All News articles – Page 2010
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Trust's sick-leave memo leads to accusations of 'bullying tactics'
A trust has sent memos to domestic staff and porters about the 'cost to the department' of taking as little as one day's sick leave, leading to accusations that it is victimising some of its lowest paid staff.
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CHI boosts communications for abuse investigation
Further details have been issued of the Commission for Health Improvement's investigation of North Lakeland Healthcare trust, ordered by health secretary Alan Milburn in the wake of a report detailing abuse of elderly patients with mental health problems. A five-strong team has been appointed and CHI has announced it intends ...
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£320m hospital scheme stalls over bed cuts
One of the largest hospital building schemes in the NHS appears to have stalled amid concerns over bed numbers.
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Troubleshooter blasts HA for failure to tackle £20m deficit
A damning report on West Sussex health authority says it has failed to provide strategic leadership or implement the government's modernisation agenda.
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WEB WATCH
What a bunch of clever clogs they are down at the Department of Health.NHSnet fell over, companies worldwide had to close down their computer systems, and even the US National Security Agency suffered a security breach.But apparently the DoH had no problems at all with the 'love bug'.
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Room on top
A construction worker watches as Northallerton Healthcare trust expands its ward accommodation at Friarage Hospital. A modu lar construction method is be ing used to reduce build ing time from 12 months to 26 weeks.
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ROM with a view
Reconfiguring health services A practical guide for managers Principal author Shirley Ann O'Hara Emap Public Sector Management 128 pages (plus CD-ROM) £85
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Sitting pretty
GPs are subjected to violence, rudeness and anti-social behaviour almost every week.Yet few practices have a policy on removing patients. Sally Young and Relton Cummings report
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in person
Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.
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'Sick' Marathon man is suspended by trust
A nursing director who ran in the London Marathon while on extended sick-leave has been suspended by his trust.
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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Trusting to luck
A review of health improvement programmes found a wealth of priorities reflecting national policy.But measurable targets were very thin on the ground.Stephen Abbott and Steve Gillam report
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Late tackle
The government wants NHS staff to help in the fight against crime.But there are misgivings that such collaboration will undermine patient confidentiality. Lynn Eaton reports
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Hot stuff
Lord Hunt has his temperature taken alongside Jasmin Khatun, a pupil at Birmingham's Oldknow primary school, during a visit to celebrate Nurses Day.The junior health minister also filled in a worksheet on the human body and learned to take his pulse.A number of trusts organised visits to schools to tell ...