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A bitter pill
GPs are reluctant to prescribe methadone for fear of attracting too many drugaddicted patients or the drug being sold on. A new shared-care scheme aims to alter attitudes, says Alison Moore
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Built to last
London Open House has been giving residents of the capital a chance to peek inside buildings normally closed to the public for eight years.
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Blanket opposition to team bonus schemes
NHS unions and employers may have clashed over the scale of this year's pay settlement, but they appear united in their lack of enthusiasm for the team bonuses due to be piloted next year.
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N. Ireland to get nurse consultants
Nurse consultant posts have been introduced to Northern Ireland by health minister Bairbre de Brun.
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Days like this
Half the population will have private medical insurance by the year 2000 compared with the current 12 per cent, actuary George Orros has predicted. He claims this will happen even without tax incentives, but would depend on the industry developing innovative schemes for treatment by GPs and hospital doctors below ...
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Modernisers are just the usual suspects
The NHS modernisation board seems, as the DoH admits, to consist largely of 'the people you would expect'. But, asks Claire Laurent, can they be truly independent? Why the overpowering emphasis on acute hospital issues? And what happened to partnership wi
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Brighton rock
In an impassioned debate, words such as 'dignity', 'pride', 'body and soul' rang out across the floor of conference.
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The worst times are over. . .
. . . but the challenge begins for the new president of the managers' organisation, the IHM. Claire Laurent reports
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Knock knock
Healthcare assistants may be making headway in their battle against the 'second-class'stigma - and that could mean them finally winning RCN membership. Thelma Agnew reports
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Cancer research millions 'fall short'
The extra cash pledged by the government for cancer research between now and 2003 is well below what is needed to bring services up to standard, according to a leading charity.
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DoH rips up rules on paperwork
GP paperwork will be 'slashed' under new guidelines which mean doctors will no longer have to keep paper records of information stored on computers.
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Conservatives promise cheaper private care
The Conservative Party conference this week heard leaders' plans for a massive expansion and 'shake-up' of private healthcare to outstrip total Labour health spending.
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Milburn rejects CHCs'call for cash to oppose their abolition
Health secretary Alan Milburn has refused health watchdogs' calls to fund a judicial review of his decision to abolish them.
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'160 children may have been failed' by Bristol
The final clinical case review by the Bristol inquiry has suggested that more than 160 babies and young children may have been damaged or died as a result of poor standards of care between 1984 and 1995.
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In Brief
Leaders of four national organisations representing GPs have warned the government it must 'fully engage' the GP workforce as it implements the NHS plan. The chairs of the British Medical Association, National Association of Primary Care, NHS Alliance and Royal College of General Practitioners met last week to decide on ...
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NI's health is 'among the worst in Europe', says de Brun in cash bid
Northern Ireland's health minister, Bairbre de Brun, has joined a ministerial scramble for cash with a bid for a £274m increase in her department's funding.
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Deacon rejects free personal care but boosts home-based support
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is expected to announce today that the recommendations of the Sutherland report on longterm care will not be implemented in full.
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Payoffs report calls for standardised contracts
A scathing report into a series of pay-offs totalling more than £1m to eight former executive directors of Northern Ireland health bodies has called for standardised employment contracts.
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CHI adds trust to next review
A trust whose cardiology department was the target of a call for a Commission for Health Improvement investigation has been included in CHI's next review round.