All News articles – Page 2001
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Union blasts PFI firm over shifts
The company running non- clinical services at the country's first private finance initiative hospital has been accused of scrapping 'family friendly' shift patterns and forcing 40 cleaners into taking redundancy.
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Breastfeeding
Successful promotion of the benefits of breastfeeding requires balanced co-ordination of education and peer support for mothers, as well as training for healthcare staff, write Lisa Fairbank and Sue O'Meara
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News: English and Welsh cancer services
The Commission for Health Improvement and the Audit Commission are to examine a random selection of health organisations as part of a review of cancer services. The findings will be used to assess progress in implementing the 1995 Calman-Hine report and the 1996 Cameron report on English and Welsh cancer ...
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Cash-hungry, volatile and high-risk: the genomics industry
The business of genomics is not dissimilar to that of Internet commerce:
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Scottish control centres set to close
Scottish Ambulance Service is proposing to reduce its control rooms from eight to two or three.
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MPs 'frustrated' by difficulty in changing NHS
The National Audit Office has saved the taxpayer £1.3bn over the past three years, meeting its target to save £8 for every £1 it costs to run, Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, said as it released its annual report last week.Four reports issued over the past year looked ...
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News: National Childbirth Trust
The National Childbirth Trust has called for 'one-stop information shops' to be set up in health centres and hospitals. A study found seven out of 10 first-time mothers wanted more information on everything from possible interventions in pregnancy to how to get back into shape.
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Clean sweep
The government promises that dirt and grime are to be banished from hospitals - now. Lyn Whitfield wonders if a quick fix is really the answer
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More to a clean-up than mops
Facile approach to the topic belies complex issues lying at its heart
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Closer to home
Although many hospital patients would be better off at home, intermediate care is regarded with scepticism in many quarters. A shift in attitudes is called for, according to Jacqueline Mallender and Andrew Richman
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MPs want super-ombudsman to be gateway for complaints
MPs have called for a super-ombudsman service to replace the separate watchdogs for Parliament, local government and the health service.
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Conspicuous consumption
TB is perceived as a poverty-related disease of the distant past, but it is making a comeback, especially in London, writes Laura Donnelly
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GPs protest over plans for contracts shake-up
GP leaders have attacked the NHS plan for setting 'unrealistic' targets in its call for family doctors to move to new contracts and limiting increases in the workforce.
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'Hit squad' head cool on red-light move
The head of the national patient access team has moved to distance herself from the government's decision to 'name and shame' seven trusts over their waiting-list performance.
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Days like this
Managers' representatives have attacked NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's demand for action on waiting lists. He wants no patients waiting more than two years for treatment by March 1992, and has said managers' performance-related pay would be judged on waiting times. But the Institute of Health Services Management said he ...