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Staffing crisis looms at screening centres
Breast cancer screening services could be facing a staffing crisis as pressure grows to bring more women into the scheme.
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Case notes:
former United Bristol Healthcare trust chief executive John Roylance returns to the General Medical Council this week to hear submissions on whether the 'finding on the facts' against him and surgeons James Wisheart and Janardan Dhasmana in the Bristol baby deaths case amounts to professional misconduct.
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Low pay and poor working conditions, but the reward is helping to deliver high-quality care
While I agree with Simone Plaut's view (Letters, 4 June) that managerial, secretarial, financial and maintenance professionals in healthcare would not generally have a direct patient interaction role, I would point out that in the case of medical secretaries, it is highly likely that they will interact with patients frequently, ...
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MPs call for tobacco tax to fund cessation campaign
Senior backbench Labour MPs are calling for a windfall tax on tobacco companies to fund an anti-smoking campaign. They say the government should include the measure in its forthcoming white paper on smoking.
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Standing out from the bunch
Shadow health minister Alan Duncan may believe in the mass 'liquidation' of government, but claims the NHS should be spared. So what does he want to do with it, asks Patrick Butler
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'Tories failed to tackle POA bully-boy tactics'
Conservative health ministers showed 'political weakness' in failing to tackle the Prison Officers Association head-on over its role in the special hospitals, claim two former top managers.
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Building to scale
One of the new Primary Care Act pilot sites, Community Health Sheffield trust in partnership with a Sheffield inner city GP practice, is developing a 'salaried practice'. This raises several issues, including developing the GP salary scale, GPs' fears about their relationship with the trust, and concerns about management and ...
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Bug bust-up
Few trusts are prepared for dealing with the year 2000 bug. And most want more resources and more guidance from the centre. Peter Mitchell reports
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in brief
NHS chief executive Alan Langlands headed a long list of health service staff in the Queen's birthday honours. There were CBEs for North Thames regional director Ron Kerr and Northern and Yorkshire regional chair Zahida Manzoor, and OBEs for Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce and Bromley health ...
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Siemens Healthcare Services is conducting a 'full strategy review' of all its products, including the flagship Open-PAS patient administration system. A spokesperson said all aspects of the company's business operations were being examined by the new managing director, Robin Williams, who arrived in a shake-up last month. Siemens will announce ...
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IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week.
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The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service proposals
The SNBTS proposals, which are out for consultation until 26 August, involve a two-phase restructuring of services.
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'Reforms to blame' for upheaval in Scotland
Conflicting reforms are set to cause a major IT upheaval in Scotland's NHS, according to Unison.
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The change of career that's not as bizarre as it's made out to be
I have spent the past week pondering the bizarre career change I made 15 years ago.
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Inquiry begins as hopes for peace marred by suicide fear
A Belfast community trust has launched an inquiry into an increase in suicides among young people in the city, which some fear may have been prompted by moves towards ending the troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Dobson's making beds - but should he 'lie' on them?
It is rare - perhaps unprecedented in recent years - to witness a government announcement about opening NHS beds, certainly in such numbers as health secretary Frank Dobson boasted last week. The government's pounds500m fund to tackle waiting lists would pay for an extra 2,000 beds in England, he claimed, ...
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Laying to rest the question of funding - in beds for those in and outside Herefordshire
Your news story (page 7, 4 June) on Herefordshire Community Health trust's funding problems was largely accurate, but the health authority never expected the trust to run a new 32-bed hospital for the same money as an old 18-bed hospital.
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Sterile services strikers go back to work as trust drops sacking threat
The first major NHS strike since Labour came to power has been suspended amid allegations of 'bully-boy tactics' by University of Wales Hospital trust.
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Bad consultants face loss of merit awards
Hospital consultants who fail to meet new quality measures could have their merit awards withdrawn by the Commission for Health Improvement.
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Attracting more young GPs: successful schemes in County Durham and south London
County Durham has one of the oldest established schemes to attract young GPs. Now entering its third year, 'Career Start' has already offered 15 vocationally trained GPs the opportunity to sample work in general practice without making a life-long commitment to one surgery. Two have now taken up partnerships within ...