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Who cares wins
The changing nature of nursing in a managerial age By Ian Norman and Sarah Cowley Blackwell Science 192 pages £16.99
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Minister issues threat to overrule MSPs in row over cash share out
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon looks set to overrule MSPs in a clash over a major reform of the way NHS funds are shared out.
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Loss cause
Eighty-five ex-employees of a privatised NHS consultancy who lost their pensions when it went to the wall have reached a settlement - but the fight goes on for those still awaiting justice. Patrick Butler reports
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Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson watches staff nurse Damon Harritz Grech demonstrate the advanced clinical information system at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, with patient Mark Wainright.
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Short Cuts: Scots secure psychiatric services at 'crisis point'
A shortage of secure psychiatric beds and an increase in referrals mean psychiatric services in Scotland have reached crisis point, according to the annual report of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. It says the State Hospital at Carstairs, which provides high-security beds for Scotland and Northern Ireland, will become ...
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Short Cuts: Numbers on nursing register fall to seven-year low
Annual statistics published by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting show the number of people on its register has fallen to a seven-year low. The number of people registered fell 3,220 to 634,229 last year. But the number leaving the register fell and the number joining ...
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Publish and be damned
Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Days like this
Lobby opposes NHS Bill. . . Managers want reforms scaled down. . .£103m for IT. . . New DoH deputy secretary. . . Hospital plan opposed
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To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time
Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions
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Langlands rebukes HFMA as DoH turns the screw on media
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has rebuked finance directors in the wake of a survey showing that the NHS is set to plunge into deficit this year.
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Schizophenia Drugs
Exciting claims about what 'atypical' antipsychotic drugs can do are marred by the poor quality of much of the research evidence, say Paul Wilson, Simon Gilbody and Anne-Marie Bagnall
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Sight for sore eyes
Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.
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Going with the grain
Artist Nicola Kerr Bone creates a healing mandala , a symbolic representation of the universe, at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for world AIDS day. It was made from coloured grains of rice.
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Teaming with ideas
A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain
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MPs' ignorance shown
Lack of knowledge about mental health laws does not stop MPs claiming a 'specific interest' in mental health, according to a survey by mental health charity MACA.
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Penalty kicks
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country under the terms of the new Immigration and Asylum Act will make it harder than ever for them to access medical services. Barbara Millar reports
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Top managers sign millennium service pledge
Trust and health authority chief executives have been ordered to sign a public 'guarantee' to deliver key services as part of final preparations for the millennium.