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Hutt announces degree boon in midwifery courses
Half of entrants to midwifery courses in Wales can now undertake a degree programme, Welsh Assembly health and social services secretary Jane Hutt told the Welsh conference on nursing, midwifery and health visiting last week. Ms Hutt said that nursing, midwifery and health education represented the biggest single discipline in ...
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'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends
The NHS was taken off 'red alert' on Monday as fuel supplies started to return to normal following the blockade of oil refineries.
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Unto the breach brave Alan - with a red card
In between getting back from France with my tan intact - despite the 100 franc limit on purchases of you-know-what - and setting off for Charlie Kennedy's Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, I managed to dig out a reference which had been bugging me throughout the great fuel crisis and ...
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Consultants' plans aim to remove sting from curbs on nonNHS work
Consultants have reiterated their opposition to government plans to restrict their freedom to work in the private sector by issuing their own proposals to reform the consultant contract.
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Wales 'needs new priorities by 2002'
The NHS in Wales should move towards a 'transparent and consistent' system of prioritising patients based on clinical need, according to a report endorsed last week by the Welsh Assembly's health committee.
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In brief: Beacons 2000
Sixty-eight NHS organisations have been named 'Beacons 2000' by health secretary Alan Milburn. They join the existing 287 beacon sites and receive £15,000 each. Rampton Hospital's personality disorder service was named as a beacon for the treatment of the disorder in a scheme jointly sponsored by the Home Office.
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£100m dental strategy 'won't halt'private practice exodus
The government launched a £100m, two-year NHS dental strategy this week - but it will not stem the tide of dentists leaving the NHS for private practice, say dentists' leaders.
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Thetelling truth
The Shipman inquiry is to be held in public. But the truth, writes Sir Cecil Clothier, is more likely to come out in private
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Siren voices
London Ambulance Service, which handled over a million calls in the year to March 2000, is cautious about plans to establish links with NHS Direct.
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Schizophrenia
A number of non-pharmacological interventions for people with schizophrenia may reduce the risk of relapse and cut hospital admission rates. Paul Wilson, Clive Adams and Anne-Marie Bagnall report on current evidence
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Recruitment round-up
NHS recruitment and retention issues are in the news ahead of the publication of the nurses' evidence to their pay review body today and the TUC Congress in Glasgow.
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A question of trust
US doctors are advocating collective bargaining and unionisation in their latest battle with the health maintenance organisations, reports Howard Berliner
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monitor
Isn't the BMA great? It takes care of poor struggling doctors who wouldn't be able to look after themselves, and worries about wider issues too - like whether they are being paid enough, and whether the financial resources are in place and whether there is enough money being provided to ...
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IT looks like trouble
The NHS's approach to information technology is in the dock yet again with the news that new systems will be used for the roll-out of NHS Direct. Lynne Greenwood reports