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'Whole-systems' approach urged to solve chaos in rehab services
Rehabilitation services for older people are patchy and poorly co-ordinated, even though they can cut costs and reduce the number of emergency admissions, the Audit Commission says in a report published yesterday.
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Ambulance head dismisses SMPs' criticism as 'unfair'
The head of Scotland's ambulance service has rejected sharp criticism from the Scottish Parliament's audit committee.
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A Rubicon a day keeps Al's problems at bay
Iwas talking the other evening to a friend who is taking a new interest in health politics. What about the NHS making more use of the private sector, he asked. 'That's a Rubicon which Blair and Milburn are not keen to cross unless they have to, ' I explained. 'It's ...
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced a further 91 nurse consultant posts, taking the total number of 'supernurses' to almost 200, a third of whom specialise in critical care. The Royal College of Nursing called for further expansion.
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Patient group urges action to stop prison suicides
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has called on home secretary Jack Straw to take steps to cut 'the rising toll of prison suicides'. Chief inspector of prisons Sir David Ramsbotham has predicted there could be more than 100 suicides in prison this year. NSF chief executive Cliff Prior said there were ...
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Thousands from overseas accept UK job offers
The number of overseas-trained nurses and midwives coming to the UK to work has risen to record levels, according to figures from the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Provisional statistics show 7,361 nurses and midwives from abroad registered with the UKCC in the year to 31 ...
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No two ways about it
Labour needs to balance the health outcome and service delivery agendas in spending the modernisation money, argues Adrian Towse
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Responses to NHS consultation average £2.38 each
The government's £500,000 public consultation scheme in advance of next month's national plan has netted 210,000 responses - 150,000 from leaflets distributed in public places and just under 50,000 from leaflets sent to staff. More than 12 million leaflets were issued. People were asked for three ways of improving the ...
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Public enemy no 1
The General Medical Council is under attack now even from doctors. Kaye McIntosh soaks up the hostility at the LMC's annual conference
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Heaven can wait
Innovation? Give us more. Grand plan? Let's start tomorrow. The New Health Network conference was painfully on-message. Maura Thompson was there
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Members of the Oxfordshire inter-trust recruitment and retention group
Sharon Barrington Head of physiotherapy services, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Debbie Christian Professional development nurse, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre June Davies Chief dietitian, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Nettie Dearmun Principal lecturer/senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals/Oxford Brookes University Anona Glithero Senior nurse, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Claire Grout Continuing professional development pharmacist, Berkshire & Oxfordshire ...
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Seams good to us
Could the roles of hospital specialists and GPs be adapted to provide closer integration, better patient care and decreased waiting times? James Ward and Romesh Gupta report
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Going into labour
One of the authors of a major report on birth statistics has criticised the government's new systems for collecting health data. Janet Snell finds out why co-ordinating national health statistics is not child's play
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Two into one will go
Chief executives have been told that health secretary Alan Milburn has decided on a radical shake-up at the very top of the NHS. He is to appoint just one person to fill the shoes of both departing NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands and Department of Health permanent secretary Chris ...