All News articles – Page 2015
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Making a stand for understanding
Caring for Muslim patients Edited by Aziz Sheikh and Abdul Rashid Gatrad Radcliffe Medical Press 140 pages £17.95
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Role model
Samantha Wilkinson, a year nine student at the Dixons city technology college in Bradford, investigates a Bart Simpson model designed as part of a project to help children understand asthma.
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monitor
Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Recovery positions
The General Medical Council is under attack but, Seamus Ward reports, its rearguard action is well underway
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What seems to be the trouble?
TO The rise of the salaried GP threatens the national contract and the red book. Should we care, ask Richard Lewis and Steve Gillam
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£1.3bn in free nursing may resolve cares aga
The government looks set to make its long-awaited response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care by replacing means testing with a £1.3bn package for free nursing in care homes for elderly people.
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In brief: Volatile substance abuse
The annual number of deaths from volatile substance abuse has continued to fall, with a decrease from 74 to 70 deaths in 1998, according to a report from St George's Hospital medical school. The peak of 152 deaths associated with young people sniffing aerosols and glue was in 1990.
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Tribunal told of alleged abuse at care home for elderly
Vulnerable elderly residents died after abuse at a care home run by independent provider BUPA, an industrial tribunal has been told. In a case brought under the new Public Interest Disclosure Act, former care worker Eileen Chubb claimed she was hounded out of her job after complaining about neglect and ...
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New rights act will hit clinical negligence
Trusts are anxiously awaiting 2 October, implementation day for the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English law.
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NHS can insist on advance payments from overseas patients
The NHS can charge in advance for treatment for overseas visitors, two judges have ruled in yet another judicial review.
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Health 'ambassadors' to provide 'key messages'
The first 'health ambassadors' in the UK have been appointed by North Cumbria health authority in a drive to improve communications between doctors, nurses and the public. The HA and North Cumbria health action zone have approved 14 'ambassadors' from across the district. HA chair Barbara Cannon said the people ...
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Ambulance chief delay 'mystery' shrugged off
London Ambulance Service has shrugged off accusations that there is anything 'mysterious' about its failure to replace former chief executive Michael Honey, who left in February.