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Manager sacked after probe into 'intimidation'
A nursing manager accused of bullying and intimidating staff has been sacked following an internal hearing.
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Sound advice: ultrasound checks for pregnant women
One or more ultrsound checks are now routine in pregnancy. The Royal College of Radiologists guidelines say these are useful because they provide information about the expected date of delivery and multiple pregnancies, but they admit the scientific basis remains controversial.2
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Advantage in early discharge
Early discharge after surgery for breast cancer could be recommended for patients with support at home as new evidence shows this has no adverse physical or psychological effects.
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Cancer and heart disease are preventable - and both are amenable to public health action
Cancer and heart disease are indeed diseases of old age, as Steve Ainsworth suggests, but he seems unaware they are both preventable and amenable to public health action. Such action is ultimately about political change outwith healthcare systems.
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Leadership academy seeks rise in standards
Plans to set up a 'leadership academy' aimed at raising standards of management across all NHS professions are being considered by the NHS Executive and the NHS Confederation.
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'Weak' managers failed abused elderly patients
Health secretary Frank Dobson has 'utterly condemned' standards of care and 'weak management' detailed in a report about a hospital in his constituency.
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Managers say 2000 bug is a problem solved
NHS managers regard the millennium computer bug as a problem largely solved, according to the NHS Confederation's latest audit of its membership.
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1999 start-date for CHI looks doubtful
Doubts are emerging that the Commission for Health Improvement, the government's key quality body, will be set up this year as promised in The New NHS white paper.
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Private work nets £288m for trusts
The NHS is continuing to win business from the private healthcare sector, according to the latest Fitzhugh Directory of NHS Trusts.
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Steep rise in NHS dentists earning more than £200,000
The number of dentists earning more than £200,000 a year from the NHS has increased dramatically.
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Such an old story
From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45
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monitor
Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...
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Making a point:
Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...
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Making their marker
Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.
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Key points
An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.
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Key points
The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.
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