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Investigation launched after elderly deaths
An investigation into the care of elderly people at Gosport War Memorial Hospital has been launched by the Commission for Health Improvement following the deaths of two patients in 1998.
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CHI highlights star-rating disparity
Stark contradictions between the new star-ratings measure of a trust's performance and the Commission for Health Improvement's evaluation were highlighted last week with the report of a favourable clinical governance review of no-star Ashford and St Peter's Hospital trust.
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'Positive outcome' may put end to medical secretaries' strike threat
The threat of industrial action in the medical secretaries' long-running pay and grading dispute appears to be receding as negotiations continue with trust managers this week.
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Milburn unveils his vision for a competitive future
A competitive market in healthcare provision, where patients are able to choose the hospital they wish to be treated in, and extra money and further freedoms to develop services flow to the best hospitals, was unveiled by health secretary Alan Milburn last week.
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Days like this
NewsGeneral election health policy. . . AIDS cash misused. . . DoH's inferior statistics. . . BUPA bids to stop the rot
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Home bounties
News: The South East may be affluent, but its bed-blocking problems are so severe that they are jeopardising service delivery across the region. Alison Moore meets the man charged with arguing a difficult case
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Blanket coverage
News: When senior social services managers and councillors met at the ADSS social services conference in Harrogate, bed-blocking was the topic of the day. Tash Shifrin was there
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Bed-blocking: views from the conference
News: The scale of the problem in 'hot spot' Birmingham, where about 350 people are waiting for discharge from hospital, has hit the headlines repeatedly.