All News articles – Page 2005
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Short Cuts: New Assembly faces calls for ambulance funding
Pressure group London Health Emergency is lobbying the capital's new mayor and Assembly in a bid to attract 'massive investment' to London Ambulance Service trust by renewing claims that it is the 'worst-performing urban ambulance service in the country'. Trust acting chief executive Peter Bradley said it was reaching 41 ...
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In Brief: Resource allocation in Wales
The national steering group set up to examine resource allocation in Wales has met for the first time. The group, led by Peter Townsend, professor of social policy at Bristol University, will report to the Welsh Assembly by September.
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Managers fear consultant alienation
Managers reacted cautiously to the government's tough talk on consultants before and after the Rodney Ledward case.
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Is the public ready for its personal hotline to Alan Milburn?
Lyn Whitfield did the rounds in Winchester
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Something in the air
It's a tricky role, but the head of the new Health Development Agency is confident that success is within his grasp. Laura Donnelly met him
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Short Cuts: Livingstone bides time on naming health adviser
London mayor Ken Livingstone has yet to appoint an adviser on health, despite persistent rumours that the post will go to Geoff Martin, campaigns director of London Health Emergency. He recently told HSJ : 'I haven't spoken to Ken directly about this. He said some months ago I would be ...
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Legal action and picket threat to HA over plans to dismantle PCG
Doctors have threatened to take Manchester health authority to court over plans to break up a primary care group, while health visitors have warned they will picket the HA's headquarters in protest.
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24-hour access pledge
The government's newly appointed mental health 'czar' has pledged to introduce 24- hour access to mental health services by April next year and phase out mixed-sex accommodation with-in two years.
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Short Cuts: A&E will escape unscathed from £7m savings push
West Surrey health authority has pledged to leave accident and emergency services untouched at the start of a second phase of consultation on building a 'sustainable' NHS. The HA needs to find £7m savings on top of £11m already identified in the first phase of the consultation exercise. It had ...
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WEB WATCH
You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...
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Spreading the word
The POPPi Guide Practicalities of producing patient information By Mark Duman and Christine Farrell The King's Fund 120 pages £10.99
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Watch this space
Kidderminster General Hospital's acute services have been 'sacrificed' to offset health authority and trust deficits, says a damning report on the political hot potato. James Garnett reports
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in person
Anne Walker has been appointed chief executive of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service trust. She was previously director of commissioning (acute services) at West Herts health authority, although more recently she was acting chief executive of West Herts HA.
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Out of sight
Action to address the growing problem of female genital mutilation is being hampered by taboos and ignorance, writes Claire Laurent
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The wealth of nations
Exploring health policy development in Europe Edited by A Ritsatakis, R Barnes, E Dekker, P Harrington, S Kokko and P Makara. World Health Organisation Regional Publications, European series, No. 86 537 pages £80Distributed by the Stationery Office
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Number of people on Welsh lists rises substantially
Welsh waiting lists have risen again. Figures for April, released last week, show the number of people waiting for inpatient and day-case treatment rose by 800 over the month, to 80,603.Of these, 6 per cent - 4,593 - had been waiting for more than 18 months. Outpatient waiting lists also ...