All News articles – Page 2015
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Ventilator trial inquiry finds 'significant' errors
The inquiry into a controversial ventilator trial at North Staffordshire Hospital trust, in which 28 premature babies died and 15 were left brain damaged, has found inadequacies at every level.
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Doubts over Virgin 'gimmick'
Health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to bring in consultants from Virgin Atlantic to advise the NHS on making hospitals more consumer friendly has been greeted with scepticism.
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Don't look now
Proposed reforms look unlikely to stamp out racism in mental health. And there are fears, reports Matt Weaver, that they could even make things worse
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Hello dolly
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett meets Klaudine Simpson during a visit to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield to open its clinical skills centres for training medical students. They are examining plastic learning models showing a foetus at different stages of development. The centre has a range of manikins and ...
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Liddell departs for Internet job
NHS director of planning Alasdair Liddell has resigned to join a new Internet company specialising in communications between government and business.
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Days like this
Closer working between clinicians and managers. . . purchaser provider split. . . Dorrell's promotion. . . community care reforms Guidance on consultants' contracts agreed between the Department of Health and the British Medical Association have been heralded as a breakthrough in closer working between clinicians and managers.
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Short Cuts: Equal pay victory for women speech therapists
Hundreds of NHS speech and language therapists will share £12m in back pay following the resolution of a 15-year 'equal pay' battle. The MSF union launched a claim in 1986 comparing the pay of 351 female speech and language therapists with professions dominated by men. The previous Conservative government fought ...
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Short Cuts: Doctors to vote on pay system to replace hourly rate
Junior doctors are set to issue their verdict on a new pay system this week. More than 30,000 ballot papers have been sent out by the British Medical Association as doctors decide whether to back proposals agreed with the Department of Health. The new scheme would replace the hourly rate ...
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Chief of NHS Scotland denies he could leave service soon
The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland has attempted to quash speculation that he is to leave the service soon.
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'Missing leaders' are urged to drive change
-NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton has called for the creation of a 'cadre of local leaders' to drive change in the health service.
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'Perverse incentives' may force elderly into care
'Perverse incentives' may force elderly people into residential homes prematurely, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Trust orders cardiac services review
A regional review of cardiac services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust is under way after an internal inquiry cleared a cardiac surgeon of allegations about his drinking and patient care.