All News articles – Page 1992
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Terence Etherton QC, chair of Broadmoor Hospital Authority, has been appointed chair designate ofWest London Mental Health trust. The new organisation will take over the management of health services provided by the authority and Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health trust next April.
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Out of order
The government's promise of £300m for new equipment comes after two decades of under-investment, which have left much life-saving machinery obsolete. Colin Connolly reports
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News: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society is creating a national resource centre as part of its move to north London. The society has kept its freephone helpline number, 0808 800 8000, and its website, www.mssociety.org.uk
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Unions protest at ' low ' pay for supernurses
Nursing unions have written to health secretary Alan Milburn in protest at the low pay being offered to 'supernurses'.
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Your money or your life
The hospice movement, a lynchpin of the voluntary sector, is running out of funds. Its leaders say it's time for the NHS to pay for the care of those who use it. Patrick Butler reports
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News: Jane Hutt
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced £1m of funding over two years for research into community health development. Seven projects will be funded as part of SHARP (Sustainable Health Action Research Programme).
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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