All News articles – Page 1972
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Whistleblower grievances open to public
A new route has opened up for journalists keen to sniff out stories about what is going on in the nation's hospitals.
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Fast reactor
No-nonsense, straight-talking action man Mike Deegan has two months to solve the problem of how to improve the NHS. Lynn Eaton gets her stopwatch out
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Hospital keeps family scheme
A Scottish hospital is pressing ahead with plans to send patients with learning difficulties to live with staff despite allegations of misconduct and maltreatment of residents.
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Eye opener
One trust has streamlined its referral system for cataract operations - and reduced waiting times dramatically. Bill Stevenson and Pauline Neal report
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Ventilator trial inquiry finds 'significant' errors
The inquiry into a controversial ventilator trial at North Staffordshire Hospital trust, in which 28 premature babies died and 15 were left brain damaged, has found inadequacies at every level.
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Doubts over Virgin 'gimmick'
Health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to bring in consultants from Virgin Atlantic to advise the NHS on making hospitals more consumer friendly has been greeted with scepticism.
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Don't look now
Proposed reforms look unlikely to stamp out racism in mental health. And there are fears, reports Matt Weaver, that they could even make things worse
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Hello dolly
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett meets Klaudine Simpson during a visit to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield to open its clinical skills centres for training medical students. They are examining plastic learning models showing a foetus at different stages of development. The centre has a range of manikins and ...
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Liddell departs for Internet job
NHS director of planning Alasdair Liddell has resigned to join a new Internet company specialising in communications between government and business.
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Days like this
Closer working between clinicians and managers. . . purchaser provider split. . . Dorrell's promotion. . . community care reforms Guidance on consultants' contracts agreed between the Department of Health and the British Medical Association have been heralded as a breakthrough in closer working between clinicians and managers.
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Short Cuts: Equal pay victory for women speech therapists
Hundreds of NHS speech and language therapists will share £12m in back pay following the resolution of a 15-year 'equal pay' battle. The MSF union launched a claim in 1986 comparing the pay of 351 female speech and language therapists with professions dominated by men. The previous Conservative government fought ...