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Short Cuts: Conservative proposal to end postcode prescribing
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has promised to end 'postcode prescribing' by setting up a centrally funded national medicines budget for treatments such as beta interferon.The size of the budget would be determined annually by the health secretary, but spent by an 'exceptional medicines fund' committee of 'senior clinicians ...
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Inquiry spells out new tissue retention codes
Trust chief executives should be responsible for ensuring that staff comply with any new laws introduced to ensure children's tissue is not retained without their parents' consent, according to an interim report by the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Highways and law lure two top chiefs
Two of the highest-profile chief executives in the NHS are leaving the health service.
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PCGs under pressure to rush status change
Political pressure to produce rapid results and move to primary care trust status may be undermining the ability of primary care groups to achieve long-term change, a report has warned.
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Head quits over change
The chief executive of a trust at the centre of a national media storm after a patient complained about finding 'do not resuscitate' on her notes has announced he is taking early retirement.
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Short Cuts: Catering and cleanliness undergo tougher scrutiny
Health minister John Denham has told the Healthcare Estates and Facilities Management Association in Telford that catering and hospital cleanliness will be subject to higher standards and tougher inspection by the Audit Commission and Commission for Health Improvement.
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Spending on home care rockets
Social services spending on residential and nursing home care has risen dramatically in comparison with spending on community-based services.
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In Brief: website set up
A website has been set up to inform the public about the government's 'national plan' for NHS modernisation. It includes a button allowing people to send in their views.The website is www. nhs. uk/nationalplan.North West regional office has set up its own website, www.nhsmod-nw.co.uk. It assures staff they will not ...
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In Brief: The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on the use of coronary artery stents in ischaemic heart disease that recommends they should be considered in place of common treatments, including coronary artery bypass grafts.
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In Brief: Llandudno General Hospital
A shortage of laboratory staff has forced Llandudno General Hospital to refuse emergency admissions and divert patients up to 20 miles between 4pm and 9am.North West Wales trust director of operations and performance management Martin Jones said recruitment was 'a national problem'.A recent Institute of Biomedical Science survey showed that ...
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In Brief: Correction
In our news story concerning NHS planning director Alasdair Liddell's departure from the Department of Health (pages 4-5, 11 May), we misquoted NHS finance director Colin Reeves, whose wholehearted tribute to Mr Liddell included praise for his role in 'setting the strategic agenda for the NHS Executive'.The company Mr Liddell ...
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Braking point
The seemingly inexorable rise of prescription costs has been substantially slowed in one primary care group by appointing a medicines management pharmacist who also works in hospital. Elizabeth Reid and colleagues report
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Entire board gives way to enable 'fresh start'
An entire trust non-executive board has been swept aside, following failures in 'human relationships' between members brought together after a four-way merger last year.
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Ethnic babies' death risk doubled
Babies born in the UK to mothers originally from Pakistan or the Caribbean are twice as likely to die in infancy as babies whose mothers were born here, according to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.
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Confederation should be less 'Anglo-centric'
Devolution has prompted the NHS Confederation to consider developing a separate Scottish organisation.
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Best practice group will aid development of co-operatives
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is seeking to kick-start the continuing development of local health care cooperatives with a new group to spread best practice.
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Manager's departure adds to uncertainty
The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.