All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 56
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College calls for extra staff for home births
Trusts must recruit more midwives to meet the Department of Health's promise to let women choose a home birth by 2009, the Royal College of Midwives has warned.
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NHS leaders singled out for birthday honours
A number of senior managers and leaders in the health service have been recognised in the Queen's birthday honours.
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Michael White on the Mental Health Bill
If the purpose of the bill is to improve supervised community treatment and to strengthen protection of the public where there is risk of violence, then vulnerable people must surely be encouraged to seek help - not to hide themselves away.
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New bill to boost London mayor's health remit
A new bill working through Parliament will give extra powers to the London mayor to support the delivery of better public health in the capital.
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Mental Health Bill campaigners rue 'missed opportunity'
Campaigners have hailed the passing of the Mental Health Bill as a 'missed opportunity'.
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SHA kicks off engagement bid
Internet forums for managers and doctors are to be set up by NHS North West as part of its attempt to achieve 'world-class' clinical engagement.
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UK healthcare ranked best value for money
The NHS has been ranked the best in the English-speaking world.
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Porritt berates NHS over slow progress on sustainable future
The NHS is moving at an 'incredibly sluggish and inadequate pace' to becoming sustainable and environmentally sound, green campaigner Jonathan Porritt has warned.
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Workers set to benefit from trust pay blow
A trust has been forced to boost the wages of its maintenance staff in a landmark case affecting nearly 10,000 workers across the country.
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Gill Morgan on believing in the NHS
'The greatest advocates for the NHS are GP receptionists while the worst are GPs. This is about culture, not money'
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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LINks face uphill battle on recruitment
Local involvement networks will struggle to recruit members, patient and public involvement forums have warned.
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Trust fights on in battle to expose 'mole'
An NHS trust's seven-and-a-half-year legal fight to uncover the mole who leaked details of Moors Murderer Ian Brady's treatment while on hunger strike is to continue, despite estimated costs of over £1m.
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'Balance right' on revised mental health bill
The government is digging its heels in over the Lords' amendments to the Mental Health Bill.
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Hewitt vows to end mental health 'bail-outs'
Patricia Hewitt has pledged that mental health trusts will no longer have to 'bail out the overspenders' in the acute sector.
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Revealed: what makes doctors go bad
Ninety per cent of badly performing doctors have a 'learning deficit', new research into their behaviour concludes.
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Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up
Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Baby Boomers strain services
The pressure of an ageing population will compel governments around the world to change the funding of public services, according to a new study from consultants Deloitte.
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.