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A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
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'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
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Tailoring expected in guidance on working time for NHS managers
The NHS Executive is expected to recommend that all health service managers should be covered by the European working time directive, on which an advance letter is due next Thursday.
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Pro-family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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New family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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Distinct improvement
The Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards is to lose its in-built medical majority, although some doubt this goes far enough to justify the system, reports Mark Crail
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Short cuts Nursing home set up to replace long-stay hospital
Edinburgh Healthcare trust is investing £1m in setting up a 16-bed nursing home in the grounds of Corstorphine Hospital. It will be run and staffed by the NHS and will provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarburn Hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Patients at a Scottish hospital
Patients at a Scottish hospital have been asked to bring in their own quilts and duvets during their stay after management admitted running out of bed linen. Staff at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride had to phone patients who were about to be admitted and ask them if they could ...
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Short cuts Trainee respiratory staff
Trainee respiratory staff are being offered bursaries of £750 towards the cost of attending next year's European Respiratory Society conference in Madrid, or the American Thoracic Society conference in California. Details from Sheila Edwards, chief executive, British Thoracic Society, 6th floor, North Wing, New Garden House, 78 Hatton Garden, London ...
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Short cuts Edinburgh Healthcare
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust is investing £1 million in setting up a 16 bed nursing home, in the grounds of Corstorphine hospital and run and staffed by the NHS, to provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarurn hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Improved surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of foodborne viral infection, along with good hygiene practice, are called for in a report from the Departments of Health and Agriculture. Report by the Advisory Committee on Microbiolical Safety of Food, £17.50, Stationery Office.
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The talking cure for poor performance
Counselling for managers By Nigel MacLennan Gower 296 pages £24.99
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The human cost of PFI
That unions have won rights to screen private finance initiative bidders' employment records is to be applauded, but what of patients?
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Short cuts Community nurses can reach socially excluded
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people who can't be reached by other health services, according to King's Fund chief executive Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality healthcare to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become ...
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Short cuts Community nurses
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people which other health services can't, according to Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality health care to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become dangerously unwell,' she told a joint ...
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heading to come
We've got the picture now, thanks to a flood of reports from or about the government: children need looking after better than we've managed lately. Yet we're still in a terrible muddle. Like those harrowing photos we always see in Armistice Week, the victims often end up in hospital, jail ...