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One in three physiotherapists comes from abroad
A report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has found that one in three physiotherapists entering the UK labour market comes from overseas, with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand the main sources. Most enter the UK for short periods and work in temporary positions in the NHS. CSP chief ...
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Taken short: the digital approach
The current shortage of nursing staff willing to take up an NHS contract has firmly shifted the balance of power away from trusts and towards the agencies, contributing to the rapid increase in agency costs since the mid-1990s. But one company claims it can reverse this trend.
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Would you like cash back?
Yes, please, says the BMA - about 14 per cent would do nicely. As the annual pay review tussle hots up, Laura Donnelly and Tash Shifrin find out who wants what, and how badly
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News in brief: Bairbre de Brun
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has indicated support for co-operation with health services in the Irish Republic. In a speech to a British Medical Association conference, she said there was 'most' scope for joint work on ambulance services, emergency pressures, waiting lists and transferring patients who needed specialised ...
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On best behaviour
The full force of the Human Rights Act is about to hit health service employers with a sledgehammer. Colin Wright reports
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Blair spells out NHS promises
Prime minister Tony Blair used his speech at the Labour Party conference to hammer home the government's plans for the NHS, should it win a second term.
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High blood pressure causes most strokes in UK
An organisation has been launched to draw attention to the issue of high blood pressure, which affects 10 million people in the UK, is the most important cause of strokes and is one of three key factors in heart attacks. The Blood Pressure Association says almost half of all individuals ...
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Lay group formed to lobby for PCT board changes
A National Association of Lay People in Primary Care has been launched to lobby for changes in the board structure of primary care trusts. Nicholas Reeves, the association's founder and a lay member of Acton and Ealing primary care group in London, said there was a danger that the 'expertise' ...
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News in brief: British Heart Foundation survey
Ninety-four per cent of 156 British MPs who responded to a British Heart Foundation survey did not take enough exercise to protect their health, with 85 per cent blaming long hours and 58 per cent 'social commitments' for not managing to take 30 minutes of physical exercise five times per ...
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News in brief: Flu vaccination
The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has launched a £1. 8m flu vaccination programme and public information campaign, aimed particularly at over 65-year-olds.
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News in brief: Jane Hutt
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has reopened the cardiac catheter laboratories of University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, which have been refurbished at a cost of £1. 25m.
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News in brief: Ethnic minorities
The British Medical Association's GPs'committee has written to the Commission for Racial Equality expressing 'grave concerns' about the 'victimisation' of single-handed GPs in the NHS plan. The majority of such GPs come from ethnic minorities.
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News in brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has said he will set up a national group to implement recommendations made by the Royal College of Surgeons last year on the future of kidney services. Patients, health professionals and clinicians will be involved. The college proposed to reduce the number of transplant units ...
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Heart czar calls for inequalities in regional care to be redressed
'Heart czar' Dr Roger Boyle has said the cardiac care map of England needs to be redrawn to overcome an imbalance of treatment benefiting London and the South East.
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Social care: the vicious circle
So, the secretary of state didn't really mean it. Social care is ostensibly reprieved from an NHS takeover, even though the Health Act flexibilities are to become compulsory and the threat of care trust status looms for poorly performing social care partners.