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In Brief: The Mental Health Foundation
The Mental Health Foundation has produced a self-help manual on anxiety and depression, with exercises for dealing with low moods.
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In Brief: Unison makes legal history
Unison has claimed to have made legal history in winning a six-figure sum for a senior orthopaedic technician who became 40 per cent disabled through exposure to latex. An unnamed trust, which accepted liability for the technician's condition in June, offered the sum before a court was due to assess ...
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DoH 'overlooked' Bristol witness call
The Department of Health has apologised for failing to provide legal support to a former NHS manager called to appear at the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Lancaster University chosen for 'supermanagers' programme
Lancaster University has been chosen to run a new development programme for senior chief executives as part of the NHS Executive's plan to create a cadre of supermanagers.
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Pay deal 'is key to keeping nurses in NHS'
Nurses need a 'substantial' pay rise if the NHS is to retain the experienced staff needed to carry out the government's modernisation programme, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
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Hear here
visitor Mrs Blake has a hearing test during an open afternoon at Royal Hampshire County Hospital's audiology department. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust audiology services manager Helen Martin said the event was organised as part of deaf awareness week to' provide an opportunity to see what we do and increase ...
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Staff views on old-age services are 'negative'
Front-line staff working with older people would not like to rely on the services they provide in their own old age, King's Fund research has found.
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Board officials face calls to stand down
Tayside health board officials are facing calls for their resignation from campaigners opposed to the closure of Stracathro Hospital in Brechin.
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Region defends chief in helicopter delay row
The NHS Executive's North West regional office has vigorously defended an ambulance trust chief executive accused of delaying an emergency helicopter flight for a critically ill patient.
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Trust's ex-chair rejects damning report as 'biased and inaccurate'
The former chair of Eastbourne Hospitals trust has launched a scathing counter-attack on a regional review that criticised the trust's 'autocratic, centralist and controlling' management style.
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Kids' stuff
Children watch as a section of a new nursery arrives at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
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Short cuts: Hutt announces £1m anti-smoking drive for Wales
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has announced a £1m programme to implement the policies set out in the Smoking Kills white paper. A 'smokebusters' club for 9 to 11-year-olds will be set up as part of initiatives to curb smoking among children and young people. New smoking ...
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Short cuts: Union seeks a 'beefed-up role' for school nurses
The Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association has called for school nurses to be given a 'beefed-up role' in preventing teenage pregnancy and drug misuse. In a consultation document drawn up with the Queen's Nursing Institute, it proposes benchmarks for cover in schools, with a three-strong team led by a ...
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Short cuts: Cocaine death trend among employed cohabitants
A trend in cocaine-related deaths has been identified by the third report from the national programme on substance abuse deaths, run by St George's Hospital Medical School. Although only 18 deaths out of 695 reported by 96 coroners' jurisdictions in England and Wales involved cocaine, 'these cases differ from the ...
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Short cuts: Cash crisis looms for military hospital services
Military hospital services are facing a cash shortage against a 'background of current clinical manpower shortages and increasing operational demands', defence chiefs have warned. In its annual business plan, the Defence Secondary Care Agency admits it has overspent its £113m budget by £2.5m last year, while it is facing a ...
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Short cuts: Sickness absence problems at 60 per cent of trusts
Sixty per cent of trusts see the level of sickness absence among staff as a problem and 86 per cent are running, or plan to run, some sort of initiative to reduce it, according to a survey of all 402 trusts in England by the Government Statistical Service. The average ...
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Short cuts: Draft quality standards for carer support issued
The King's Fund is consulting on a draft set of quality standards for local carer support services, developed by a steering group to take forward one of the recommendations of the government's national strategy, Caring About Carers. The aim is to ensure a more consistent quality of services across the ...
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Schizophrenia patients face denial of new drug treatments
People with schizophrenia could be denied modern drugs as a first-line treatment under controversial draft guidelines commissioned by the Department of Health.
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Yule remember HA's message
Cambridgeshire health authority is planning to send out 300,000 Christmas cards bearing such seasonal messages as how to cook safely, cope with a hangover and decide whether to call out an ambulance.
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Days like this
HAs demand emergency cash. . . Clarke hints at cash deal. . .Complaints system slammed. . . Private hospital 'would hit NHS recruitment'. . .