All News articles – Page 2015
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Data protection for managers
It is remarkable that managers in the NHS and the private sector do not know what their doctors are doing and that trust boards sail along in ignorance of consultant activity levels and the variations therein. How can health authorities and insurers manage these employees in a manner consistent with ...
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Cost-effective?
The Audit Commission says it was not possible to model all the alternative services with their different costs but that studies so far have produced 'encouraging results':
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GMC confirms need for doctor reforms
Plans to make doctors prove they are good at their jobs will be unveiled today by the embattled General Medical Council.
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NHS Wales HR strategy set to embrace common core training
The NHS in Wales is to push ahead with 'common core training' for health professionals - an idea still being debated by England's modernisation action teams.
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Clear-out of top managers
Scotland's chief medical officer, Sir David Carter, is to take up a senior post with a charity following his departure from the health service in September.
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UK's health system is one of the fairest in the world, WHO claims
The UK's health system emerges as one of the fairest in the world in the annual report of the World Health Organisation.
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Denham reveals CHI clampdown on infection rates
Health minister John Denham has said the Commission for Health Improvement and Audit Commission will have a legal right to demand information on hospital infection rates - and publish it. The move will be part of an attack on what Mr Denham called 'unacceptable variations' in infection rates between hospitals ...
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Heading for a change
The fourth article on the government's modernisation programme looks at the work of the professions modernisation action team. Its brief is 'to increase flexibility in training and working practices and remove demarcations, in the context of major expansion of the healthcare workforce'.
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CBE honour for CHI chief Homa
Former waiting-list buster and current director of the Commission for Health Improvement Dr Peter Homa has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours.
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Careers without tiers
A course that teaches nurses to do work normally carried out by surgeons has led to some graduates running their own day-case clinics. Jane Farrell reports
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Cancer money may be spread wider in future
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has said that NHS cancer research money may in future be spread wider than the big three cancer research centres.
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Calls for tougher restrictions on consultants' private undertakings
Consultants should not be allowed to undertake private practice unless they can show that none of their NHS patients are waiting more than three months for hospital treatment, the health select committee heard this week.
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Rapid rise in HIV diagnoses may lead to budget shortfall
Fears are growing that the budget for AIDS and HIV services in London will fall short by at least £5m this year, despite receiving a £21.7m uplift.
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Buddy byes
Actor Tony Robinson led a fulsome tribute to general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe, who is retiring at the end of the year.
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In brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has ruled that taxanes Taxotere and Taxol can be used to treat advanced breast cancer where other drugs have not worked or are unsuitable. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry welcomed the decision , but said it should have been reached without the ...
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In brief: Dr Mo Mowlam
Cabinet Office minister Dr Mo Mowlam, who co-ordinates drug policy across the government, has announced that £1m from the confiscated assets fund will be used to finance research on drug misuse among women and ethnic minorities.
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In brief: Private finance initiative contract
Thirteen of Wales' 15 trusts are taking part in a single procurement exercise for replacement finance systems. The £20m private finance initiative contract is due to be signed in September. Project board chair Alan Brace, finance director at Pontypridd and Rhondda trust, said it offered 'big economies of scale' and ...
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In brief: Mancunian Community Health trust
Mancunian Community Health trust is providing staff who will act as one-to-one mentors for pupils at three Manchester schools. They will meet 15 to 16-year-old pupils regularly to advise on health service careers.
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In brief: Ministry of Defence
The Ministry of Defence has set up a system to monitor the health of troops deployed in Sierra Leone, describing this as a 'sensible precaution' because of the large number of personnel involved. Some arrived in West Africa without anti-malaria tablets or immunisations.