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Short Cuts: UKCC welcomes DoH poor performance proposals
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has welcomed the Department of Health's proposals on poor clinical performance. But the response to Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients questions how proposed assessment and support centres would work in practice, and particularly how they would link with current regulatory processes. ...
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Short Cuts: Welsh Assembly issues social exclusion indicators
The Welsh Assembly has published 50 indicators mapping social exclusion. The report illustrates that many factors are concentrated in the Valleys, but also shows social exclusion in other parts of the country in pockets of urban deprivation. The figures show that 10 per cent of adults in Wales reported being ...
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Short Cuts: Pensions Agency to contract out support services
The NHS Pensions Agency has announced plans to contract out support services in an effort to reduce administration costs. The agency says the proposals could ultimately generate savings of some £3m a year and 'make better use of new computer technology and the Internet'. The contract is likely to include ...
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£10m renal cash follows expose
London regional director Nigel Crisp is to enter emergency talks with the capital's top renal specialists, following a public exposure of the 'worsening crisis' facing their units by senior clinicians.
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Lighting up
Al Pacino stars as investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in the Oscar-nominated film The Insider, the true story of a US tobacco industry whistleblower. It had a special screening in Birmingham last Friday attended by more than 250 doctors, nurses and other health staff.
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Clinicians seek 'radical overhaul' of Scots NHS
The 'crisis' in the NHS in Scotland is worsening and will not be stopped without a 'radical overhaul' of healthcare delivery, senior clinicians warned this week.
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Deacon orders rethink of Arbuthnott funding plans
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has ordered the Arbuthnott steering group to produce new proposals after rejecting its original plans to change the way NHS funding is shared out.
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BMA hits out at 'frail' data in league tables
'The frail quality' of information in hospital league tables makes them of little use to patients, doctors or managers, the British Medical Association this week warned.
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Huge variation in availability of HA-funded abortions
Guidelines published this week on the use of abortions have flagged up variations in availability which mean that 90 per cent of procedures are funded by just 19 health authorities in England and Wales.
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Days like this
Party bias 'rife' in appointments. . . Eric Caines is personnel director. . . Scottish Office sends in team of six. . . Priority services 'underfunded'. . .
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Doc around the clock
The future of out-of-hours medical care, now under government scrutiny, has many potential scenarios - and most seem to involve NHS Direct, writes Alison Moore
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Boyle's law
The man in charge of implementing Alan Milburn's heart disease framework says he will achieve his aims by charm rather than brute force. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Sticky concoction
The first 17 PCTs - due to start in a fortnight - are putting together their plans, while ministers firm up accountability arrangements.But doesn't it all taste a little of fudge, wonders Lynn Eaton
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Conflict of interest
The armed forces medical service faces the same staffing problems as the NHS - and the two are even competing for the same people, writes Patrick Butler
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Press ahead without me
In his first speech since announcing his resignation, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands emphasised the pressures on health service managers, increasingly in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. Paul Stephenson reports
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Non-execs too important to be ministers' appointees
Politicians of all hues cannot resist temptation to favour party faithful
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WEB WATCH
'It's the biggest job in London. You choose who gets it, ' run the huge advertisements cluttering up the capital's billboards and bus stops. It is the job of the metropolis' first directly elected mayor - and, with due apologies to the vast majority of readers living outside the circle ...