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In Brief: Not recalling information pack
The NHS Executive is not recalling an information pack for potential NHS board members (news, page 2, 11 November) that includes incorrect job descriptions for primary care trust board members. It will be issuing corrective guidance in December.
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HAs will have powers to suspend doctors in performance reforms
Health authorities will be given the power to suspend incompetent GPs as part of a government drive against poorly performing doctors.
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Life's a beach
Eweka Azubuike tries out a sandpit at the New River Green Early Years Centre on the Marquess Estate in Islington, north London, watched by health minister John Hutton, her father Chieda Azubuike, and centre management committee chair Sandra Lawrence.
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Results of public consultation are widely ignored
Few public bodies actually use the results of public consultation to inform decisions about changing services, according to a study published yesterday by the Audit Commission.
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Waiting lists are 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable'
Waiting lists provide an 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable' method of rationing care and should be scrapped, according to the King's Fund.
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Outpatient appointments stretch to four years
Latest research by the College of Health says patients are being forced to wait as long as four years for an outpatient appointment.
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Private health row after OFT probe
A row over private medical insurance network schemes has flared up again following an Office of Fair Trading investigation that cleared BUPA and PPP Healthcare of anti-competitive behaviour.
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Heat is on government over long-term care
The chair of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care is to meet health secretary Alan Milburn to press for an urgent answer to its call for free personal care for elderly people.
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Quality of life 'central'
The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance has called for quality of life for people with long-term conditions to be a 'central plank' of the government's work on greater social inclusion.
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£20m blow forces recovery plan on HA and six PCGs
A London health authority, six primary care groups and two hospitals have been forced to draw up a recovery plan to cope with deficits and a loss of funding totalling £20m.
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems hit out over 'sneaking rationing into NICE'
The government has been accused of 'sneaking rationing' into the remit of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris condemned the government's 'dishonesty' in amending the statutory instrument establishing NICE. The first draft of the instrument says NICE 'shall perform such functions in accordance with ...
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Short Cuts: Stroke Association warning coincides with inquiry
The Stroke Association is planning to highlight the link between smoking and stroke as the Commons health select committee starts its inquiry into the tobacco industry and the health risks of smoking today. The Stroke Association says stroke costs the NHS and social services £2.3bn a year, with about a ...
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Short Cuts: BMA describes plans for asylum seekers as 'failure'
The British Medical Association has added its voice to criticism of the government's plans to disperse asylum seekers across the country. It says that although the plans could be implemented as early as next month, health authorities in the proposed cluster areas have not been consulted, informed or helped to ...
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Short Cuts: Law brings Food Standards Agency a step nearer
Legislation paving the way for the new Food Standards Agency received royal assent last week.
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Short Cuts: New panel will advise ministers on drug advertising
An independent panel has been created to advise the Medicines Control Agency on drug advertising. Junior health minister Lord Hunt said the three-member panel would advise ministers when drug companies challenged MCA decisions, and provide the industry with a mechanism for obtaining 'transparent and independent' reviews of such decisions. It ...
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Washing up
A nurse takes part in hand hygiene week, an initiative by Leeds health organisations to persuade healthcare staff and the public to help control infection by frequent and thorough hand washing. It follows a study that found 89 per cent of healthcare workers failed to wash every part of their ...
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Inquiry finds elderly people need surgery without delays
The NHS should offer a 24-hour guarantee to elderly patients needing urgent surgery, national watchdogs have warned.
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HEA urges youths to 'be prepared' for millennium sexual climax
The Health Education Authority has launched a campaign to try to persuade young people to stock up on contraceptives ahead of the millennium.
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Days like this
NHS HQ moves to Leeds. . . Concerns at timetable for reform. . .RCN tells managers to mind their language. . . AIDS campaign delay. . .
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'Prudence, don't leave me'
The chancellor's lady friend will be upset by predictions that the brave new NHS reforms will bring soaring deficits, writes Mark Gould