All News articles – Page 2002
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In Brief: Greater Glasgow health council complaints
Greater Glasgow health council dealt with 425 complaints relating to NHS services last year - a 29 per cent increase on the previous year. Most of the increase was due to complaints about plans to site a secure unit in the grounds of Stobhill Hospital.
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In Brief: Correction
MHA was mistakenly called MAH in the Open Space 'Closer to Home', published in HSJ on 10 August.
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Week-long strike call as Unison members escalate PFI dispute
Unison members have voted for a week-long strike in a further escalation of their dispute over a private finance initiative deal in Dudley.
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Short Cuts: Minimum wage campaign to visit music festivals
Unison is planning to take its campaign to raise the minimum wage to music festivals in Reading, Leeds and Glasgow this bank holiday Monday - with support from Sid and Nancy the motorised wheelie bins, Rosa the nurse and 12ft-high puppets of political figures including chancellor Gordon Brown and shadow ...
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Short Cuts: Stem cell research and response welcomed
The Academy of Medical Sciences has welcomed the report of chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson on stem cell research and the government's response to it. The report, Stem Cell Research: medical progress with responsibility , recommends an extension of embryo research and says that research involving cell nuclear replacement ...
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Concerns grow over clinical consequences of merger
Consultants and patient groups have signalled their opposition to a merger of trusts involved in a controversial £250m private finance initiative hospital rebuilding project.
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Piping cold
The new law - and trusts' own policies - to protect whistleblowers is yet to make an impact, and some staff groups may be loath to use them, writes Ann McGauran
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Short Cuts: GP practices to go online by next year
Oxfordshire health authority has announced plans to link the county's 89 GP practices to the Internet and NHSnet by March next year. The plan will be taken forward with £282,000 from the government's £60m investment in IT announced in June. All Oxfordshire hospitals will also be linked to the new ...
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Days like this
Nurse suspended. . .More waiting lists. . .HEA alarm at shake-up. . .HAs launch health service lottery. . .Medical laboratory officer overpaid. . .
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Dear Mel. . .
We have recently had a consultation exercise with the patients in our practice. Their main concerns are that they don't like children jumping up and down on the waiting-room chairs, and they are frightened of the practice nurse as she grinds her teeth when she is taking blood samples. What ...
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Doctors strengthen NHS plan opposition
GPs and hospital doctors have repeated and strengthened their opposition to key elements of the government's NHS plan.
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Putting the wheels in emotion
Heart-rending appeals for potential bone marrow donors to help named individuals can spark the public imagination, but they can obscure the bigger picture, says Lynne Greenwood
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Flight of fancy
Three year-old Dillawar Syed investigates a bronze statue of Peter Pan created by Dairmuid Byron O'Connor and placed outside Great Ormond Street Hospital.Author JM Barrie gave all the rights to 'Peter Pan' to the hospital. Kit Palmer, head of development for Peter Pan, said the statue would provide a 'lasting ...
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Toast fans feel the heat
A Scottish hospital has collected 280 illicit toasters following an amnesty.
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Happy landings?
The UK is reliant on overseas nurses more than ever, andmany arrive from countries which have shortages of their own, contravening DoH advice. James Buchan reports
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Happy from Tunbridge Wells
Four Filipino nurses tell Alison Moore what brought them to England, how they find nursing here and their hopes for the future