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In person
Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust has appointed John Boyington (above) as chief executive. A general and psychiatric nurse, he has been on secondment to the top post at the trust for the past six months and has been formally appointed to take charge until decisions are made about a merger ...
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Nursing regulations 'must protect the public'
Radical suggestions for changing the way in which nurses, midwives and health visitors are regulated have been set out in a report commissioned by the four UK health departments.
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Monitor
It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...
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Safety measures
A survey of medium-secure units for mentally disordered patients reveals wide variations in staff-to-patient ratios. James Rooney considers the implications
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Pilots need a soft landing
'There is now an enthusiasm in the NHS for joint work with other agencies where at times in the past there was little more than trepidation and distrust'
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Key Points
By establishing separate timetables for senior house officers and registrars, an obstetrics and gynaecology department has been able to reduce out-of-hours work while offering training relevant to the doctors' proposed careers.
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Key Points
More than 20 years after the publication of the Butler report which led to the establishment of medium-secure units, many of its recommendations have not been implemented.
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How Tony's welfare roadshow packs a punch BY MICHAEL WHITE
Shortly before Christmas I heard from a forceful woman lobbyist of my acquaintance for the first times in ages. She was outraged that Customs & Excise had quietly slipped VAT back on categories of incontinence products which had escaped from the taxman's grip via a court ruling under the wicked ...
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In sickness, not in health
Which NHS staff group smokes the most, and which drinks the least? And why are sickness absence rates so high? Mark Crail reports on a Health Education Authority survey
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Mental health in Scotland is still institution-based
Scottish adult mental health services are still largely based in hospitals, according to an Accounts Commission for Scotland study.
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Head start
Pharmacists in one city are being allowed to prescribe head lice treatments. Pat Healy asks whether the idea will catch on
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Welsh NHS will not go same way as England
Differences between the direction of the NHS in Wales and England are expected to be unveiled today with the publication of the white paper on the future of the Welsh NHS.
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EMPLOYERS MUST PLAY A ROLE IN TRAINING
I read with interest Professor David Cox's letter (6 November). As vice-chair of the West Yorkshire education and training consortium, I am proud that it works extremely well in education commissioning and collaborative working.
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YES, VAT IS A PROBLEM FOR PFI SCHEMES, BUT IS THERE A RISK OF THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?
Hugh Love (Letters, 4 December) is right to raise the problematic issue of VAT and its effect on affordability in private finance initiative schemes.
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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson chats to patient Jean Boyle after officially opening Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's pounds1m critical care unit last week. Because of funding problems, the eight-bed unit has been running half-empty since it started accepting patients 18 months ago. The four intensive care beds at the unit have already ...
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Measures will help NHS fraud crack-down
Health authorities will be given access to GPs' accounts so they can investigate suspected fraud more easily, health minister Alan Milburn has announced.
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Hospital project is 'proof' of new co-operation in NHS
An agreement between a health board and two trusts to build a new children's hospital in Scotland was hailed last week as proof of a new climate of co-operation in the NHS.