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The Journal warns that thousands of health workers face the axe in the region over the next four years. Figures from the RCN’s Frontline First campaign show that out of £800m in savings, around £369.5m will be permanently cut from health budgets in the North East and Cumbria.
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The NHS spent £313 million on management consultants last year - as thousands of staff faced job cuts. The Times reports that the sum revealed by the government would pay for 10,000 nurses and equals the amount the NHS spent on treating lung and skin cancer. Royal College of Nursing chief executive Dr Peter Carter said: "The figure is a scandal at a time when nurses are seeing frontline services cut and being asked to accept a pay freeze." Dr Carter was also interviewed by the BBC and ITV on Saturday.
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Imposing spending cuts on the NHS could actually help people's health, according to David Hunter, professor of health policy at Durham University. He says cutting the NHS budget would focus attention on weaning people off lifestyles that lead to preventable problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
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The Department of Health has announced that from January all patients must be placed in single sex accommodation unless there is “clinical justification.” Several newspapers report that thousands of patients stayed in mixed sex wards last year. RCN Executive Director of Nursing and Service Delivery Janet Davies yesterday appeared on BBC News 24 channel and ITV’s lunchtime news to comment on the proposals. Mary Dejevsky has written an opinion piece in the Independent on patient privacy in this context.
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A new superbug that is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics has entered UK hospitals, experts warn. They say bacteria that make an enzyme called NDM-1 have travelled back with NHS patients who went abroad to countries like India and Pakistan for treatments such as cosmetic surgery. Although there have only been about 50 cases identified in the UK so far, scientists fear it will go global.
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