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In Brief: Lincolnshire health authority
A new strategy developed by Lincolnshire health authority and Lincolnshire county council for people with learning disabilities will lead to the closure of Mulberry trust, Sleaford, next year. Contracts for services provided by the trust will be given to a number of alternative providers if the move is agreed after ...
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In Brief: Bedfordshire health authority
A coalition of health and voluntary groups this week launched a campaign to fight £6m of cuts proposed by Bedfordshire health authority over the next three years. The coalition includes local branches of Unison, the Royal College of Nursing, the British Medical Association, the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association ...
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Power of London
If Londoners vote 'yes' to a mayor, the capital's NHS may be finally united. Mark Crail reports
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Sick and tired of the NHS
Stress and rising workloads are blamed for above-average sickness absence in the NHS's own workforce. Mark Crail looks at who needs time off and why
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Serving time
Is the NHS ready to take on prison healthcare? Patrick Butler reports on the current debate
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Local colour
Tessa Jowell's white paper will be different from her green paper, she promised the Association for Public Health. Barbara Millar reports
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The wrong target
The government's pledge to cut numbers on the waiting list by 100,000 is almost certain to fail. And it's the time they have to wait, not the numbers on the list, that patients care about. Richard Hamblin and colleagues explain
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Bad vibrations
Attempts to abolish RSI as an umbrella term and instead define a series of disorders with specific diagnoses could have a significant impact on the management of occupational health both here and in the US, where RSI accounts for more than half of all rep
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Langlands blames Nichol for Read codes fiasco
Appointing James Read head of an NHS computer centre while his company had monopoly rights to distribute the centre's products was 'a mistake', NHS chief executive Alan Langlands said this week.
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Each HISS 'to lose average £2m in lifetime'
Even the most successful hospital information support systems (HISS) are set to lose an average of £2m each over their 10-year lifetimes, according to an NHS Executive-commissioned report.
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Direct action
Health minister Baroness Jay receives advice from nurse Joanne Wersell (centre, wearing headset) and staff from Lancashire Ambulance Service trust.
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In Brief: Public health action plan for Wales
A public health action plan is being developed for Wales and should be issued this autumn, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths said last week. The plan will include targets to improve children's health services.
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In Brief: Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is out of control in at least 20 countries and poor management programmes are allowing drug-resistant forms of the disease to emerge, the World Health Organisation warned last week. Cases have risen by 13 per cent worldwide since WHO declared TB a 'global emergency' in 1993.
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In Brief: Medact
The lives of 21 million African children could be saved by the year 2000 if developing world debt was cancelled and the money diverted to healthcare and poverty reduction, campaigning organisation Medact has claimed. It is now urging health professionals to support a campaign to get unpayable debt cancelled, focusing ...
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In Brief: The Association for the Prevention of Addiction
A drugs agency has claimed help for addicts should be targeted at older teenagers after a survey identified a 'seven-year gulf' between users starting on drugs and seeking help. The Association for the Prevention of Addiction, which relaunched this week as Addaction, found that, on average, users start taking drugs ...
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In Brief: The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has appointed a new chief executive. Phil Gray, labour relations director at the Royal College of Nursing, will take up the post left vacant when Paul Lambden resigned amid controversy about an after dinner speech he gave in October. Mr Gray was CSP industrial relations ...
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Private cash plan for health centres
Redevelopment schemes for up to 30 health centres could be 'batched' together into single private finance initiative deals in an attempt to boost private sector investment outside the acute hospital sector, health minister Alan Milburn revealed last week.
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Economics guru urges Labour to scrap PFI
New Labour economics guru and Observer editor Will Hutton has urged the government to scrap the private finance initiative.
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GMC finds fatal heart op doctor guilty
A consultant who carried out a fatal heart procedure on a six-year-old girl has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct for acting without her parents' consent.
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Calls for urgent action over sickness levels
A wide-ranging coalition of management and staff organisations has called for 'urgent and compassionate action' to tackle 'worrying' levels of sickness among NHS employees.