All News articles – Page 1995
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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.
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Scots Conservatives won't push private care
The Scottish Conservative Party is likely to take a softer line on expanding the private healthcare sector than its English counterpart.
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MP demands public probe into drinking water over fear of cancer/chlorine link nking water over
The government is being urged to launch a public health probe into possible links between chlorinated tap water, cancer and problems in pregnancy.
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Special hospital to become part of county-wide trust
Ministers have approved proposals to bring Rampton special hospital into a county-wide NHS trust from next April. Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust will bring together Rampton, Central Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust, Nottingham Healthcare trust and some services from Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Rotherham Priority Health Services trust.
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Counter argument
The NHS plan proposes a much wider role for community pharmacies - and this is long overdue, says Nick Bosanquet
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Boroughs' bid to go to Lords over appeal court ruling
Four local authorities are applying for leave to appeal to the House of Lords after failing to overturn a High Court decision that four people sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act were not required to pay for specialist accommodation after they were discharged from hospital. The Appeal Court ruled ...
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New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas
Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills
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NHS plan faces race allegation
A doctors' leader has referred the NHS plan to the Commission for Racial Equality on the grounds that it may discriminate against ethnic, singlehanded GPs.
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Backlog of tests after donor plea
A family's appeal for a bone marrow donor has left the National Blood Authority struggling with a backlog of 3,000 unchecked blood samples.