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In brief: Unison
Unison has called for London mayoral candidates to pledge themselves to its own 'manifesto' for public services in the capital.
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In brief: London Ambulance Service
London Ambulance Service trust has started two pilots for dispatching alternative response vehicles to routine maternity calls and non-urgent alarm-line calls. It receives 2,300 assistance-only and 7,800 routine maternity calls across London every year.
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In brief: Hospital chaplains
Hospital chaplains have rejected a three-year pay offer, with a 3. 25 per cent rise this year.
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In brief: NHS Information Authority
The NHS Information Authority has launched a service to help NHS-registered organisations to obtain patients' NHS numbers and administrative details. The first phase of the NHS Strategic Tracing Service builds on the existing Initial Tracing Service.
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In brief: Health service managers
Health service managers overwhelmingly back the idea of ending family doctors' independent contractor status, according to an HSJ website poll. By Tuesday lunchtime readers had voted 328 to 28 in favour of making NHS GPs salaried employees.
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Helpline given £1m to expand
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced a £1m expansion of the mental health work of NHS Direct.
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Fritchie calls for an end to local nominees on boards
Commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie has called for an end to local authority nominations for NHS chair and nonexecutive posts.
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Parents seek 'accountability' over Alder Hey organ scandal
Furious parents are demanding further action at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the chair was asked to leave last week.
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Sackings sparked by 'abuse' review
An external review of North Lakeland Healthcare trust has led to the sacking of its chair and the suspension of a number of senior managers.
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IT strategy defended after 'hiccup'
The billion-pound NHS IT strategy has been vigorously defended against accusations that it is failing to deliver results.
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Confidentiality body to advise Caldicott 'guardians'
A National Confidentiality and Security Advisory Body will be established to provide advice to local 'guardians' of patient confidentiality - appointed in the wake of the Caldicott report - and promote best practice on the confidentiality of patient information. It will also advise ministers and NHS bodies on a wide ...
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Birmingham HA chair opts to move closer to home
Bryan Stoten, the long-serving chair of Birmingham health authority, will take over as chair of Warwickshire HA on 1 April. Mr Stoten recently announced his intention to stand down from his present post, citing the government's stipulation that non-executives should live in the area served by their organisation. He has ...
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Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors
The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...
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Health minister launches trust's anti-violence policy
An anti-violence policy has been launched by junior health minister Gisela Stuart at Sandwell Healthcare trust, where 38 per cent of staff have been subjected to violence or aggression at work in the past 12 months. The policy, which is part of the government's zero-tolerance zone campaign, includes training for ...
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RCP reveals plans to gauge heart disease progress
The Royal College of Physicians this week unveiled plans to measure the progress of NHS services against the national service framework for coronary heart disease. The pilot scheme - funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will be rolled out to cover all acute hospitals offering cardiac services ...
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BMA hopeful of settlement to out-of-hours dispute
A resolution may be in sight to the long-running dispute between the government and junior doctors over payments for out-of-hours work. The British Medical Association's junior doctors committee has said a new deal negotiated with the Department of Health has 'sufficient merit' to be put to a referendum after a ...
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'Urgent' action demand by NAO as Welsh deficit reaches £80m
The financial performance of the NHS in Wales is continuing to deteriorate, with its underlying cumulative deficit set to rise to £80m by the end of the current financial year, according to the National Audit Office.
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CHC aids campaigners in banned petition row
Leicester community health council has joined the ongoing row over a 150,000-name petition protesting at plans to shake up services at the city's three major hospitals.
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LHGs will be given time to develop, says Hutt
Local health groups in Wales will be allowed to develop at a 'comfortable' pace, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt told a conference marking their first year of operation.
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Monitor
Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...