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Short cuts Jowell promotes 'double Dutch' sexual health
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has urged public health campaigners to promote 'double Dutch' in sexual health campaigns. Trailing 'the UK's first government strategy on sexual health' last week, she said encouraging the use of a barrier method of contraception and a hormonal contraceptive would 'help protect against both sexually ...
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PCGs: unnatural creatures
Though primary care groups may be based on 'natural communities', they are not natural organisations, Sir Duncan says.
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Cottage hospital wins reprieve
A cottage hospital earmarked for closure has been granted a reprieve by proposals to cut costs through pooling health and social service budgets.
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Private contractors tighten hold on hospital food
Hospital food is increasingly provided by private contractors, a survey of the catering industry shows.
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Short cuts Hospital considers electronic tagging for patients
A Newcastle hospital is thinking of electronically tagging its patients, following the death of Abram Walker, 66, who was found dead in a corridor 10 hours after he disappeared. The Royal Victoria Infirmary is considering proposals to introduce magnetic locks and swipe-card access to doors on a number of wards ...
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Quarter of PCGs start without a chief executive
One primary care group in four will go live today without a chief executive in post, an HSJ survey has revealed.
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Cash-strapped HA under fire over HIV cutbacks
A health authority facing a £1.5m funding shortfall has been attacked for threatening to cut spending on HIV and AIDS.
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Intensive care doctors warn of non-payment by private insurers
Doctors running NHS intensive care units have expressed growing concern that private insurers are refusing to pick up the tab for patients transferred from the private sector.
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'Tell private hospitals' call
NHS managers have been urged to tell private hospitals when they strike off a consultant.
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Fizzing and buzzing with ideas
Alan Carpenter strongly believes his sideways move into the chief executive's job at Somerset Coast PCG is the way forward.
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Quarter of GPs have not planned for millennium bug
An NHS Executive survey has revealed that at least 25 per cent of GPs have made no plans to make their practice systems year 2000 compliant. 'We are getting quite concerned about this, especially as the real figure is probably a lot higher,' said a spokeswoman. A health service circular, ...
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Bristol inquiry hears 'enforcement vacuum' evidence
The Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry has heard evidence of a 'vacuum in relation to the enforcement of standards relating to paediatric cardiac services'.