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Patients misled as poorly designed hospitals fail PEAT cleanliness tests
Reports from patient environment action teams may be misleading the public into believing hospitals are dirty when in fact they are just old or have poor signposting, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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The tides they are a changing
Governments are constrained by the dominant ideas and beliefs of their day. To change politicians and move in a new direction, one has to set about altering the climate of opinion in which they and the world operate.
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There is the catch
Measures to improve relations between the NHS and the prison service are hampered by a suspicion that prison healthcare is not exactly a priority, writes Ann McGauran
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Closure of HIV unit as cases soar
An independent centre for HIV and AIDS care has announced a series of redundancies and closures in the same week that the Public Health Laboratory Service predicted that the number of new diagnoses looks set to rise again.
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Cancer screening: technology is there, but the money is not
Screening programmes usually focus on our nether parts: the colon and the prostate. We hear little about the lung. Mindful of progress in screening technology, Malcolm Dalrymple-Hay and Nigel Drury of Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre have used the January edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to ponder ...
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Revalidation: which camp are you in?
Spotlight on General Practice By Sally Irvine and Hilary Haman Radcliffe Medical Press 222 pages £18. 95
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In brief
Only one in five trusts believe they will meet government 'zero tolerance'targets of reducing violence against staff by 20 per cent before April, while reports of violence against NHS employees have gone up by 22 per cent, according to a Health Service Report. Most trusts use CCTV and security guards ...
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Breast-screening unit target of fourth inquiry
A radiology department which has already been the subject of three separate inquiries into mismanagement is to be the subject of yet another inquiry, this time into its breast-screening unit.
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Councils'overspend blamed on rising cost of children's services
Increased spending on children's services is the most significant single contributor towards a £205m overspend by councils, a survey has revealed.
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Benchmarking exercise heralds 'big leap forward' for pay system
Staff organisations have hailed a benchmarking exercise beginning this week as the 'first really concrete leap forward' in introducing a new pay system for the NHS.
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McLeish vows 'no backsliding'on free care
Scottish first minister Henry McLeish has confirmed his intention to make personal care as well as nursing care free for people in nursing and residential homes, as recommended by the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care.
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NI fundholding axe delayed
GP fundholding will not be abolished in Northern Ireland until at least April 2002, after the Northern Ireland Assembly voted to accept an amendment to the Health and Personal Social Services Bill calling for a delay.
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Labour's deal: an at-a-glance guide to the Scottish solution
Susan Deacon's original proposals:
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RCN's bid for healthcare assistants
The RCN's decision to open up its membership to healthcare assistants could see the biggest shake-up in the health trade-union movement in a decade. The controversial proposal was overwhelmingly carried by the annual general meeting in October. But it is strongly opposed by a minority.
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Staff consulted before trust appoints new chief
One of the four Birmingham trusts which had been without a leader has appointed a new chief executive following a process of consultation with staff. University Hospital Birmingham trust has appointed Mark Britnell, the trust's director of operations, who had been acting chief executive since the departure of Dr Jonathan ...
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Of mice and moose: a gut feeling over antibiotics out in the field
The bacteriology of moose, deer and bank voles is not a topic often mentioned in the pages of HSJ. When I tell you that a study from rural Finland reported in Nature (4 January) has shown that gut bacteria from the faeces of all three species are almost completely devoid ...