All Clinical Leaders articles – Page 103
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Unite opens NHS pay ballot
Union Unite today began balloting NHS members on the current three-year pay deal. The ballot will ask 100,000 members if they are prepared to take industrial action, including strike action, in protest at the pay deal.
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Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births
Maternity services faced growing pressure on capacity and staff last year despite government commitments to improve safety and choice.Newly released reports from regional midwifery officers show midwife numbers in many areas failed to keep up with the rising birth rate in 2007-08.
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Mark Goldman on a happy ending for NHS top-ups
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. Once upon a time there was an elusive apostrophe. He lived in the NHS and was always causing mischief with his friend 'patients'. Together they would hide from the managers and clinicians.
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Scotland unveils cancer care plan
The Scottish government has published an action plan for improving cancer care and support.
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NHS rationing: the time of their lives
An ageing population means the question of whether some patients have more right to treatment than others will increasingly cause financial and moral conflicts. So whose quality-adjusted life year is it anyway, asks Alison Moore
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NHS absence from individual budget trials was 'missed opportunity'
The failure to involve the NHS in individual budget pilots was a 'missed opportunity' and deeply regretted by the social services staff who took part.
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Academic health science centre race begins
Trusts hoping to form academic health science centres have been set a January deadline for applications.
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Angioplasty to be primary heart attack treatment
NHS commissioners have been asked to develop a national network of cardiology services capable of delivering primary angioplasty as the main treatment for heart attacks.
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Hygiene problems will be no bar to registration with Care Quality Commission
Trusts will be allowed to register with the Care Quality Commission even if poor hygiene is putting patients at 'significant risk'.
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Junior doctors need better supervision
Hospitals are relying too heavily on unsupervised trainee doctors for procedures that could be carried out by non-medical staff, according to the incoming chair of the postgraduate medical education training board.
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Nigel Edwards on NHS exceptional case panels
Over the summer no media report on the state of the NHS was complete without mention of the postcode lottery in treatments, either through challenges to primary care trust exceptional case panels or the perceived ethics of the current rules on top-ups.
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Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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Dying: open debate on the last taboo
Dying is a part of the life cycle yet many health professionals are afraid to discuss it. We must start talking about this if we are to give patients the best chance of a good death
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New formula spells end for minimum practice income guarantee
GPs and NHS Employers have agreed a formula that could phase out the minimum practice income guarantee. The guarantee has been strongly criticised, as it means GP practices suffer no financial penalty if patients choose to go elsewhere.
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Michael White on keeping patients out of hospital
It is not often you read of a new controversy in the Sunday papers and stumble on what looks like the answer in Hansard before bedtime. It happened this week. Here goes.
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Patient and public involvement leads to satisfaction
The draft NHS constitution has stirred only apathy in many quarters.
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David Levy on world class commissioning's training implications
World class commissioning has already had a significant impact on primary care trusts and their development.
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Protecting patients' mealtimes
Around 28 per cent of patients in hospital are considered at risk of malnutrition, and the risk is most pronounced in elderly patients with declining mental function. Kathie Paling explains how a Royal College of Nursing leadership programme helped her improve the nutritional status of patients on her ward
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Rooting out health service CV cheats
Fake CVs are a problem in the NHS. But, unlike Alan Sugar, the service cannot afford to ignore it, says legal expert Philip Farrar
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Super trusts: unite and conquer
Five of the country's top performers are banding together to gain international renown for their research and healthcare. Will these new supercentres lead to competition or collaboration in their pursuit of glory? Ann McGauran finds out