All News articles – Page 2315
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This unhealthy precedent on top appointments must not be repeated
Your readers will be aware that the current director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales, Toby Harris, was appointed a non-executive director of the London Ambulance Service earlier this year (News, page 4, 4 June). His recent announcement that he will resign his post and ...
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Solid support for Ashworth chief executive Hodge from senior managers in north west
We write in relation to recent events at Ashworth Hospital (News, page 4, 28 May).
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Auditor urges rule on 'insider knowledge'
The NHS should draw up clear rules to prevent potential 'conflicts of interest' among senior managers who leave to work for private companies that do business with the health service, says a hard-hitting auditor's report.
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Ministers fall back on old pledges in wake of heart babies scandal
Ministers moved this week to beef up the NHS quality agenda in response to the outcry over the Bristol heart surgery baby deaths.
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No going back
health secretary Frank Dobson opened a new primary care and community health centre in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency last week. Camden and Islington Community Health Services trust has now been able to move existing services out of hospital. Mr Dobson is pictured with GP Iona Heath.
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Judge overturns 'irrational' barring order
Mental heath law is a minefield. Last month a patient detained under the Mental Health Act for four months in 1996 won a High Court order quashing a decision by Riverside Mental Health trust to continue detaining him after his mother applied for his discharge.
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It's a now or never chance for Bart's Hospital
At risk of outstaying my welcome on the letters page, Angela Sinclair (Letters, 28 May) is right about the future of Bart's.
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Campaigners win battle over mixed-sex unit
A trust ordered to abandon plans to build a new mixed-sex unit for mentally ill patients has set up a working party to hammer out a design with single-sex facilities.
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New body finds a way through the bottleneck
In 'Slow-acting remedy' (pages 24-25, 21 May) Eldridge and South are right to point out the shortage of skills, either to undertake research studies, to lead research teams, to apply research to developing practice or to provide training and supervision for research.
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Christine Hancock: 'The first time I played in a boy's world'
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock became district general manager of Waltham Forest HA in 1985. She was the first woman nurse to secure the post and one of the first women to reach that level. But getting there was not plain sailing.
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Writs fly as bucks are passed in Guy's project funding debacle
Auditors have been unable to allocate blame for a hospital building project which ran pounds68.7m over budget and three years behind schedule because the trust, its project manager and its service engineers are suing each other.
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Operations cancelled as workers strike over 'multiskilling' job losses
Hundreds of non-urgent operations were cancelled this week as staff at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff went on indefinite strike in protest at jobs cuts caused by a contracting-out deal.
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Managers fear year of policy confusion as primary care groups are established
Senior finance managers fear the cost and workload involved in setting up primary care groups will lead to problems elsewhere in the NHS, an exclusive survey for HSJ has discovered.
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How to make an Impact on the lengthy waiting lists for sight-restoring cataract operations
Your report that Scottish MPs were shocked to find that large numbers of people are waiting for sight-restoring cataract operations (News, page 8, 14 May) again highlights the issues surrounding the management of this common condition.
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A gender for change
Back in 1991, the Department of Health, acting on behalf of the NHS, became the first government department to sign up to Opportunity 2000.