All News articles – Page 1992
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Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...
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Joyless triumph
A trust's 'achievement' in bringing the first major PFI project to completion has been tempered by claims that the way it has been funded is a 'disaster'. Patrick Butler reports
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Glasgow 'superplan' hits flak
Greater Glasgow health board has proposed a £400m capital programme, funded through private finance, leading to the development of a 'superhospital' at the city's Southern General Hospital.
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RCP reveals plans to gauge heart disease progress
The Royal College of Physicians this week unveiled plans to measure the progress of NHS services against the national service framework for coronary heart disease. The pilot scheme - funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will be rolled out to cover all acute hospitals offering cardiac services ...
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Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.
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Mind over a difficult matter
Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30
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LHGs will be given time to develop, says Hutt
Local health groups in Wales will be allowed to develop at a 'comfortable' pace, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt told a conference marking their first year of operation.
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Days like this
Managers told to 'soft pedal' on internal market. . . Disciplinary code for doctors. . . Long-stay patient transfer deemed a success. . .
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Cut and dry
The Alder Hey organ scandal, which led to the resignation of Frank Taylor last week, has resulted in new guidance on the issue. Barbara Millar reports
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MSPs condemn NHS for 'secrecy culture'
Members of the Scottish Parliament's health committee used a parliamentary debate to attack NHS organisations for operating a 'culture of secrecy and fear'.
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Commission impossible
Yet another significant NHS date is looming. On 1 April the first primary care trusts will go live, many combining the responsibility of commissioning around 80 per cent of the local NHS budget with delivering a range of community services.
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Dead reckoning: what the Royal College of Pathologists recommends
Medical schools and hospitals must provide training for medical and other appropriate personnel in requesting and obtaining agreement for post-mortems. Anyone seeking agreement for a post-mortem must first liaise with the pathologist to determine the necessity of, and grounds for, retaining tissue so that relatives can make informed decisions. Hospital ...
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'Ethically wrong' to shift cigarette duties to NHS
Public health experts have condemned chancellor Gordon Brown's move to divert money from cigarette duties directly to the NHS as 'ethically wrong'.
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Childbearing witness
Race and childbirth By Savita Katbamna Open University Press 157 pages £18. 99 paperback
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Head-banging tendency can't stop march of time
GPs must face up to difficulties and opportunities posed by New NHS