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A clinical governance audit tool, based on 20 key indicators, has been developed by SGS. The audit model can be used either to develop existing quality management systems or as a stand-alone 'gap analysis' tool. Based on the ISO 9000 framework, the model has been piloted in an NHS community ...
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Norman boost for RCN crown
Sue Norman, president of the UK Central Council for Nursing and Midwifery, has emerged as one of the favourites to replace Christine Hancock as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing when she stands down next summer.
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BMA launches guide on personal medical services
The British Medical Association's GP committee has produced a guide jointly with the NHS Alliance and National Association of Primary Care on personal medical services pilots that will be sent to all GPs. The guide will be issued with a letter warning GPs to 'weigh up the options carefully' before ...
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Scotland on course for a bleak winter
Scotland may be heading for another winter crisis as bed blocking has reached 10 per cent of total capacity in some areas.
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Technology to fit the bill
It costs the health service up to £65 to process just one invoice, but the electronic solutions in the pipeline will mean significant savings, says Seamus Ward
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RCN broadens membership in bid to modernise
Members of the Royal College of Nursing have voted to admit trained healthcare assistants and new types of nurse trainees, such as cadets, in a landmark vote. The move was supported by 78.1 per cent of members taking part in a month-long ballot and was unveiled at the RCN's annual ...
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Funding bid for telemedicine project for cancer care
A £300,000 bid is being made to the Scottish Executive's new opportunities fund for a telemedicine project aimed at driving up standards in cancer care in Fife, Tayside, Lothian, Borders and Dumfries and Galloway. The project, one of the most extensive of its kind in Britain, would give clinicians access ...
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East Sussex hit by rash of bed blocks
A shortfall in social services funding is causing severe bed blocking in East Sussex hospitals.
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The long and the short of it is an all-round cash crisis
Government pension policies are pushing more people into a poverty trap
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It's lift-off for walk-in at airport
Health minister John Denham has opened the first NHS walk-in centre to be developed through a public-private partnership.
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Philips wins airport x-ray deal
Philips Medical Systems has installed an integrated chest x-ray screening and reporting system throughout the four terminals at London's Heathrow airport to screen people arriving in the UK for diseases such as TB.
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Politicians can't swim against the silver tide
Soon elderly people will have so many votes that politicians will have to listen to them, the annual social services conference has been told. Tash Shifrin reports
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Heard the one about the knight, the prof and the rabbi?
The modernisation action board is diverse, if nothing else. Alison Moore reports on the chemistry and mechanics at its first meeting
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Decision to abolish CHCs will not get judicial review
The Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales has confirmed it is not going to proceed with a judicial review of the government's decision to abolish CHCs, following health secretary Alan Milburn's refusal to fund one. The association had received a QC's opinion suggesting it had 'good grounds' ...