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Charters to lay down long-term care standards
Local housing, health and social services bodies will be required to co-operate in drawing up joint charters setting out local standards on long-term care under draft government guidance published this week.
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Frank discussion:
Patricia Moberly, chair of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust, chats to health secretary Frank Dobson and Professor Mike Richards during a ministerial visit to St Thomas' Hospital.
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Birthday conference cost IHSM dear
The Institute of Health Services Management has collapsed into the second worst deficit in its history thanks largely to last year's financially disastrous NHS 50th birthday conference, according to figures released this week.
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Crisis trust's non-execs get sack
A community trust has lost its entire non-executive board following the intervention of health secretary Frank Dobson in a long-running boardroom feud.
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Rock-a-bye
Jenny Hope (left), midwifery manager at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, helps Nichola Brown with her newborn son, David, and an elevating cot designed to help disabled parents care for their children. Ms Hope designed the cot in consultation with occupational therapists Mandy Whalley and Gaynor Reid after a disability audit ...
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HAs press for guidelines as refugees move to join families
The government is being pressed to issue new guidance to health authorities and other agencies as Kosovar refugees airlifted to northern cities drift south to join family and friends.
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Patients sent to private hospital face ops after eye injection error
An independent inquiry has been set up to investigate how 19 patients came to be injected with a potentially blinding solution at a private hospital as part of a blitz on NHS waiting lists.
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Mystery as chief resigns
A Birmingham trust chief executive has resigned 'out of the blue' - prompting questions from unions.
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Government under pressure to publish delayed PFI review
A Labour MP opposed to the private finance initiative has tabled a series of parliamentary questions to flush out the government's promised PFI review.
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13th hospital deal signed
A deal giving the go-ahead for a £67m, 347-bed hospital for Bishop Auckland, County Durham, has been signed at 10 Downing Street. It will be the 13th major hospital built under the PFI scheme.
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Coventry plan is sent to Dobson
A £200m private finance initiative scheme to build a new hospital in Coventry has been referred to health secretary Frank Dobson by the community health council.
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Campaigners win council seats
Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster General Hospital being downgraded have won 11 seats in local council elections.
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Unions furious as trust cuts nurses' pay award
Nursing unions have been angered by a Glasgow trust's attempt to claw back part of its nurses' pay.
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Days like this
Fears over executive members... White paper response divides... Ads 'broke conventions'... GPs' contract rebellion... Clarke's Euro defeat...
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Not as bad as it looks: the accounts
At first sight, the confederation's accounts look disastrous: turnover appears to have plummeted, with management costs soaring as virtually all other activity comes to a halt (see table, below).