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King's Fund director believes 'rationing is inevitable'
King's Fund director of policy and development Angela Coulter was due to tell an international conference today that 'rationing is inevitable' and politicians 'must take a lead and stop pretending that the NHS can meet all demands'. She was also due to tell the Priorities in Healthcare conference that the ...
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Report blasts 'failure' of Health of the Nation
Ministers have received a damning report on the 'failure' of the former Conservative government's Health of the Nation programme.
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Review bodies told to be 'fair'
NHS pay review bodies must stand up to the government and recommend inflation-busting pay rises for doctors and nurses, unions said last week.
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In brief: Civil litigation rules
Civil litigation rules provide for defendants who want to settle a claim to pay money into court.
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In brief: Unison
Unison has welcomed the introduction of the European working time directive, which limits the hours staff can work. But the NHS Executive is still talking to unions about the regulations and says human resources managers should wait until guidance is issued later this month before making changes to staff rotas.
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In brief: Sam Galbraith
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith this week pledged an extra £338,000 for GP outof-hours services in response to the conclusions of a working group on current practice. It found that co-operatives were seen as a positive development by GPs and patients.
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In brief: NHS
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has opened a £600,000 intensive care unit at Lister Hospital, Hertfordshire. The old ICU has been turned into a high dependency unit.
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In brief: Duchess of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester has formally opened Hove's Polyclinic, a centre for outpatient services, and Mill View Hospital, for people with mental health problems. The £11m developments by South Downs Health trust opened to patients earlier this year.
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In brief: Sexual Orientation
Gay and lesbian doctors should have the opportunity to be open about their sexuality at work, according to guidance from the British Medical Association, which urges employers to tackle discrimination.
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In brief: Three-month consultatio
A three-month consultation has started on proposals to create two new trusts - one for community services and one for mental health services - across Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. Four existing trusts are affected.
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RNIB hits out at cataract waiting list 'lottery'
The Royal National Institute for the Blind has condemned the 'lottery' of waiting times for cataract surgery. The RNIB says analysis of NHS figures shows the average waiting time for surgery is 20 weeks, but people living in Newcastle upon Tyne wait for an average of just 12 weeks while ...
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Survey uncovers disabled children's unfit housing
Poor housing is making life harder for disabled children and adding to the burden of parents who care for them, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has concluded. The study of 200 families in Yorkshire and north east England found three out of four had homes that were in ...
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Chips with everything
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bug imbroglio, IT managers are now being asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell
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Counter claims
Remuneration for community pharmacists needs an overhaul. But meanwhile price-fixing on branded drugs must remain, argue John Varnish and colleagues
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It's cold outside
The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there
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Neglect 'contributed' to pensioner's hospital death
A coroner has condemned a London hospital's alleged failure to examine an emergency patient for two-and-a-half hours and described claims that a nursing sister tried to cover up the blunder as 'inexcusable and reprehensible'. St Pancras coroner Stephen Chan heard last week that 89-year-old Albert Range was admitted to the ...
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Penetrating the corridors of power
NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.
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Spinal injection damage 'was not negligence'
Sometimes medical treatment goes seriously wrong for reasons nobody can explain. Patients in these cases are apt to reach for their lawyers, and legal advisers to seize on the legal maxim res ipsa loquitur - 'the thing speaks for itself '. In effect, they argue, no healthy person who goes ...