All Health Service Journal articles in 29 October 2007 – Page 2

  • News

    Night-time accidents total 140,000

    2007-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Last year, 140,000 cases of slips, trips and medical errors happened at night to patients receiving NHS care, a new survey claims.

  • News

    Increased infection risk for homeless drug users

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    A report from the Health Protection Agency shows that around three-quarters of injecting drug users have been homeless at some point.

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    New contract for industry-sponsored trials

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has introduced a new single research contract called the contract research organisation model clinical trial agreement. It is designed to speed up the contracting process for industry-sponsored trials.

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    Out-of-hours care 'inflexible'

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Out-of-hours care for acutely ill people is largely inadequate and inflexible, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians.

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    GPs back practice-based commissioning

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    New data on practice-based commissioning from the Department of Health claims that 57 per cent of GPs are supportive of PBC as a policy. A further 22 per cent are neutral and 8 per cent strongly oppose the policy.The results of the survey also show that 31 per cent said ...

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    HPV immunisation programme announced

    2007-10-29T00:00:00Z

    A human papilloma virus (HPV) immunisation programme to routinely vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against cervical cancer will begin in September 2008.