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Short Cuts: Council votes to sort cash crisis with outside help
Local councillors have voted to call in the auditor general for Scotland to investigate the cash crisis at Tayside University Hospitals trust. Members of Angus council unanimously voted to write to Robert Black to ask him to investigate the £11.1m overspend and the £8m deficit forecast for this year. Although ...
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Trust to be questioned on conduct during Neale case
Northallerton Health Services trust is facing tough questions over why it gave gynaecologist Richard Neale a £100,000 payoff, bought his private consulting rooms and gave him a reference that allowed him to practise at other hospitals.
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Headhunters hired to get Carter's successor
The Scottish Executive is facing new charges of 'cronyism' following the announcement that Ronnie Cleland is to play a leading role in recruiting a new chief medical officer for Scotland.
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Short Cuts: Cancer care programme to be extended in Wales
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been asked to extend its programme on cancer care in Wales. NICE will carry out a two-year programme to provide guidance for clinicians and managers on the organisation of cancer services, minimum standards, access to new drugs and support for cancer patients and ...
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Mental health strategy damned as MPs call for hospital closures
The Commons health select committee has launched a fierce attack on key strands of government policy on mental health.
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MPs call for 'pilot' elections to trusts
MPs have urged the government to consider elections for members of trust and health authority boards.
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In Brief: GP committee has expressed 'disappointment'
The British Medical Association's GP committee has expressed 'disappointment' with government plans to spend £54.5m moving clinics into local surgeries. It said the investment was 'less than £1 per patient', it was not clear where the money would go and it should be used to 'reduce workload' not 'increase demand ...
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In Brief: John Hutton
Health minister John Hutton has introduced new standards for the size of rooms and communal areas in care homes, following the end of consultation on its document Fit for the Future, published last year. No more than 20 per cent of rooms will be shared from 2002.
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In Brief: Welsh centre for NHS Direct satellite
A satellite centre for NHS Direct will be set up at North Wales trust's base at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced. NHS Direct already operates from Cardiff. The new base will cover north Wales and mean that the whole of Wales will be covered ...
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In Brief: Worcestershire
Worcestershire local medical committee has urged Worcestershire health authority to agree to an independent, expert examination of its plans for a private finance initiative redevelopment of Worcester Royal Infirmary and its impact on services in Kidderminster. It says it is 'profoundly unhappy' with the widely criticised plans.
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Ghetto blasters
The need to end the exclusion of public health was the theme of Commons health select committee discussions this week. Ann McGauran listened in
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Short Cuts: Call for ban on burger vans outside school gates
The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association has called for burger vans to be banned from outside school gates to add to moves to improve children's eating habits.
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In Brief: London region has highest number of GPs approaching retirement
The London region of the NHS has the highest number of GPs approaching retirement in England. It calculates that 206 of its 4,000 GPs - or roughly 5 per cent of the total - are aged 64 or over, although this means they have in theory up to six years ...
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Public teed off with 'golf club' criterion for appointments
Members of the public believe the key criterion for serving on a public body is belonging 'to the right golf club', according to research for the commissioner for public appointments.
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Short Cuts: Dentists to lose right to give general anaesthetics
Dentists will be banned from giving general anaesthetics in their practices from 2002 following a review by chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson. Between 1996 and 1999, eight people died while receiving general anaesthetic in a dentist's surgery, of whom five were children. Any practices continuing to give general anaesthetics ...
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In Brief: 'pathology alliance'
The Royal College of Pathologists, Institute of Biomedical Science and Association of Clinical Scientists have created a 'pathology alliance' to represent pathology's three main staff groups.
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All change
There's a lot more to a practice manager's job than meets the eye. Jeremy Davies looks at research into this chameleon-like profession which found stark differences in pay, conditions and roles