisp has to pull off a tricky balancing act. But he is determined to be accessible - and communicative - he tells Laura Donnelly in an exclusive interview
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Whistle stop tour
A worried manager voiced her concerns about Oxford Heart Centre a year ago. Some of those involved have left, but no-one has been fired. Laura Donnelly and Claire Laurent report
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WEB WATCH
'Fog everywhere.Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. . . Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by ...
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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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£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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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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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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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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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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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