All News articles – Page 2019
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Research and destroy
The cancer research industry is under fire, described as wasteful and driven by rivalry. Now MPs are launching a root and branch investigation. Patrick Butler reports
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Decline and Fall
Decline and fall Despite recruitment drives, figures show the numbers of nurses, midwives and health visitors are still falling. And they're getting older, writes Barbara Millar
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MSP's dither in health debate
The Scottish Parliaments health committee met for the first time this year last week and carried on in pre millennium vein by failing to make any decisions, other than to appoint Malcolm Chisholm as deputy convenor .
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Days like this
Scores of GP practices have formally registered an interest in fundholding, due to begin next year. Regional health authorities say they have typically received 20 to 40 expressions of interest. One regional co-ordinator commented: It ay be they just don't want to miss the boat and it might all fizzle ...
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Puff daddies
David Hinchliffe was in his usual forthright mood as he faced five of the tobacco industrys biggest players across committee room 15 of the Commons last week.
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Crunch issue: the role of the NHS
What part will the NHS have to play in improved access to shopping?
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Design counsel
When I was an art student in the early 1960s, I fell ill with meningitis which developed into ME, and I was admitted to my local hospital for several weeks. The ward was a Nightingale design in a wartime hut and the regime represented excellent care. The responsibility for this ...
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CHI to pick four sites for reviews
The Commission for Health Improvement is likely to start its programme of clinical governance reviews with four pilot studies of acute trusts.
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CHC patients panel to inform major Welsh merger
A public consultation exercise is being launched in Cardiff, Rhymney Valley and Vale of Glamorgan involving three community health councils and University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital trust. The trust was formed recently by the merger of two acute trusts and is about to merge again with community services. ...
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Delays and failure to involve patients dog new charter
The government has come under fire over lengthy delays and failures to properly involve patient groups in the creation of a new NHS Charter .
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MP's challenge cuts to Third World Surrey NHS
Surrey MPs have accused the government of reducing their local NHS to a Third World service. In an adjournment debate in the Commons last week, the Conservative MP for Guildford, Nick St Aubyn, led the challenge to funding cutbacks, which ministers claim are necessary to redress a historic overspend in ...
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Its a case of Come round to my gaffe
For a bumbling amateur politician, Robert Winston seems to have done remarkably well in persuading Gordon Brown to open his cheque book. Indeed, his performance reminded me of one of those pre-war cartoons by Bateman.
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Pharmaceutical industry puts case for medicines
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has issued a report arguing that the government will need the help of modern medicines to meet its targets set out in the Saving Lives white paper. Director general Dr Trevor Jones said it was surprising that the government had not identified a ...
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PFI shrinking HS capacity, MPs are told
Labour MP's clashed with a long-term opponent of the private finance initiative at a meeting of the influential Commons Treasury select committee last week.
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NHS Direct call centre planned to divert enquiries
Nurse-led telephone helpline NHS Direct has launched a virtual all centre that will automatically divert calls to an NHS Direct centre in another part of the country if one receives an excessive number of enquiries. The technology was developed by Access Health UK to cover nine counties from Northumbria to ...
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The deals on the bus go round and round
Fifteen trusts co-operated in an imaginative attempt to encourage former NHS nurses to return to work, and the results exceeded organisers expectations. Bernadette Duguid explains
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Devolution brings this years winter pressures home to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
The aftermath of this years winter pressures on the NHS has been felt by politicians in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as in England.