All News articles – Page 2208
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CHCs' unique role gives patients a voice at grassroots level without challenging others' contribution
Ian Semmons (Letters, 3 September) is mistaken if he believes that community health council members owe allegiance to any voluntary organisation or local authority. The virtue of CHCs is their independence, which is jealously guarded. But there is really no need for CHCs and the Patients Association to feel they ...
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Catching the drift
Plans for an additional 7,000 doctors and 15,000 nurses could be jeopardised by the continuing trend for working abroad among UK graduates and the shortfall in overseas medical staff coming here. Clare Jinks and colleagues argue that the role of continent
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Calman questions screening needs
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman used his final annual report to question the value of some of the 100 screening programmes in place across the NHS.
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Dobson gives green light to pooled budgets but merger ruled out entirely
Health and social services authorities will be able to pool budgets under proposals set out this week in the government's promised consultation document on joint working.
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In brief
Prime minister Tony Blair has been urged to support global rules controlling tobacco marketing in the forthcoming white paper on smoking. The call comes from the World Development Movement campaign, which is trying to stop tobacco companies 'aggressively marketing' products in the third world to replace sales lost in developed ...
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Demand for boards and trusts to share list cuts
Health board general managers and trust chief executives will be expected to 'sign up' to their share of the Scottish waiting list cuts target.
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Potential conflict of interest should rule out co-opting HA finance chiefs on to PCG boards
I was interested to read 'Divide opens over PCG governance' (News, page 3, 20 August), but take exception to Derek Day's comment that he welcomed the paragraph saying senior health authority finance managers could be co-opted on to primary care group boards. I assume he is referring to paragraph 51 ...
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In the blood
Liz Austin joined the NHS as a junior administrative clerk in 1948. Aged 15, she had flirted briefly with the idea of becoming an almoner (a medical social worker attached to a hospital), but her family could not afford to pay for the training. She joined the health service, thinking ...
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'Forming, storming and norming' our way into a better state of health
Beenstock and Walsh ('Going through the change', 3 September) identify many problems that newly commissioned primary care groups will encounter during their formative period. But PCGs' biggest challenge will be to build themselves into effective teams.
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Back to Beveridge
The Liberal Democrats believe they have a blueprint for reassessing the welfare state. But nowhere does their latest health policy paper say how much it would all cost.
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Job scheme under attack from union
Greenwich Healthcare trust has been reported to the National Audit Office for allegedly misusing public money to develop a
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Ambulance trust merger hit by 'mistrust'
'Tension and mistrust' is creeping into merger plans involving three trusts in the east Midlands, according to the chief executives involved.
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Judge London Ambulance Service on today's record, not years gone by
Your article on the London Ambulance Service's multi-lingual phrasebook and cultural awareness handbook (News Focus, 27 August) unfairly presents them as attempts by a 'beleaguered' service to improve its image.
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Mixed-sex wards advice is attacked
Campaigners calling for an end to mixed-sex wards in psychiatric units have attacked advice on new builds issued by the NHS Executive.
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Minority action
Trusts believe in the principle of equal opportunities - the policies are there to prove it - but only a minority know how to put them into practice. Thelma Agnew reports
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Milburn accused over 'easy' fat cat rhetoric
Health minister Alan Milburn has been accused of using 'the easy rhetoric' of 'fat cat managers' by the First Division Association.