All News articles – Page 2314
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Psychiatry unit relocation plan a 'retrograde step'
A London health authority has been accused of planning to 'rebuild an asylum' by proposing to move a psychiatry unit from an acute to a community hospital.
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in person
Stephen Eames (above), chief executive of Havering Hospitals trust, has moved to a new job as project director for acute and specialist services in West Hertfordshire for a year. Mr Eames will take the role of chief executive of two trusts - St Albans and Hemel Hempstead and Mount Vernon ...
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Further signs that New Labour’s thought police have a tight grip on the health service emerged at a recent Northern and Yorkshire regional Institute of Health Services Management meeting. Among the speakers was NHS boss Alan Langlands, who once again poured forth about he how wanted everyone to be part ...
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King's new reign
The King's Fund is undergoing a massive shake-up as well as something of a slimming exercise. Pat Healy looks at the organisation that is emerging
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Paved with good intentions
The foundations of health action zones are set. It's now time to build local policies and structures. Lyn Whitfield reports
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The wait goes on
Latest figures suggest the continuous fall in long waits for hospital admission cannot be sustained. John Appleby reports
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What goes up. . .
MPs' inability to hold the NHS to account may be more of a problem than the 'democratic deficit'. Mark Crail reports
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Have they seen the future?
This week's announcement that 11 more hospitals have been approved under the private finance initiative is further proof that the government has succeeded in delivering a policy which defeated its predecessor (see News, page 3). Full marks to Frank Dobson and friends for consistency and integrity.
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A force to reckon with
The NHS's expanding workforce of healthcare assistants needs to be better valued and better regulated, says Janet Snell
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Light fantastic
Professor Marc Clement, dean of applied design and engineering at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, demonstrates a new laser treatment to restore the elasticity of burned skin. The treatment, developed in collaboration with Ruth Waters, a plastic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, warms collagen fibres, freeing scar tissue. ...
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Easter treat
Biker Dean Ashton hands over some of the hundreds of Easter eggs donated to the patients of Hull Royal Infirmary's paediatric ward after fundraising by a local bikers' club.
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Trust slams HA 'high-risk disruption' and unveils own rescue plan on Net
A trust which is using the Internet to fight for survival is pinning its hopes on a 'radical' new plan to preserve acute services at three hospitals.
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Mixed welcome for radical Welsh trust cuts proposals
Radical proposals to halve the number of trusts in Wales have been given a mixed reception by campaign groups.
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Service options go out to public consultation
A health authority accused last year of trying to undermine a trust has put proposals for relocating its services out to public consultation.
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Good skills don't come cheap
Southampton University Hospitals trust this week offered a new pay deal to qualified healthcare assistants which would raise some salaries to £11,600 a year.
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Jowell drawn into row over HIV/AIDS centre
Public health minister Tessa Jowell is fighting Treasury resistance to a financial rescue plan drawn up for a leading HIV/AIDS centre.
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X-ray case tests time-limits rules
A health authority has been rapped on the knuckles by the Court of Appeal for destroying patients' x-rays after three years, in disregard of litigation time limits. West Lancashire HA landed an out-of-time negligence action which it might have avoided had it kept the xrays.
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In Brief: James Taylor
James Taylor, the consultant paediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street children's hospital who was found guilty of serious misconduct by the General Medical Council, had carried out a balloon catheterisation on a six-year-old girl without her parents' consent. Dr Taylor said he thought it was in the patient's best interests.