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Complaints 'upsetting'
Campaigners against abuse by doctors, nurses and counsellors have attacked 'punitive and distressing complaints procedures' in the NHS and social services.
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Dispute ends in union re-recognition deal
One of the most bitter and lengthy industrial relations stand- offs in the NHS has been resolved after Northumbria Ambulance trust agreed to sign a recognition deal with Unison.
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Teenage mothers not 'from deprived group of myth'
Teenage mothers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and are not the deprived group of popular mythology, researchers argued last week. A Policy Studies Institute report, published days after former prime minister Baroness Thatcher launched an attack on single parents, says young mothers 'should not be stigmatised' and calls ...
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Dobson pushes for more rehabilitation
Health secretary Frank Dobson last week called for higher priority for rehabilitation services to stop illness and injury leading to permanent disablement.
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In the firing line
Decades of service to the NHS are no longer any protection against redundancy. And many managers feel they have been poorly treated in the process. Barbara Millar reports.
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Unions will scrutinise PFI firms' track record
Health minister Alan Milburn has issued details of a 'three-point plan' to 'better protect staff' involved in private finance initiative projects.
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Health visitors scoop modernisation fund grant
Health visitors have won 1m from the NHS modernisation fund to develop new ways of working. Public health minister Tessa Jowell said the health visitors' share of the 5bn pot would be used to 'build practice on the clear evidence of what works'. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine ...
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Opportunities knock
If the NHS really is an equal opportunities employer, surely it is unnecessary to say so in job advertisements, argues Steve Ainsworth
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Redundancy
In 22 years' work in human resources, Ian Chalmers has been made redundant four times. Three of those occasions came when he was working for private sector companies. He has also seen his employment in the NHS threatened twice by organisational change.
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Shift workers
The debate about power, responsibility and accountability between chief executives and consultants has been raging ever since the changes in the structure and organisation of the NHS first carried out in response to the Girths reforms in the late 1980s. The new doctrine of clinical governance will effect a fundamental ...
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Toolkit
A toolkit to help managers and clinicians work more effectively together to meet clinical governance requirements has been launched at a conference by the Institute of Health Services Management. It will be published in December after feedback from the launch and will cost 25 to non-members and 20 to members.
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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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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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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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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 ...