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Trainee specialists doubt future of NHS
A British Medical Association survey shows that one in four specialist trainee doctors is worried about the impact on their training of government plans to treat more patients outside hospital.Research in the Postgraduate Medical Journalshows that many doctors are anxious about changes to their ...
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Legal briefing: why mental health reforms will create a dual regulatory system
Service providers need to prepare for with changing mental health legislation
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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US best practice on diabetes care
Knowledge gained from a Health Foundation fellowship trip to the US is being brought into play in Bolton
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DoH publishes pharmacy contract review
The DoH has published its review of contractual arrangements in the retail pharmaceutical sector and the impact of reforms to the 'control of entry' system.The review found that the market has been opened up by the reforms and that twice as many pharmacies opened in 2005-06 than in any year ...
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Dentistry services on the increase
The amount of dental services commissioned by the NHS is continuing to rise, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health.The figures also show that since the new dental contract was introduced last April, more services have been recommissioned than were lost in rejected contracts by dentists.Read the ...
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Anti-smoking drug licensed in Scotland
The Scottish Medicines Consortium has licensed the drug Champix for people wanting to give up smoking.It is the first drug to be used to help smokers quit without the use of nicotine.Champix, the generic name of which is varenicline tartrate, provides relief from symptoms by sending a signal to nicotine ...
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Top eye hospital to open site in Dubai
One of Britain's top eye hospitals is to open a branch in Dubai to help pay off debts of around £13m.Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust is offering consultants attractive pay packages to tempt them into working at the new hospital which will be known as Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai.The hospital ...
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Stephen Thornton on shared leadership
'Changing people's behaviour when they have been in the same job for years is one of the hardest things to do. Safer patient initiative teams now think less in terms of 'why won't he do that for me?' and more in terms of 'how can I get him to do ...
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Campaign to bring cold comfort for older people
The Department of Health is using tomorrow's St Hilary's day - the coldest day of the year, according to folklore - to raise the profile of its Keep Warm Keep Well campaign. It offers advice to older people, disabled people, those on low incomes and anyone else who needs it ...
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Nurse wins eight-year legal battle
Nurse Gloria Urquhart will receive more than £70,000 from NHS Fife after winning an eight-year legal wrangle following a fall at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, in 1998. Ms Urquhart fell heavily when a bed moved as she was lifting a patient.Staff had previously reported problems with the beds but it ...
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Leicester chief to go private
Leicestershire Partnership trust chief executive Professor Maggie Cork is to leave the NHS after 20 years to join Four Seasons Health Care as managing director of its Huntercombe Group subsidiary specialised services division for conditions such as mental health and addictions, physical and neurodisabilities, brain injury rehabilitation and children's services.
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Mental health spending must rise, warns Sainsbury Centre
Spending on mental health services should increase by 50 per cent and 38 per cent more staff are needed if the government is to meet 2000's 10-year national service framework plan, according to a report from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.The report, Delivering ...
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Multimedia advice pioneers wanted
The Department of Health and NHS Direct are calling for primary care trusts to come forward to bid to become the the early adopter for a new NHS Health Direct service to provide multimedia advice supporting personal health improvement. The internet, digital television and mobile phone service was proposed in ...
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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War on fraud saves £800m
The Department of Health says that an extra £811m has been saved by tackling fraud in the NHS over the last seven years.The NHS Counter Fraud Service performance statistics for 1999-2006 show that fraud committed by patients has fallen by 55 per cent from £171m in 1998 to £76m in ...
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Safety changes 'neglected by GPs'
Reforms to improve the quality and safety of NHS care are not hitting home in GP surgeries, says a report from the National Audit Office.It says many GPs have not implemented 'clinical governance' systems found elsewhere in the health service.While the report found that primary care trusts had made substantial ...
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Exclusive: Memo says NHS will not meet MRSA target next year - or possibly ever
The NHS is not on track to hit the April 2008 MRSA target - and the government's own experts believe the goal of halving the incidence of infection from its 2004 rate may never be achieved.
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C. difficile 'endemic in health service'
The infection Clostridium difficile is now 'endemic throughout the health service, with virtually all trusts reporting cases', a leaked Department of Health memo has warned.