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Violence at work affects one in five
Nearly one in five health workers has been the victim of violence in the past year, research has revealed.
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Review shows most people against limiting NHS
Most people in Britain oppose moves to limit the NHS to a 'safety-net service', according to a review published by the King's Fund.
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Transport guide aims to stall the car
A 'healthy transport toolkit' has been issued to trust and health authority chief executives in a bid to cut the number of NHS staff using cars to get to work.
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NHS audit move to Scottish parliament opposed
Scotland's Accounts Commission says proposals to transfer NHS auditing to the Scottish parliament's auditor general 'could create unnecessary disruption' and run counter to standards elsewhere in the UK. The commission is resisting plans put forward by the Financial Issues Advisory Group - set up to advise the government on issues ...
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Bristol baby deaths inquiry opens
The public inquiry into the Bristol heart babies tragedy opened on Tuesday with a preliminary hearing to establish its purpose and procedure and to consider applications for publicly funded legal representation.
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Winter pressure cash plea meets a cool response from Executive
The NHS Executive has responded coolly to calls for a regular cash injection to help trusts cope with steep rises in emergency cases over the winter months.
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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.