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New approach to tackling Welsh health inequalities
The government has unveiled a 'new approach' to tackling some of the worst health problems in Europe in a widely applauded green paper.
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Auditors argue for housing focus to beat bed blocking
Emergency hospital admissions and bed blocking could be reduced if health authorities and local authorities tackled basic housing issues, a spending watchdog has argued.
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In Brief: Ashworth special hospital authority
Ashworth special hospital authority has announced that chief executive Hilary Hodge will remain 'off site' until Dame Fiona Caldicott has completed her review. Dr Hodge, who denies accusations of 'macho management', said she believed this would help the review 'to proceed in the most open and honest environment possible'.
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Lore on audit
There's much talk about the value of clinical audit - in theory. Now a survey of trusts offers an overview of the real costs and benefits of their clinical audit departments. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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MSF urges Blood Authority to reopen centres
The MSF union has called for the reopening of three blood centres closed during a much-criticised shake-up of the transfusion service.
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In Brief: Tees health authority
Tees health authority has set up an independent inquiry into the psychiatric care given to Jonathan Crisp, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last week for the murder of Stockton-on-Tees resident Peter McNamee last year.
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Bringing back 'home rule'
A 'yes' vote in tomorrow's referendum will signal fundamental changes to Northern Ireland's health service. Pat Healy reports
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In Brief: Royal National Institute for the Blind survey results
Blind and partially sighted people over 60 face 'isolation, poverty and loneliness' on a daily basis, according to a UK-wide survey of 500 people by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. More than one in five never had a visit from social services yet many of the daily hurdles ...
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Royal blues
A powerful political and medical alliance is calling for a halt to the £200m Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh PFI deal. Barbara Millar reports
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Single inspection body for homes
Plans to create a new separate inspection body for nursing and residential homes have been welcomed throughout the NHS.
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Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory
Medical student David Swann gets intimate with a retinopathy head at Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory.
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In Brief: Government's new information technology strategy
The launch of the government's new information technology strategy for the NHS has been delayed again while health ministers examine its financial implications. Publication is now tentatively scheduled for July, an NHS Executive spokesperson said this week.
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In Brief: Health expert Chris Ham
Health authorities should be obliged to explain clinical decisions, and the NHS should have a system of appeal tribunals for patients refused treatment, health expert Chris Ham argues in a book, published by the King's Fund, looking at the lessons of the Jaymee Bowen case.
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In Brief: Research by Pay & Workforce Research
Time lost in sickness absence cost the NHS more than £500m in 199798, research by Pay & Workforce Research shows. Revealing the data last week, PWR consultant Gillian Whitaker urged managers to use return-to-work interviews to identify the causes of absence.
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In Brief: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The government should set a national target to reduce work-related illness and injury, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy says in its response to the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation . The CSP recommends reducing the number of days' work lost due to sickness absence by one tenth by ...
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Check-up time
Despite renewed government emphasis on effectiveness, trusts vary enormously in their commitment to clinical audit. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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Senior medics vote 'no confidence' in trust chief
Senior medical staff have passed a vote of no confidence in a trust chief executive.