All News articles – Page 2279
-
News
Transfers to NHS from jail 'too slow'
The chief inspector of prisons has alerted home secretary Jack Straw to 'totally unacceptable' delays in transferring mentally ill prisoners from Long Lartin jail to the NHS.
-
News
Mis-sold pensions settled 'speedily'
Unions have welcomed the 'pretty speedy' progress finally being made in resolving the personal pensions mis-selling scandal that hit tens of thousands of NHS staff in the 1980s.
-
News
Tight timing for PCG start
Health authorities have been given a tight timetable for getting the first piece of the primary care group funding jigsaw in place.
-
News
Unhealthy fears from the 1950s to the 1990s
Moral panics By Kenneth Thompson Routledge 142 pages 10.99
-
News
Debunking the magic 21bn
A Department of Health press release on 29 July announced the funding of 'assertive outreach teams' to care more efficiently for mentally ill people in the community.
-
News
36.6% applying to medicine are ethnic minorities
The number of ethnic minority candidates trying to become doctors and dentists is greater than their proportion in the community, statistics released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service last week show.
-
News
Cornish rescue plan demands 4m savings
Managers have been told to come up with new initiatives to save 4m as a result of health secretary Frank Dobson's decision to save four Cornish community hospitals.
-
News
New ACHCEW director sets out her stall with 'adapt or die' ultimatum
The incoming director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales has issued an ultimatum to CHCs: adapt or die.
-
News
Campaigners claim ageing is an 'achievement'
Britain's ageing population should not be viewed as a problem but as 'one of the major achievements of the 20th century', says a report from the Continuing Care Conference.
-
News
Advice on unravelling primary care funding
Practice finance Your questions answered By John Dean Radcliffe 145 pages 16.50
-
News
'Shotgun affair' is a grossly wrong portrayal
David Crosby's provocative letter about your News Focus on integrated healthcare (letters, 4 June), clearly demands a response. I was at the conference referred to. Mr Crosby's representation of Iain Chalmers as 'acting as a catalyst for a shotgun affair' between orthodox and complementary medicine is grossly wrong. Your article ...
-
News
Surgeon off duty after phone row
A Welsh trust has suspended a consultant surgeon after she smashed a telephone against a wall. Janet Higgs claims the incident happened on 27 July because she was frustrated at not being able to operate on a patient.
-
News
Animals and healthcare through the ages
The use of animals in therapeutic programmes is an ancient practice, first recorded in 9th century Belgium, when disabled people were allowed to care for animals in the belief that it would 're-establish the harmony of soul and body'.
-
News
New Alzheimer's care
Our report on Alzheimer's disease (News, page 4, 9 July) aims to provide a base for thinking about improvements in care.
-
News
MPs 'appalled' by slow response to IT bug danger
An influential Commons committee has said it was 'astonished' and 'appalled' by the health service's response to the year 2000 computer software problem.
-
News
Patients Association says doctors must explain the reasons...
I was very disappointed by the tone of Steve Ainsworth's article ('Omission to explain', page 27, 30 July) arguing that GPs should not need to give patients reasons for removal from their lists.
-
News
...while others have been campaigning on GP registration for years and want to see the figures
Community health councils have been campaigning about GP registration for 25 years. This year's focus is on information about the number of patients removed from GP lists. The structured publication of the numbers nationally is important.
-
News
The evidence on complementary medicine could challenge old beliefs
I was disappointed to read David Crosby's attack on complementary medicine (Letters, 30 July). It is inaccurate to suggest that all complementary therapies are untested or untestable. Therapies that have been extensively researched include acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic approaches, all of which are being increasingly integrated alongside orthodox medicine.