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Partnership is key to Scottish HR strategy
A partnership between government, managers, unions and staff must be forged to sweep away outdated attitudes and employment practices, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said last week.
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Hands of history?
Public health minister Tessa Jowell makes her mark as she formally launches the health action zone for Manchester, Salford and Trafford this week. She presents a display of handprints from local children whose health prospects will be a key focus for the HAZ. Work has started on the seven year ...
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In the frame of the law
Clinical governance will put chief executives in the firing line on medical issues. Pat Healy reports
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Finance managers: give us timetable for latest reforms
Finance managers have warned the government to get to grips with the process of implementing its NHS reforms before it is too late. They want a timetable by the end of the month, setting out the work needed to implement the white paper.
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Dying for a good meal?
The NHS serves 3 million meals a day - more than any other organisation in the UK, even McDonald's. But more than a third of hospital patients suffer from malnutrition. Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to improve standards
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GPs' leaders demand huge rise in medical students
GPs' leaders have urged the government to approve a massive increase in medical student numbers to help avert a 'crisis' in family doctor services.
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Ministers 'delayed food safety plans'
Measures to prevent food poisoning outbreaks of the sort which claimed 20 lives in Scotland in 1996 were held up for a year by infighting between ministers and their departments, a top public health expert has claimed.
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RCP warning on psychiatric unit crowding
Trusts are warned this week not to economise on inpatient psychiatric units by cramming too many patients into wards or by diluting the skill-mix of nursing staff.
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Horses for courses?
Who are the favourites to succeed Sir Kenneth Calman as chief medical officer? Barbara Millar reports on the best bets
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CHC to voice concerns over Lighthouse funding
Concerns about the way £1.7m of NHS funding for residential services was withdrawn from a leading centre for people with HIV and AIDS are to be raised with health secretary Frank Dobson.
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In Brief: E coli food poisoning
A public inquiry into the world's worst E coli food poisoning outbreak, which killed at least 20 people in central Scotland in 1996, has opened in Motherwell. Sheriff principal Graham Cox is expected to hear from 150 witnesses over the next three months.
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In Brief: Multiple Sclerosis Society
The Multiple Sclerosis Society this week pressed the government to give teeth to its white paper commitment to set national standards of healthcare. Until equitable guidelines are in place patients will continue to face 'the postcode lottery on new drug treatments and services' the society said. With the National Hospital ...
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In Brief: New Deal
The government will have to tackle the health problems facing many lone parents before it can help them back to work under the New Deal, a study suggests. It found that illness and disability among a 1991 sample of lone-parent families had doubled by 1995.
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In Brief: West Hertfordshire transport services
Four trusts say they have reached agreement on support services changes to free £1m for patient care in West Hertfordshire. Transport services and estates management will be provided by in-house teams while catering, cleaning and portering are set to go to Granada Healthcare.