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UKCC demands tougher line on imposter nurses
Nursing's regulatory body is calling for more punitive legal sanctions against imposters who pose as qualified nurses.
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New pay system 'could cut managers' earning power'
An overhaul of the senior managers' pay system being introduced next month is premature and could cut individuals' earning potential, Unison and the Institute of Health Services Management have warned.
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Curbs fall on fundholders' spending as scheme folds
New fundholder regulations have effectively put health authorities on notice to prevent a spending spree by GPs before the scheme ends in April 1999.
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Cruel illusions of progress
The reception given to the government's public health strategy green paper has, in marked contrast to The New NHS white paper, been rather muted. Perhaps things would have been different if, as originally intended, the green paper had preceded the white. As it is, the NHS agenda has assumed supremacy. ...
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Identity crises
Imposters posing as nurses or other professionals put patients at risk, but trusts have a poor record of checking job applicants' registrations. Pat Healy reports
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Tory fight to save community units
In the wake of their failed assault on Labour's supposed manipulation of NHS board appointments, the Tories are massing for another attack: on the threatened closure of community hospitals.
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Weaknesses at LAS might have caused death
Weaknesses in the leadership, management, discipline and organisational structure of the London ambulance service may have been responsible for the behaviour of a crew that refused to take a dying man to hospital, according to an independent panel.
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Private cash plan for health centres
Redevelopment schemes for up to 30 health centres could be 'batched' together into single private finance initiative deals in an attempt to boost private sector investment outside the acute hospital sector, health minister Alan Milburn revealed last week.
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Budding relationship
Assertive outreach has been touted as the saviour of community care. Dolly Chadda visited the Tulip project to find out how it works
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In Brief: Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is out of control in at least 20 countries and poor management programmes are allowing drug-resistant forms of the disease to emerge, the World Health Organisation warned last week. Cases have risen by 13 per cent worldwide since WHO declared TB a 'global emergency' in 1993.
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In Brief: Medact
The lives of 21 million African children could be saved by the year 2000 if developing world debt was cancelled and the money diverted to healthcare and poverty reduction, campaigning organisation Medact has claimed. It is now urging health professionals to support a campaign to get unpayable debt cancelled, focusing ...
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In Brief: The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has appointed a new chief executive. Phil Gray, labour relations director at the Royal College of Nursing, will take up the post left vacant when Paul Lambden resigned amid controversy about an after dinner speech he gave in October. Mr Gray was CSP industrial relations ...
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In Brief: Central Council for Nursing
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is to launch a study into the demands placed on nurses in the prison and secure mental health services .
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In Brief: Medical Defence Union
The number of claims against the Medical Defence Union rose by 15 per cent last year. The largest award paid out by the MDU on behalf of a GP was £1.15m, compared with £2.4m the previous year, according to MDU figures released last week.
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Langlands blames Nichol for Read codes fiasco
Appointing James Read head of an NHS computer centre while his company had monopoly rights to distribute the centre's products was 'a mistake', NHS chief executive Alan Langlands said this week.
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The chance we've been waiting for
Last week the government announced a £500m Budget increase aimed at cutting NHS waiting lists to below 1.16 million by April 1999. Both prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Frank Dobson have made clear this is the NHS's highest priority for the coming year.