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Doctors should form GMC majority, say 99 per cent
Doctors should continue to form the majority of the General Medical Council, on the grounds that they are best placed to judge the actions of other doctors, according to the overwhelming majority of GPs.Nearly 99 per cent of them questioned in a survey by BMA News Review said the GMC ...
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Patients to face £100 fine for false exemption claims
Patients found to have falsely claimed exemption from NHS charges will be subject to penalty charges of up to £100 from 1 December, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. If patients cannot provide evidence they are entitled to help with charges they will still receive treatment, but claims will ...
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New post included in £6m strategy to bolster PAMs
A £6m strategy to improve the status, training, pay and career opportunities for the professions allied to medicine has been announced by junior health minister Lord Hunt.A new post of therapist consultant is to be created and the first wave of at least 400 will be in place by 2004.The ...
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RCN fears UKCC could fall foul of human rights law
The Royal College of Nursing says it is concerned that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting may be acting in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights - which guarantees a right to a fair trial - because it acts as judge, jury and prosecutor ...
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Paramedics given wider powers to administer drugs
Ambulance paramedics are to be allowed to administer a wider range of drugs as part of a move to allow speedier access to treatment for patients in longer ambulance journeys, junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced.The additional drugs include benzylpenicillin for use in cases of suspected meningococcal septicaemia; syntometrine ...
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18 staff lose jobs as Confed shuts office
The NHS Confederation is to close its Birmingham offices - three years after chief executive Stephen Thornton reassured staff there were no plans for a move to London.
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'Extend mental health plans' call
The national service framework for mental health should be extended to cover children and young people, says a children's mental health charity.
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GMC buys extra time in row over cancer registry privacy
The General Medical Council has moved to try to head off the potential collapse of the UK cancer registration programme.
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Hospital put patients to bed in midafternoon
Patient groups have criticised a hospital where staff shortages were so severe that nurses say they were forced to put elderly patients to bed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
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Trust under fire for £3m agency bill
Trade unions are seeking urgent talks with a Scottish trust after it signed a multi-million pound contract with a private company to supply nurses and healthcare assistants - despite the fact that ministers have urged trusts only to use agencies as a last resort.
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Days like this
A £2m contract with management consultants to prepare West Midlands regional supplies organisation for the internal market has come under fire from the district general managers of financially pressed health authorities. They have voiced concern at the money paid to United Research while hospitals are closing beds to make ends ...
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Talking point
To combine his twin NHS roles of permanent secretary and chief executive, Nigel Crisp has to pull off a tricky balancing act. But he is determined to be accessible - and communicative - he tells Laura Donnelly in an exclusive interview
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Highs and lows: the Crisp career to date
Nigel Crisp began his NHS career in 'what was then called a mental handicap unit' in East Berkshire. It provided one of the lowest points in his career. He suggests that one of his earliest decisions - to sack a charge nurse accused of ill-treating patients - was one of ...
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Whistle stop tour
A worried manager voiced her concerns about Oxford Heart Centre a year ago. Some of those involved have left, but no-one has been fired. Laura Donnelly and Claire Laurent report
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Crowd puller
It is not just social services that is strengthening its partnership with the NHS - there's education, housing, even 'cultural services'. Tash Shifrin follows the joined-up dots
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Strawberry fields for ever
The oldest non-executive director in the country, Sir Sidney Hamburger has devoted his career to the staunch support of the NHS. Jeremy Davies reports
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Too many cooks spoil the froth
Celebrity chefs are to beef up the hospital menu, but two-Mars-Bars-a-day man Mark Gould has his doubts
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Joining forces
The promises of 'zero tolerance'have come to nothing, so is it time for an NHS police force to protect staff from attacks, asks Alison Moore
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Milburn versus Bogle in the battle of the 48hour pledge
Health secretary stands his ground - but still has pay-round joust to come