All News articles – Page 2216
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Lib Dems seek to outlaw anti-elderly discrimination
Refusal of treatment because patients are too old would be outlawed under a bill sponsored by Twickenham Liberal Dem-ocrat MP Vincent Cable.
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AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row
English health authorities have been accused of misspending HIV budgets by not following government guidance that at least half should target vulnerable groups.
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Aggrieved GPs take a back seat in the new NHS Denham is wise to keep clinicians at arm's length in decision-making
Health minister John Denham is proving himself a worthy successor to Alan Milburn in his ability to talk nonsense about handing power to GPs, while in practice ensuring that real decision-making rests elsewhere (see news, pages 2-3).
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CHC wins access to PFI scheme in 'groundbreaking' deal on rights
A community health council has secured 'groundbreaking' access to a new private finance initiative hospital.
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Junior doctors spurn abortion
A pressure group is calling for an overhaul of NHS abortion services in the light of a survey showing that junior doctors may be increasingly unwilling to provide them.
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Ambulance trust chief executive retires before 999 inquiry reports
The chief executive of an ambulance trust has retired, weeks before an inquiry reports on allegations that response times were 'doctored'.
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The nursing shake-up
A new Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Council will replace the UK Central Council and the four national boards governing nurse education. The government is consulting the NHS on three points on how it will work.
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The jury is out
In 1996 and 1997 the King's Fund and the Institute for Public Policy Research shared sponsorship of citizens' juries set up in six health authorities. Healthy Debate is a comprehensive account of the evaluation, which had three aims: to assess how far juries had enabled local people to become involved ...
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Regulation issue
Doctors appear to have escaped the threat of ministerial intervention. Other professions are less fortunate. Pat Healy reports
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Figuring out the problem
Frank Dobson wants to see the 13 chairs whose health authorities failed to meet cervical screening targets. Barbara Millar reports
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Empty pocket
In the second of our occasional series following five PCGs in Enfield and Haringey, Kaye McIntosh finds that the area suffers financially from having a mobile, inner-city population