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Rampton nurses may strike over new shift patterns
Nurses at Rampton Special Hospital have withdrawn goodwill and are to ballot on industrial action over new shift patterns which managers say would improve patient care.Around 700 members of the Prison Officers'Association are protesting at the change from working three 12.5-hour shifts a week to five shifts of 7.5 hours. ...
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Ruling will increase GMC workload
The General Medical Council, already beset by a large increase in complaints, lost a judicial review just before Christmas which will mean an even bigger workload in future.
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Trusts get green light to profit from own products
The NHS is to be able to to protect its intellectual property rights through the formation of companies to manufacture new health products. A clause in the Health and Social Care Bill will allow trusts to become shareholders in new companies to make and sell prducts which have been developed ...
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The foresight sagas
The weather affects patterns of sickness, so predicting it can help the health service plan for outbreaks of flu and other illnesses. Lynn Eaton reports
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Tears for fears
With chief executives running around in circles trying to meet the demands of the modernisation agenda, no wonder so many posts go unfilled. Laura Donnelly takes a reading of the top people's gloomometer
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Local strategic partnerships put future of HAZs in doubt
Health action zones could disappear with the government's announcement this week of new local strategic partnerships of public sector, private and community organisations.
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On the horns of a dilemma
Shared governance - a US term describing a process of involving staff at all levels in decision-making - could be one way of breaking the stand-off between nurses and managers.
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Food team digests local preferences
Plans for all hospitals to serve hot evening meals after 5.30pm have been watered down to reflect regional differences.
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Going to the devil
A significant proportion of managers are also nurses - but great suspicion still exists between the two groups.Andrew Cole delves into the background to the distrust
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Days like this
A survey of district general managers has found 78 per cent do not think the internal market reforms will tackle the NHS's funding problems,50 per cent say the reforms have diverted their energies from running the NHS and 25 per cent do not believe the changes will benefit patients.Philip Hunt, ...
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Experts query hospital rankings data
The launch of a consumer hospital guide ranking hospitals by death rates has sparked attacks on the quality of its data and the workload imposed on the NHS by private publishing company Dr Foster.
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Level crossings
Ever since Florence Nightingale arrived in the Crimea, nurses have been involved in managing health services. But these days nurses who take on managerial responsibility have a more ambiguous role.
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Wide open to criticism
Sometimes, it seems, managers go out of their way to live up to the stereotypes that nurses attach to them.
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Staffing crisis gives MSF second thoughts on public-private partnership for lab services
A decision on a public-private partnership for laboratory services in all trusts should be postponed for 'a couple of years' until staffing has stabilised, according to health union MSF.
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Confed's HR director in storm over working hours
Andrew Foster, human resources director of the NHS Confederation, is at the centre of a row with junior hospital doctors, who are furious at comments he made in the Financial Times, which implied that thousands of doctors were being deceitful about their hours of work. Mr Foster claimed that only ...
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Comedy of errors and misinformation
Management in Health Care By Neil Wheeler and Diana Grice Stanley Thornes 209 pages £19
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NHS claim record scrutinised
The questions of whether legal aid funds suitable cases, and of how well the NHS performs in defending and settling claims, should become clearer when the National Audit Office publishes a long-awaited report.