All News articles – Page 2012
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In Brief: Call for update of Act
The Federation of Independent Nursing Agencies has indicated it has 'strong reservations' about the proposed repeal of the Nursing Agencies Act and called for it to be updated, rather than abolished.
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Two-day target for access to doctors criticised as 'harsh'
Primary care leaders have given a lukewarm response to governmentbacked targets for rapid access to GPs.
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Short Cuts: FPA highlights medical abortion access problems
The Family Planning Association has claimed medical abortion in England is 'over-medicalised and unnecessarily bureaucratic', forcing women to have surgical terminations. A report launched this week says fewer than one in five women having an early abortion on the NHS will receive a medical termination. There are also regional variations. ...
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WEBWATCH
Few healthcare organisations in this country have managed to create the sort of virtual professional communities to which the Internet seems so well suited. It will come - but first people have to conquer the reticence that leaves so many discussion forums with enough significant silences to fill a Harold ...
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Time for tea
An elderly patient tucks in while waiting for a bed at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, during the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales' annual Casualty Watch on Monday. The longest waits revealed by the snapshot of 240 accident and emergency departments were both at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow: ...
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Right on queue
Conservative Party leader William Hague and chair Michael Ancram launch a poster attacking the government's record on waiting lists.
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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference
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Old testament
PCGs are ducking their responsibilities if they cling to the argument that older people are not interested in consultation on services, say Margaret Edwards and Emilie Roberts
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Moving story
An adult placement scheme for residents of a long-stay hospital that is due to close has provoked controversy, writes Colin Wright
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Time is money
A trust which audited the contribution of its volunteers found it was worth thousands. Paddy Browne reports
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List target strategy is 'misconceived'
The government has come under renewed fire from the King's Fund for its 'misconceived' strategy on waiting lists.
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Lawyers in row over mediation
Lawyers have clashed over why government-funded research into the use of mediation to stem a rising tide of NHS litigation failed to attract a significant number of cases.