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All the recommendations of the Continuing Care conference must be speedily implemented
I was interested to see you refer to the Continuing Care conference's calculation that 'a 1 per cent annual reduction in morbidity would cut the costs of publicly provided care by 30 per cent, saving more than £6bn by 2030' (comment, 4 March).
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Short cuts Epidemic threat prompts launch of TB Alert charity
A charity called TB Alert has been launched by trade and industry minister Ian McCartney, who said that governments needed to recognise the challenge presented by tuberculosis. The charity says TB is killing 3 million people a year, and western countries such as the UK could face epidemics which they ...
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Dobson agrees to ICU meeting
Intensive care managers will tell health secretary Frank Dobson that patients are being put at risk by bed and staff shortages, at a meeting set to take place weeks after South East regional office ordered a 'stock- take' of intensive care provision.
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'Admit rationing and justify it' King's Fund tells government
The government should admit rationing is inevitable and back efforts to make the process fairer and more transparent, the King's Fund has said.
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Short cuts NHS told it 'must do more to prevent child abuse'
The NHS should do more to reduce child abuse, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which has launched a campaign to raise £250m and eliminate child abuse within a generation. Mike Taylor, director of children's services, said: 'The health service should be looking at ...
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Short cuts Targets set for cutting public sector absenteeism
The Cabinet Office has issued a resource pack to help public sector organisations improve staff attendance at work. The pack, developed in consultation with trade unions, sets out best practice techniques to 'maximise' attendance. The government aims to reduce sickness in the civil service by 20 per cent by 2001 ...
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Rationing and privatisation are not solutions
Dorothy White has highlighted the often covert discrimination in the NHS exercised against older people ('Rational thinking', 25, page 11 February).
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Staff strike as PFI row rumbles on
Indefinite strike action by staff protesting against a private finance initiative project was due to start this week at one of London's largest trusts.
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Trusts 'saving on nurses'
Trusts must stop trying to save money by employing fewer senior nurses, Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock demanded last week.
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monitor
Like all good media barons, Lord Monitor was present in the Upper House for the committee stage of the Health Bill. It was not a good day for the fragrant Baroness Hayman, who got into difficulties defending the Commission for Health Improvement's absolute right to say anything it likes about ...