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Dumped organs claims 'unfounded'
An inquiry into allegations that a hospital threw away children's organs with rubbish has found them to be 'completely unfounded'.
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Chief resigns from mistreatment scandal trust
The chief executive of a trust at the centre of the Commission for Health Improvement's first 'hit squad' investigation has tendered his resignation.
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Milburn invited to explain reason for scrapping CHCs
Croydon community health council has invited health secretary Alan Milburn and junior health minster Gisela Stuart to its next meeting to 'explain the thinking behind the NHS plan' and in particular 'the intention to abolish CHCs'. The CHC hopes to persuade at least a senior civil servant to attend. Meanwhile, ...
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Intermediate care model 'more expensive'
An evalutation of an intermediate care unit at Southampton General Hospital has found that the model is more expensive than acute hospital care and produces no added benefits for patients.
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High Caesarean rates at hospital raises concerns
Southern health and social services council has raised concerns about Caesarean section rates at Craigavon Area Hospital after conducting research about women's experiences of giving birth at the unit. Between June and September last year, the Caesarean rate was 27 per cent - between 8 and 9 per cent higher ...
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On the buses: what staff want
In South West region, a taskforce led by Julie Burgess, director of nursing at North Bristol trust, was established to help trusts meet the new standard.
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Reforms built into third wave of PMS
The government has incorporated key elements of the NHS plan into contracts for the third wave of personal medical services pilots.
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In brief: Medical Protection Society
The Medical Protection Society and a private hospital settled a claim over inadequate post-operative monitoring for £250,000, only to see the claimant die just two months after the settlement was agreed. The money, most of it earmarked for her future care and modifications to her home, has gone to her ...
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In brief: Health partners
The Local Government Association has written to all local authorities with a five- point plan that urges them to work with 'health partners' to develop effective, yearlong strategies to improve social care for older people and eradicate bed-blocking.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched a 'national plan for pharmacy', promising that by 2004 prescriptions will be routinely issued by e-mail, NHS Direct will send callers to pharmacies if appropriate and to improve use of an 'action team' for medicines.
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In brief: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
More than 9.5 million people cannot afford to keep their homes decently heated,4 million cannot afford fresh fruit and vegetables or two meals a day, and 6.5 million cannot afford a warm, waterproof coat a major study of poverty by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has established.
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In brief: NHS counter-fraud
Contact details for information about training in NHS counter-fraud were given incorrectly in 'Cut to the Chase' (news focus, page 12,31 August).Training manager David Snell can be reached on 01189-505669 or e-mail David.Snell@cfos. nhs. uk The modular course referred to leads to an accredited counter- fraud specialist qualification, compulsory for ...
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Longstanding BMA secretary to be Scottish chief medical officer
The new chief medical officer for Scotland will be Dr Mac Armstrong, secretary of the British Medical Association since 1993.
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A little bit of horse sense
War wounds were compared and farmyard analogies coined at a joint health and local government conference on inspections. Alex Klaushofer listened in
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Called to the bench
By the end of the year all mental health trusts must be part of a benchmarking group. Twenty-six inner city trusts came together to work towards this goal.Peter Clarke and Tom McCarthy report
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Prostate cancer research programme to begin
Health secretary Alan Milburn has increased funding for prostate cancer research as part of a new NHS prostate cancer programme. The Department of Health will be directly funding £1.2m of research this year, rising to £4.2m by 2003-04.
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Bastards let us down: NHS Direct bidder
The main rivals for the software contract to complete the roll-out of NHS Direct have reacted bitterly to news that French insurance company Axa Assistance has won the £68m-a-year deal.
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Picking up the pieces - BAMM case studies
Case 1.'I think you've got a problem here' A medical director and BAMM member got a call from a trust chief executive who had concerns about a clinician's performance.He drove 300 miles on a Sunday, and spent hours that evening ploughing through case notes.