All News articles – Page 1983
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Sweeter than Honey
The new chief executive of the troubled London Ambulance Service has come in for universal praise. What's his secret, wonders Laura Donnelly
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Hike tobacco tax, says WHO
The World Health Organisation has claimed that using tax to raise cigarette prices by 10 per cent would 'motivate' 42 million people to quit smoking, preventing about 10 million tobacco-related deaths.
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NHS modernisation research fund proposed
A consultation paper has been issued by the Department of Health on the future of NHS research and development. The paper proposes a new modernisation fund to 'help align funding with priorities', a review of health authority-funded R&D, which is currently excluded from the NHS R&D levy, and a review ...
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Fast-track heart teams's spark spin row
The government has named 10 'fast-track' teams which will receive £1m each to tackle heart disease.
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Time to give nurses their dues
Promise of high salaries for supernurses is little more than a red herring
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News: Department of Health
The Department of Health has allocated £5m for 'highly specialised' child and adolescent mental health in-patient services, as part of a £90m three-year package announced last year.The money will provide at least 20 extra beds, regional and sub-regional arrangements for emergency admission and assessment, and increases in specialised intensive outreach ...
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Electronic records on hold in PFI deal
A unique deal to provide a sophisticated electronic patient record system as part of a private finance initiative scheme has been put on hold, less than two years after it was signed.
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Days like this
The Department of Health's £4m drive to improve NHS communications is in tatters after events for managers ended in disarray. The exercise was shelved after problems climaxed in a rebellion of managers from North East Thames, who complained that sessions were too simplistic. Consultants hired to conduct the events treated ...
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Local counsel
An enterprising recruitment scheme is tackling the under-representation of people from ethnic minorities in the NHS and social care workforce by nurturing talent on its own doorstep. Janet Snell reports
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What a nasty complaint
Changes to contracts, guaranteed appointment times, too few extra doctors. . .GPs are getting down to some serious grumbling on the extra pressures they say the NHS plan will bring to the profession. Ann McGauran reports
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News: Royal Colleges of Physicians
The faculty of public health medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK has issued a chronology detailing key parliamentary acts, inquiries and other events that have been used by central and local government to provide or regulate medical care, public health and welfare services since 1066. It ...
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Nurses see through dress code
West Country nurses have been warned to choose their underwear with care following the reissue of a trust's uniform policy.
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DoH clarifies 'patient group directions'mix-up
The government has quietly issued a circular on 'patient group directions' following 'an error' in the NHS plan about nurse prescribing.
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SNP challenges Executive over transfer of equipment funding
The Scottish National Party has accused the Scottish Executive of colluding with NHS trusts over the transfer of money meant for capital purchases into debt reduction.
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It's US cash on delivery for the mother superior
August is the silly season, so we should not panic about the decline of seriousness when the papers, broadsheet as well as tabloid, over-react to William Hague's 14 teenage pints or to Madonna's strictures on British gynaecology.
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Shipman case sparks monitoring of GPs
Dumfries and Galloway health board has decided to monitor GP death rates in the wake of the Harold Shipman case, in a move opposed by GP leaders.