All News articles – Page 2292
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Communicating flaws
The London Ambulance Service is linking up with a telephone interpreting line in a bid to improve its work with ethnic minorities. Anna Minton reports
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Winning the day
Scotland has improved its day surgery performance, and even convinced sceptical GPs. Barbara Millar reports
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PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh
Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unhealthy fears from the 1950s to the 1990s
Moral panics By Kenneth Thompson Routledge 142 pages 10.99
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Advice on unravelling primary care funding
Practice finance Your questions answered By John Dean Radcliffe 145 pages 16.50
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'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 ...
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.