Shattered dreams

Article Abstract:

Disabled people accounted for just 0.3% of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce in 1994, despite the requirement under the 1944 Disabled Persons Act that 3% of its workforce be composed of registered disabled people. Adviser for the RCN's Work Injured Nurses' group Guinette Davies points out that not only are NHS employers generally extremely unsupportive and unsympathetic to workers with disabilities, but employees who are suddenly incapacitated by illness or injury are treated extremely harshly. Davies is particularly saddened by able-bodied nurses' intolerant attitude towards disabled or work-injured colleagues.

Human resource management, Cover Story, Employment, Disabled persons

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Ending the lottery

Article Abstract:

The government aims to restructure cancer-care services within the National Health Service to focus more on primary care and make the service more specialised. Treatment will be transformed and many lives could be saved by the move, while care provision will become more standardised throughout the country. However, existing financial resources are to be used and no new funding is to be provided by the government. The restructuring has been welcomed by the RCN and the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund. A policy framework report has been published as a guide for providers and purchasers.

Care and treatment, Political aspects, Cancer, Cancer patients

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Tweaking the market

Article Abstract:

The Labour party's new health manifesto holds great appeal for nurses who are currently battling with the problems facing the National Health Service (NHS). It promises a new NHS characterised by stability, competence and common sense, and details plans to keep the best elements of the NHS and abolish the worst. The party plans to abolish trust hospitals, the internal market, privatisation and GP fundholders, and will move towards denationalised hospitals or locally managed units.

Management, Planning, Health care reform

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