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Can pay, won't pay Who will pick up The Working Time Directive tab? Not us, say agencies
Someone, somewhere has to pay for the Working Time Directive. Alas, many of the staffing agencies on which the NHS relies so heavily appear to have decided that it won't be them (see News, page ?).
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Agencies cash-in on working time limit
The NHS is facing a bill of at least 100m as employment agencies seek to exploit nursing shortages and the new European working time directive to drive up the costs of hiring agency staff.
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Royal College threatens A&E closure in Manchester
An accident and emergency department is threatened with closure after a critical report from the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Partnership in Action proposals
More joint working at strategic planning, service commissioning and service provision level closely monitored through either the Commission for Health Improvement, the Social Services Inspectorate or the Audit Commission, with joint national priorities and national performance frameworks.
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Delegates may have worried about the future of managers in the reforms. But one a more local issue they were absolutely clear. The merger between their two organisations was widely welcomed.
The new Institute of Healthcare Management will bring together both the old Institute of Health Services Management and the Association of Managers in General Practice.
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Milburn finds 9m for PCG recruitment
Primary care groups have won a 9.1m cash boost to recruit board members and staff before they start running in April next year.
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22 October 1948
The numbers of nurses and domestic staff have been rising. Full-time nursing and midwifery staff in hospitals in England and Wales have increased by 2,000 in 12 months. Last June the total was 117,741 compared with 115,529 a year earlier. Part-timers over the same period rose by nearly 7,000 to ...
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Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.
She had a dig at public health minister Tessa Jowell's alleged vanity - 'now I could understand it if she had my good looks'.
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Fraud costs vulnerable people 1m a year
At least 1,500 elderly and vulnerable people are being defrauded of up to 1m each year by people, including nursing home staff, who are trusted to take over their financial affairs.
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NHS Direct 'will need 15,000 more nurses'
The new deadline of December 2000 for extending NHS Direct, the government's nurse-led telephone helpline throughout England is 'challenging but feasible' according to one of the scheme's advisers.
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Through the round window
Seven-year-old Sam Hodgkins tries out a new children's waiting area in the accident and emergency department of St James's Hospital in Leeds. The £75,000 children's room, opened officially last week, was funded by the hospital's special trustees, and includes a fish tank and videos as well as toys and games.
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Pool position
The national priorities guidance sets targets for joint working. Joint funding proposals were spelt out last month in a consultation document, Partnership in Action.
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SNP: still no policies
The Scottish National Party listened to healthcare staff, patients and pressure groups at its 'people's assembly', but with elections to the Scottish parliament approaching, it is yet to create a health policy of its own. Barbara Millar reports
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Phoney wars
A landmark ruling in GPs' long battle to be paid for telephone advice could cost health authorities thousands of pounds. But the claims should never have been made, argues Steve Ainsworth
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Party pieces
Ms Widdecombe emphasised that the Conservatives were still some way off a new health policy. But she placed some important markers to guide her party's thinking.
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Save-our-hospital types giving you a tough time? Just point 'em in Monitor's direction. The Save Bart's campaigners were so incensed by an item about their attempt to bag a bit of free publicity during the NHS 50th anniversary Songs of Praise programme that they took HSJ to the Press Complaints ...
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Leading lights
Conservative Party leader William Hague admitted in his keynote address to the conference: 'We have a lot of work to do on health.' Picking up on the themes of Ms Widdecombe's speech, he said: 'The NHS doesn't belong to the Labour Party, it belongs to the people of Britain. We ...