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Top News:

• Patient choice – the role of AHPs Chief health professions officer urges AHPs to redesign services to give patients more choice

• Teamwork expands choice – case study
  A look at an orthopaedic centre offering patients a choice of faster surgery

• Investment in radiography services helps workforce move forward
  Extra investment is helping to relieve staff pressures, offer new career opportunities and cut patient waiting times

• Redesigning radiography services – case studies
  Examples of radiographers modernising their services

• Influencing NHS foundation trusts
  AHPs have an opportunity to influence service planning in trusts with greater freedom

• Helping patients to walk again
  Therapists have combined with scientists to help partially paralysed patients walk again

• Speech and language review
  Therapists in Lincolnshire have conducted a review of services for schoolchildren

News in brief

• News from Barts and the London NHS Trust
  
• Intensive care collaborative
  
• Speech and language therapy
  
• Staff 'Time-Out' scheme
  
• New strategy agreed
  
• Jewish nutrition link worker
  
• HPC encourages registrants to get involved
  
• National consensus on dysphagia
  
• Patient Group Direction templates
  
• Research opportunity 'down under'
  

The Digest

Did you see the news about…? If you missed an announcement or new development of interest to you, the chances are it could be listed in The Digest. Each month The Digest features subjects of note including where to obtain more information.

• Pay scales for 2003-2004
  
• NHSmail and directory service
  
• Health care awards
  
• NHS violence
  
• Prosthetic awards
  
• Consultants accept new contract
  
• GP figures
  
• Better working for health visitors
  
• Cancer services
  
• A&E patients’ champion
  
• Hospital improvement partnership
  
• Children’s services
  
• PCTs pilot US model
  
• Heart services investment
  
• Black and minority ethnic framework
  
• Keep warm, keep well
  
• Flu jab campaign
  
• Alcohol harm reduction
  
• Digital hearing aids
  
• HDA evidence briefing
  
• NHS dentistry reforms
  
• Easier prescriptions
  
• Name change for medicinal substances
  
• Accident reporting
  
• Sexual health cash
  
• Food and cleanliness
  
• NHS and Primary Care magazines

Parliamentary questions

Reference to the most recent questions raised in Parliament on AHP issues

Diary

Useful dates and events

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