All News articles – Page 1981
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Private healthcare comes to the aid of the politicians
The Conservative Party is pressing ahead with its plans for a major expansion of private healthcare, promised at its party conference last week.
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Milburn announces new deal for staff
Health secretary Alan Milburn has launched the human resources framework that will make the way NHS employers treat staff a core performance measure for the first time.
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No chance of avoiding crisis
Only by valuing staff can the NHS retain loyalty through a difficult winter
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Beam me up, Bournemouth
Astride a Star Trek set, William Hague delighted the Conservative conference, though on health he may get a rougher ride from voters than he did from delegates, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Wrong side of beds
The key to taking the heat off mental health inpatient care may not be as simple as simply increasing bed numbers. Robert Lee and Derek Bradley report on their findings
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'Politics bias'attacked
The commissioner for public appointments has called for greater openness about the political affiliation of public appointees in the NHS.
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Conference with extra bite
Health secretary Alan Milburn believes the NHS must be the best, as well as the biggest, employer in the land. 'Don't wait for advice: start now' was the message to the Institute of Healthcare Management. Lyn Whitfield and Tash Shifrin report
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Clean break
Regulating the health profession requires tact. But the new Council has to go to the heart of the matter, says Celia Davies
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Call to highlight screening's limits
Screening programmes should be re-named 'risk-reduction programmes' to help educate people about their limits, according to the UK national screening committee.
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Human rights cases gather momentum
A patient at Broadmoor special hospital who was forcibly given medication has won permission to go to the Court of Appeal, in one of the first human rights cases to reach court on 2 October, the day the Human Rights Act came into force.
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Union challenge to halted holiday leave
Unions are challenging a deal made by Lanarkshire Acute trust in Scotland which will see holiday leave stopped for three months during the move to two private finance initiative sites.
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Fluoride study fails to spark major changes
The publication of the 'most comprehensive review of research on water fluoridation' has done nothing to unite fiercely pro and anti-fluoridation lobby groups.
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Trust chief under fire
The chief executive of South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust has been suspended while an investigation into 'certain administrative procedures'- understood to mean waiting lists - takes place.
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New credo, new code
IHM chief executive Stuart Marples this week urged managers to put aside 'command and control' management and adopt a 'new credo in which they would be guides' to develop their staff.
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UK and EU courts rule on pensions
NHS pension scheme rules which provide for a survivor's pension for a widow or widower but not an unmarried partner are coming under challenge in both the UK and European courts.
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Days like this
Shadow health secretary Robin Cook told the Labour Party conference: 'The Tories have had 10 years to run down the NHS, and it will take time to put it right. But we are determined to do it. 'He stressed this would not be an easy job, and it could take ...