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Hospitals May Face Funds Crunch

...spital projects are being frozen. The scale of the debts that the trusts will run into has been questioned by the Commons Public Accounts Committee in the country. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Trust is already reported to be technically insolvent as a result of its debts. The country’s community hospitals ...

Hospital Trust Will be Leaner by 300 Jobs

...acing a mammoth cash crisis, that is amounting to debts of ￡8.1 million which might force it to close wards and operating theatres in addition to cutting jobs. Market Forces Factor (MFF) has perhaps caused this downslide, because it works on the logic that it costs much less to remunerate the staff from ...

Massive Culling Of Poultry Forces Farm Owner To Commit Suicide

...ommit suicide by consuming pesticide. // The huge debts is said to have been responsible for the owner’s death. The farmer, an owner of one of the biggest poultry farms in Charmile village, had to cull at least 550 chickens, after the chickens were found to be affected by Ranikhet disease. He died at th...

India Helps British Patients To Get Their Letters Typed

...University Hospital of North Staffordshire, facing debts of nearly ￡15.5 million, took the step to cut its operating costs. Correspondence is typed in India and returned to the trust within 24 hours. The system is on trial for a month, but indications are that a long-term arrangement with the typists tea...

NHS Forced to Borrow Money at Rates of 10 percent

Rising debts are forcing NHS to borrow money at rates of 10 percent from NHS banks. These rates are much higher than those offered by other street banks. Traditionally the NHS// in collaboration with the Department of Health lent money with no charge. However ...

Employees Sacked To Tackle Huge Debts Faced By the Hospital

...launched a 90-day consultation process, to address debts of more than ￡15m. Now the hospital is expected to include 15 consultants, 370 nurses and 200 nursing assistants. But on the other hand job losses are set to be fought strongly by the trade unions. The present scenario is such that one-in-seven hav...

Burka Style Inter-faith Gowns For Muslim Patients In UK

...any parts of the NHS are struggling with crippling debts and shutting hospital beds and the hospital bosses have not said how much the new gowns cost. It has been announced that the muslim patients at the Preston and Chorley hospitals will have the opportunity to wear the gown if they wanted from the 1st...

Leeds Hospitals to Outsource Medical Transcription Work to India

...cing. Hospitals in Leeds are reported to be facing debts of 84 million pounds. Several other hospitals in Britain have already outsourced such work to India. The outsourcing plans, however, have been fiercely criticised by union leaders, MPs and medical secretaries who fear lives could be put at risk. ...

Steroid Use Linked to Crimes

...itting armed robberies or collecting crime-related debts might feel the need to be more muscular or heavier. The researchers concluded that steroids combined with other drugs might make a person more prone to commit fraud. NLA...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...% of these donors donated their kidneys to pay off debts ? In many parts of India, kidneys are used as collateral to borrow money ? Besides debts, most of the money went to procure food and clothing ? Average family income plummeted by 1/3, after the nephrectomy ? Number of donors and their fam...

Medications for Restless Legs Syndrome may Trigger Compulsive Gambling

...ustments are initiated before significant gambling debts develop, and relationships and careers are damaged. This preliminary Mayo Clinic report is the first to link pathologic gambling to use of dopamine agonists in a disease other than Parkinson. It is based on the experience of three patients who hav...

Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

...not only is it penalized by having to pay back its debts but in addition, some money is cut off from its allocated funds from the ensuing year’s budget. All this has meant that some health trusts find it virtually impossible to balance accounts and have to resort to compromise in patient healthcare, to ...

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

...ngs, while 45 percent reported the need to pay off debts more slowly or not at all. Finally, 26 percent indicated that the cost of gas has necessitated going without basics such as heat or air conditioning, or even cutting back on food purchases, over the past few months. Further, Hochwarter found that t...

Same Sex Pair Get Relief in Pakistan

... could avoid being sold off to pay the gambling debts of her uncle. But the brides relatives went to court saying it was against Islam for two women to marry and wanted the marriage to be annulled. At Lahore, Tariqs family had a measure of success. The High Court ordered an examination of Shumail Raj ...

Physios Find It Difficult to Find Job in NHS

...who have graduated this year in Wales have amassed debts ranging from 6,000 to 17,000 while studying, not including extended overdrafts and credit card bills, which must be repaid monthly. The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP) said it was a "scandal" that the new graduates, whose training is com...

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