All News articles – Page 1893
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Blair's PFI 'commitment'is attacked by Unison
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis has launched a stinging attack on the government's 'senseless commitment to privatisation' in the NHS.
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BMA under attack from consultants
The Hospital Consultants' and Specialists' Association has attacked the British Medical Association over negotiations for a new consultants' contract, and suggested that hospital consultants could begin working to contract.
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Welsh Assembly launches nurse education plans
The Welsh Assembly has launched its strategy for education for nursing, midwifery and health visiting.Creating the Potential is the result of more than two years'work and involved interviews with 5,000 nurses, health visitors, midwives and members of the public. It is intended to set out how training and education should ...
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Think-tank argues for more flexible funding models
An NHS funded entirely through taxation is a 'quaint oddity', according to a report from the Adam Smith Institute.It argues that people should be able to pay the same NHS tax contributions into a number of social insurance funds of their own choice, which would buy in healthcare services for ...
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Major NHS plan areas at risk as HAs 'raid' heart and cancer cash
Some of the government's top priorities under the NHS plan could be in jeopardy because of the higher-than-expected costs of pay awards and National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance.
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Shrinking violets need not apply
Being a member of CHI's clinical governance review team is not for the faint-hearted. Ann McGauran reports
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Share alike
A rehabilitation unit for older people has flourished under the cross-fertilisation of ideas since responsibility for managing it was put in the hands of people from different professional backgrounds. Beth Powney and colleagues report
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Age discrimination pledge may reignite debate on rationing
The government's pledge to end age discrimination in NHS services will reignite the debate on rationing and could even prompt a 'backlash' as younger patients lose ground to elderly people, it has been claimed.
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A&E wait times 'can't be blamed on winter'
Waiting times in accident and emergency departments across the UK show 'significant pockets of very, very long waits' that cannot be blamed on winter pressures, according to figures from a snapshot survey.
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Medical students tell of pressure to act unethically
Nearly half of medical students have been put under pressure to behave unethically in a clinical situation, according to a study of final year students at Toronto University medical school in Canada.Sixty-one per cent had also witnessed a clinical teacher acting unethically.The categories of ethically problematic situations were: conflict between ...
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Push me, pull you
Hospitals and universities have a long history of interdependence, but the mutual trust this relies on is in danger of disappearing.Tom Smith says it is time to stop them moving apart
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monitor
A picture can tell a thousand words, or so Monitor was told. And John Bacon, top dog for London, has already provided glorious pictorial moments. What with the resemblance to rentaquote professor David Hunter and almost every famous Scouser, sometimes it is hard to know when to stop. And the ...
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Manager suspended over stripper can resume work
Wigton Community Hospital manager Mary Carruthers, suspended in December after a male stripper performed in a ward of elderly patients, has been told she can return to work.A disciplinary hearing at North Lakeland Healthcare trust, where Mrs Carruthers was represented by the Royal College of Nursing, resulted in a decision ...
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They were the weakest link
Once they were formidable figures, working close alongside ministers, but their increasing irrelevance led to their inevitable demise.Joan Higgins charts the rise and fall of regional chairs