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Union blasts PFI firm over shifts
The company running non- clinical services at the country's first private finance initiative hospital has been accused of scrapping 'family friendly' shift patterns and forcing 40 cleaners into taking redundancy.
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Bed spread
The government is to invest £900m in intermediate care ser v ices des igned to keep o lder peop le out of hospital. Liverpool already has experience of using nursing home beds as alternatives to hospital care. The city has a large independent nursing home sector and, against a background ...
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Caring for older people An assessment of community care in the 1990s By Linda Bauld, John Chesterman, Bleddyn Davies, Ken Judge, Roshni Mangalore Ashgate 408 pages £49.95
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Payout packages attacked by MSPs
Scottish opposition parties have attacked the £2.8m paid in early retirement packages to senior NHS managers as part of trust restructuring.
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Appeal Court ruling creates new anomaly in care charging
An Appeal Court ruling has created a further anomaly in care charging policies, while raising concerns that the cost will force cuts in mental health services.
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Lottery preferred to extra taxes to aid NHS
A MORI poll has shown limited support for increased taxes to support the NHS. Of a sample of 2,014 adults questioned, 74 per cent said the National Lottery was their prefered option for additional funds, while 42 per cent supported diverting money from other areas of government spending and a ...
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Rich countries fail to respond to Africa appeals
Wealthy nations are failing to support World Health Organisation appeals for emergency health programmes in countries hit by war, population displacement and natural disaster, according to WHO figures. Five out of 21 appeals issued through the United Nations this year have failed to attract any support and four have achieved ...
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Acute pressure begins to build as Hutt issues winter advice
Welsh trusts were running at full capacity last week as guidance aimed at relieving acute pressures next winter was issued by health secretary Jane Hutt.
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Action promised as LAS admits failure to meet modest targets
London Ambulance Service trust has promised action after admitting that it has failed to meet 'even modest performance targets' and cannot always provide a clinically safe service.
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Strike action to be stepped up
Unison members have voted to escalate strike action at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust in a dispute over a private finance initiative deal.Almost 600 mainly ancillary staff, who went on strike for 48 hours last week against transfer out of the NHS, have voted for seven-day strike action.
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A glimpse of Patientville 2001
One of the most frustrating things about being a member of a modernisation action team was being sworn to secrecy about our discussions until after the NHS plan was published. Even more frustrating was knowing we had no control whatsoever over what went into the plan - that was for ...
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£2m allotted to promote pre-school programmes
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has allocated £2m to get the Sure Start programme underway.The programme, already running in other parts of the UK, is intended to promote the development of pre-school children, focusing on deprived areas. Ms de Brun said some areas of particular need had not ...
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Tayside finds way to cut £6.3m from debt
Cash-strapped Tayside University Hospitals trust has agreed a package of measures to reduce its deficit by £6.3m a year to balance the books by the end of March 2002.
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Wordperfect
A hand reaches out to touch one of 10 panels carved by Rebecca Walls for West Dorset Hospitals trust to celebrate the millennium.
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Testing positive
NHS chief executives rushed to read the NHS plan as it was published on the Internet, before giving HSJ their first reactions
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Trading places
The idea that nurses could retrain to be doctors might have been unthinkable at one time. But the national plan includes provision for nurses to retrain mid-career without starting from scratch. Some have already made the switch. Janet Snell reports