All News articles – Page 2084
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Days like this
GPcontracts row. . . Warning over inner cities. . . Community care cash worry. . . Action on infant mortality. . . Channel Tunnel investigation. . .
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Short Cuts: HEA launches safer-sex website for holiday youth
A web page offering safer-sex advice for young people going on holiday has been launched by the Health Education Authority with help from Sun agony aunt Deidre Sanders, who answered questions online. The project follows a survey of 400 people aged 18 to 32, 16 per cent of whom reported ...
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Short Cuts: Welsh coast leukaemia probe finds no link evidence
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced that an independent examination of claims of a higher than normal incidence of leukaemia among children living on the north Wales coast has found 'no evidence' of a link. The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment examined ...
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Care-free and single?
An impressive start by Wales' single ambulance trust has been marred by disputes with staff and complaints about rural cover, writes Lyn Whitfield
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Take it from the top on career development
Chairs and chief executives should be 'role models and champions of life-long learning', according to government guidance on continuing professional development in the NHS.
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In Brief: Pfizer will not sue
Drug company Pfizer has announced that it will not sue the government for compensation in the wake of the High Court judgement that health secretary Frank Dobson acted unlawfully in his initial guidance banning the prescription of anti-impotence drug Viagra on the NHS.
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In Brief: The Commons health select committee to launch inquiry
The Commons health select committee is to launch an inquiry into 'what action the tobacco industry has taken, and is taking, in response to the scientific knowledge of the harmful effects of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine'. The inquiry will also look at 'the role of the government ...
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In Brief: Guidelines on euros
NHS organisations are not obliged to deal in euros and should only do so if this represents value for money, according to guidance issued by the NHS Executive. It also says that dealing in euros can be done through the normal banking system, and separate euro accounts will not usually ...
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In Brief: Hugh Ross statement
Hugh Ross, chief executive of United Bristol Healthcare trust, was referring to the NHS, rather than the trust specifically, when he said issues relating to consent for postmortems and tissue retention had 'perhaps' been handled 'in a somewhat cavalier fashion' in the past (news, page 5, 15 July).
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Branching out
Children from Warley Road Primary School test out a 'living shelter' made of willow at Manor Health Park, Halifax, with Judy Stewart, senior health promotion specialist at Calderdale Healthcare trust.
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NAO blasts 'unacceptable' payouts by Scottish trusts
Spending watchdogs have criticised two Scottish trusts for making 'unacceptable' pay-offs to former executives.
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Heart surgery audit hit by lack of resources as units drop out
Ten cardiac units which failed to take part in 'the first comprehensive audit of heart surgery' have blamed lack of resources and facilities for their absence from the data.