All News articles – Page 1994
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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
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In Brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has given the go-ahead for public consultation on proposals to merge Calderdale Healthcare trust and Huddersfield Healthcare Services trust. Public consultation will start on 17 August.
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Huge shake-up to keep founding aims intact
Prime minister Tony Blair is due to unveil the government's NHS 'national plan' to the Commons this afternoon, promising a more consumer-oriented NHS 'fit for the 21st century'.
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Short Cuts: Affordable housing vital for Livingstone
London mayor Ken Livingstone has set up a housing commission to advise on affordable housing and develop planning policies to create more low-cost homes. The establishment of the commission fulfils one of Mr Livingstone's election pledges. He said it was vital to tackle the 'housing crisis' in London which had ...
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Advocacy idea fails to find PAL in CHCs
The national plan's proposals for patient advocacy and liaison services (PALs) have sown confusion about the future of community health councils.
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Mental health teams will help young adults
Mental health experts have reacted enthusiastically to expectations that the national plan will boost early interventions for young people with psychosis and schizophrenia.
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Short Cuts: Adult smoking levels down over two decades
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has welcomed a compilation of statistics on smoking from 1978 onwards that show it has dropped among adults. The figures show that in 1998, 27 per cent of adults aged 16 and over smoked cigarettes, a drop from 40 per cent in 1978.But the prevalence ...
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Surgeons admit no evidence of value for money in trauma plans
The Royal College of Surgeons has demanded a major re-organisation of trauma services, while admitting there is no evidence this would be costeffective.
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Heard the one about. . .
. . . a national plan to resolve the problems of the NHS? A laudable concept but plagued with pitfalls for politicians. Rudolf Klein has heard it all before
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In Brief: The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research
The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research during 1999-2000, of which 11 involved focus groups, and 12 involved 'other market research' (the remainder are 'quantitative surveys'). Some 31 are listed as 'not published'. (Hansard , 17 July, col 65w)
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In Brief: The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999
The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999, with the most productive years being 1988 and 1991, when nine hospitals with a capital value of over £25m (at today's prices) went up in each year. Not included in the figures were the 38 major hospitals that have ...
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PFI projects ring up £52.7m in consultant bills
The full scale of expenditure on financial advisers, lawyers and other consultants in the 18 major private finance initiative hospital schemes that have so far gone ahead has been revealed in the Commons - a cool £52.7m.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...