All News articles – Page 2020
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Health secretary Alan Milburn has warned that waiting lists will rise over the next couple of months because of the planned priority the NHS has been giving to winter emergencies. The number of patients waiting for inpatient and day-case treatment fell by 8,000 in November to 1,071,400.
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Lotto bother
Launched in 1998, the healthy living centre is a government initiative designed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities. The definition of health here is broad and includes the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, quality of life, environment and access to services.
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Public health body to end contract culture
The demise of the Health Education Authority will end contract culture and poor co-ordination in public health, the head of its slimline successor has pledged.
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Blairs pledge rests soundly on funding through taxation
But many questions remain about when and what extra cash will appear
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Blair line on GDP spend dubbed cynical
Prime minister Tony Blairs promise to increase the share of national income spent on the NHS to European levels in five years has been attacked as a cynical ploy by financial analysts.
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Complaints evaluation slips behind schedule
Patients groups have complained of slippage on the NHS's evaluation of complaints project - ordered in November 1998.
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HA backtracks
Leicester health authority is re-examining plans to move breast care, cardiac and intensive care services from the citys Glenfield Hospital, to turn it into a community hospital.
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Standards report seeks further change in appointment process
Dramatic improvements are needed in the way appointments to NHS boards are made, according to the latest report of the committee on standards in public life.
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View from the opposition: It doesn't add up to a row of beans
Opposition parties were deeply sceptical about Mr Blairs promise, suspecting it was a sleight-of-hand to deflect mounting criticism of the governments handling of the NHS.
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BMA calls for GPs to be brought within race act
The British Medical Association is calling for GP practices with five partners or fewer to be brought within the ambit of the 1976 Race Relations Act as the Race Relations (Amendment) Bill makes its way through Parliament. A similar loophole excluding small practices from the Sex Discrimination Act was closed ...
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Academic takes up chair at Food Standards Agency
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced key appointments to the new Food Standards Agency. Its chair will be Professor Sir John Krebs, former chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and a Royal Society research professor at Oxford Universitys zoology department. His deputy will be Suzi Leather, chair of ...
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Misconduct proved: 93 axed from register
The UKCC'; professional conduct statistics show that 93 nurses, midwives or health visitors were removed from the register in 1998-99, and a further 34 were cautioned about their conduct.
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Working wounded
A three-year project to tackle staff members health problems meant that one trust had to address organisational and personal conflicts, writes Morag Maddocks
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WEB WATCH
Staff appraisal, proclaimed management guru Tom Peters some time back in the last century, is the number one management problem in the US. 'It takes the average employee (manager or non-manager) six months to recover from it.' Anyone think that doesn't apply to the UK or to what we've seen ...
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monitor
As the dawn of the 21st century breaks, time for a special investigation into the mysteries of our cyber-web future. You can't stop progress, and Monitor has already done its bit to embrace global technocracy via the pages of the Innovations catalogue. A trawl through planet progress begins - naturally ...
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Proposed or ongoing mergers
1 Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital trust.
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Man of the match
The post may not be without its problems, but the NHS s new deputy chief executive is widely viewed as an ideal partner for its boss, writes Kaye McIntosh