All News articles – Page 2021
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Too many facts, too few words
Producing patient information is fraught with pitfalls. Updating a number of factsheets fell to me over a recent wet bank holiday weekend. By Monday evening my mind was reeling from trying to achieve a balance between plain English, political correctness, evidence-based factual accuracy and being neither simplistic and condescending on ...
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'I'm getting some interference': the voice of experience
Victor Paige was the first chair of the NHS management board in 1984, which later became the NHS Executive. He resigned less than two years later.
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No end to the production line
Health minister John Denham was spared the embarrassment of a slow handclap at the British Association of Medical Managers' conference, but the drive for reform has stirred up dissension among the ranks. Alison Moore reports
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Grief encounter
When Helen Easton's teenage son was dying from cancer, she felt isolated in her suffering. Now she is setting up a project to help others in similar circumstances
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Early-warning plan will target failures
An early-warning system to deal with all clinical mistakes in the NHS will be set up by the end of the year.
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Double trouble: this week's role of shame
The Commission for Health Improvement has been called in to investigate four trusts which employed a locum pathologist who misdiagnosed more than 200 cancer patients.
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Managers under fire in regulation debate
Managers have came under fire from both sides in a debate on the future of professional self-regulation for failing to deal with incompetent or improperly behaved health professionals.
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Dear Mel. . .
Our trust is having merger talks with Tesco. Hospital employees will get bonus Club Card points, but I think patients should as well. Do you agree?
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Days like this
Consultants hit out at reforms. . . junior doctors press for strike action. . . focus on London co-ordination. . . accountants steer clear of NHS
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Wales told fresh targets must be met with current funding
The Welsh health service has been set stringent targets on waiting-list reduction which health and social services secretary Jane Hutt insists can be met with a £40m allocation made in May.
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Cooper throws a fit - on scrip
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced plans to expand exercise on prescription schemes.
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Fears that new top job signals tighter control
Managers fear that health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to combine the top jobs at the NHS Executive and Department of Health signals a further tightening of control, ending the arm's-length role of the Executive.
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Clwyd gives vent to private fury over shamed medics
I tend to be wary of public persecution of named individuals, even by politicians (or journalists) I respect. The righteous zeal of the animal rights lobby, for instance, often smacks of the hunt in full pursuit of the fox, as we are finding again this week.
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Hospitals for people with learning disabilities to close
Scotland is to close all of its remaining hospitals for people with learning disabilities within five years and place individuals in the community. Responding to a learning disabilities review published last month, deputy community care minister Iain Gray explained: 'The main finding was that people with learning disabilities should be ...
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List-scandal deputy chief resigns
Plymouth Hospitals trust has accepted the resignation of deputy chief executive Martin Cusack with immediate effect.