All News articles – Page 1966
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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.
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Stocking to be head of agency
Director of South East regional office Barbara Stocking has been named director of the NHS Modernisation Agency.
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HSE moves in to stem violence against staff
The Health and Safety Executive has ordered a Scottish primary care trust to take immediate action to protect vulnerable staff from potentially violent and aggressive patients.
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Number of members struck off UKCC register increases again
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has reported a rise in the number of members being struck off.
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Cancer experts call for action on GMC's confidentiality rules
General Medical Council rules on patient confidentiality are threatening cancer research and monitoring of the national cancer plan.
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NHS ordered to act now amid fears over winter
The NHS has been ordered to speed up the expansion of intermediate care services, spend more on social services and buy capacity from the private sector amid fears that it is facing a winter crisis.
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Shame about the 'evidence'
Phillips report on BSE must give politicians of every hue pause for thought
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WEB WATCH
Poring over reports and attending hospital meetings doesn't sound like fun? You'd be surprised. . . Those are the words of trust nonexecutive Pauline Mistry. She goes on to explain how her role at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospitals trust involves 'sorting out the cock-ups' and 'disagreeing with some of the things ...