All News articles – Page 2104
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Roll over, Enthoven
The internal market in the NHS never really happened first time round, so it's time to give it another go, its champion tells Lyn Whitfield
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Fighting tooth and nail
Evil Candy - half woman, half boiled sweet - does battle with dentist McCavity in a play designed to encourage children to take care of their teeth, sponsored by Bexley and Greenwich health authority.
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Forward march
Nursing students in Unison protest about student hardship during a National Union of Students march through London last week. Unison says student nurses often face high accommodation charges because of work placements, as well as the 'more common difficulties of just making ends meet'.
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Gene and tonic?
Testing embryos can identify genetic disorders. But is this the best way forward? Now the public can debate the ethical issues involved, writes Barbara Millar
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Governing the guv'nor
Would greater regulation put managers on a par with other professionals in the NHS, ask Peter Coles and Neil Goodwin
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Missing the vote
Critics of Labour's task-forces say they are not so much 'inclusive' government as a means of keeping dissenters sweet and delaying heavy expenditure. And no-one elects their members, writes Patrick Butler
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Monitor
Monitor's uncanny ability to foretell the future - despite the odd cock-up, such as when Mo Mowlam didn't become health secretary - tempts a new prophecy: the Tories, unable to stomach the prospect of 'Shagger Norris' as their candidate for mayoral office in London, will eventually select the squeaky-clean and ...
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In person
Tony McLean has succeeded Sally Gorham as chief executive of Essex and Herts Community trust. Ms Gorham, who had held the post since 1995, is now chief executive of Harlow primary care group. Mr McLean, a qualified nurse, was deputy chief executive of Allington trust, Ipswich, where he oversaw the ...
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The Tongan winding road
Primary care in the South Pacific is far from idyllic, and patients would hardly recognise the range of services offered in the UK. Geraint Lewis reports on two recent attachments
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WEB WATCH
'I've heard that it is dangerous to take Prozac, and smoke marijuana, or take other illegal drugs. Does anyone know if that is true?' asks Sara. According to RxList, which bills itself as 'the internet drug index', the anti-depressant is the fifth most commonly prescribed drug in the US - ...
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Healthy living centres kick off with £1m plan
One of the government's earliest health policy ideas is showing signs of coming to fruition with the announcement of the first healthy living centre to be funded by the National Lottery.
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Pensions win for staff hit by 1980s privatisation debacle
Former employees of West Midlands regional health authority, who lost their pensions after being transferred to the private sector in the late 1980s, have won a multi-million pound settlement from the Department of Health.
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Guidelines aim to tackle bugs acquired while in hospital
Health minister John Denham has announced new standards on the management of hospital-acquired infections, such as the 'superbug' MRSA.