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High take-up for optician training
More than 90 per cent of opticians met the requirement for continuing education and training (CET) by the 31 December 2006 deadline.Final figures for the first cycle released by the General Optical Council show that 95 per cent of optometrists, 89 per cent of dispensing opticians and 86 per cent ...
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David Peat on lost baggage and fielding complaints
'I always try to acknowledge a complaint myself when it arrives on our doorstep, and I always sign off our response. It helps me keep in touch with patients' perceptions - their sense of grievance, injustice or perplexity.'
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Smarter prescribing could save millions
More efficient prescribing of generic statins rather than branded versions could save the NHS £85m a year, according to the Department of Health. Latest 'better care, better value' indicators found that the savings could be made if every primary care trust prescribed such drugs to the level achieved by the ...
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Health figures honoured
Christie Hospital trust chair Joan Higgins has been made a DBE in the New Year Honours list. NHS Confederation chair Peter Mount, former Greater Manchester strategic health authority chief executive Neil Goodwin, Royal College of Nursing president Roswyn Hakesley-Brown and health economist Anne Mills have been made CBEs.To see the ...
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'Hooked' stop smoking campaign launched
A campaign that shows people being seized by fish hooks and dragged to their smoking spots has been launched. The campaign, which includes TV adverts, outdoor advertising, direct mail and a dedicated website, reveals that the average smoker needs over 5,000 cigarettes a year.www.gosmokefree.co.uk/getunhooked
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Legal age to buy tobacco to rise
The legal minimum age to buy tobacco is to rise from 16 to 18 on 1 July. The move is intended to make it easier for retailers to spot under-age smokers and reduce the numbers of teenagers who smoke. A campaign to raise awareness of the change will be launched ...
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2007 a make or break year for NHS, says think tank
A failure to tackle rising costs and to invest in modern services means that 2007 is a make or break year for the NHS, according to a report by think tank Reform. The report says the service's long-term strength has been sapped by the lack of an underpinning costed reform ...
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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Lord Warner: PCT commissioning advert blunder 'only human'
Health minister Lord Warner has labelled his department's hurried withdrawal of an advertisement to contract out primary care trust management services as 'unfortunate' ' but stood by the government's assertion of the need to bring in private sector commissioning experience.
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Shortlist drawn up for NHS chief executive job
Shortlisting for the post of chief executive of the NHS is due to take place today.
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Directors resign as report finds 'many years' of abuse
People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in Cornwall, a joint investigation by the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in ...
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UCLH sells hospital for £170m
A London foundation trust says it has used its commercial freedoms to raise millions of extra pounds by selling off a former hospital building, which will help pay off its debts and may help improve services.
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Plans dropped to rate senior managers
Chief executive Anna Walker said the commission had spent months developing the indicators, which flag up leadership failures.
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Education hit hard by SHA cutbacks
University of West of England faces multi-million pound losses as course funding axed
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MP reignites Milburn row
An influential MP has called on the government to deliver on its promise to publish advice it sought on decisions made over the reconfiguration of primary care trusts.
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GPs close to winning choice on IT
Deal aims to end two-year dispute with doctors and boost clinical engagement
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Hewitt to review pharmacy regulation
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced a review of the way entry into the community pharmacy market is regulated, but said the government has got the system about right.
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Royal Cornwall chief quits as deficit doubles to £15.8m
The chief executive of a hospital trust has fallen on his sword after the trust's deficit was found to be twice what was originally claimed.
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Trust faces bill for dropped PFI deal
A £167m scheme to centralise a hospital trust's services on one site has been dropped at a likely cost of £10m. Essex Rivers Healthcare trust made because the decision because the opening of a new independent treatment centre would have made it unaffordable and because the plans did not align ...
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PCTs oppose Manchester maternity shake-up
Plans for a shake-up of children's and maternity services in Manchester are under fire because one corner of the city could be left without inpatient services.