All articles by Ann McGauran – Page 4
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Cancer snapshot 'falsely positive'
The NHS organisations chosen by the Commission for Health Improvement to provide a 'snapshot' of progress in reforming cancer services may offer a falsely positive picture, an HSJ survey has found.
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Breaking the cycle
Some brave souls are arguing that a future petrol blockade could be just the impetus the NHS needs to rethink its attitude to environmental issues. Ann McGauran reports
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Keeping 'em keen?
Are primary care professionals suffering from post-NHS plan tension? Health minister John Denham warned members of the NHS Alliance about this new syndrome. Ann McGauran reports
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Primary care chiefs say pivotal problem in sector is low morale
Primary care leaders have warned ministers that they will need to provide more money and tackle low morale as part of a full-scale review of the primary care sector.
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Crisp takes reins with 'patient centred' vow
The new chief executive of the NHS has laid out his vision of a patient-centred service forged through links with key stakeholders.
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£6. 3m deficit-trust's board 'was warned'of cash crisis
A leaked report into England's highest trust deficit has concluded that danger signals pointing to the trust's impending financial crisis were 'not hidden'from its management board.
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Blanket opposition to team bonus schemes
NHS unions and employers may have clashed over the scale of this year's pay settlement, but they appear united in their lack of enthusiasm for the team bonuses due to be piloted next year.
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A long-day's journey into night
Personnel issues are dominated by the implications of the NHS plan. Delegates at AHHRM's annual conference thrashed out the crucial points. Ann McGauran reports from Dublin
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Fast and loose
As the third wave of PMS pilots gets on its way, doctors'leaders are complaining that their advice has not been heeded in drafting the new contracts. Ann McGauran reports
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Employers and unions at odds in final submissions to pay bodies
Employers and unions were set for a head-on collision over pay as the last submissions to the NHS pay review bodies were handed in this week.
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MP goes to war over 'unsafe'hospital huts
An MP is highlighting the 'unsafe' condition of Second World War huts at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a renewed bid to have them replaced by purpose-built facilities.
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Services 'will go down the tubes in NI if system is not improved'
Health provision will 'go down the tubes' in Northern Ireland unless a better system is set up, a leading doctor has warned.
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HA board could face 'coup' by community
Lincolnshire health authority leaders who faced a referendum calling for them to stand down are now being threatened with a 'coup' by community-nominated replacements.
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Doctors strengthen NHS plan opposition
GPs and hospital doctors have repeated and strengthened their opposition to key elements of the government's NHS plan.
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Piping cold
The new law - and trusts' own policies - to protect whistleblowers is yet to make an impact, and some staff groups may be loath to use them, writes Ann McGauran
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What a nasty complaint
Changes to contracts, guaranteed appointment times, too few extra doctors. . .GPs are getting down to some serious grumbling on the extra pressures they say the NHS plan will bring to the profession. Ann McGauran reports
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MP demands public probe into drinking water over fear of cancer/chlorine link nking water over
The government is being urged to launch a public health probe into possible links between chlorinated tap water, cancer and problems in pregnancy.
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Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m
The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.
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Concerns for NHSnet as e-mail law threatens patients' privacy
Health leaders have warned that patient confidentiality may be seriously undermined by government plans to allow the security services to monitor Internet traffic and intercept private e-mails.