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In brief: Dudley Group of Hospitals trust
About 600 Unison members have begun a week-long strike against transfer out of the NHS in a private finance initiative deal at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. The mainly ancillary workers have already staged a two-day and a four-day strike. Last week, West Midlands regional office chair Clive Wilkinson visited ...
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In brief: Selly Oak Hospital
Seven military nurses have reported for duty at the accident and emergency unit of Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham. A new national Centre for Defence Medicine is being established at University Hospital Birmingham trust and should be fully operational from next April.
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One 2 One argument
London's Hammersmith Hospitals trust has defended accepting £20,000 from a mobile phone company in return for the use of Charing Cross Hospital's name in a television advertisement.
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Services 'will go down the tubes in NI if system is not improved'
Health provision will 'go down the tubes' in Northern Ireland unless a better system is set up, a leading doctor has warned.
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MPs press for CHC abolition meeting
MPs on the House of Commons all-party committee on community health councils are to meet ministers for urgent discussions in the wake of the NHS plan's decision to abolish CHCs.
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'Save A&E' campaign hits HA
Health authorities covering Brighton and Haywards Heath have been forced to defend themselves from a newspaper campaign to 'save' a local accident and emergency department.
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Project makes investment plea over capital's shifting ethnic mix
Public health experts have called for investment in elderly people's healthcare to take account of London's diverse multi-ethnic population.
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Mental health blueprint spells out safety plan for the young
Mental health experts have drawn up a blueprint detailing how the government should deliver its promise to guarantee early and intensive support for young people with psychosis.
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Deprived areas hit by underspending
Some of the most deprived areas outside London are spending well below the money nominally allocated for mental health services, according to a national survey by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry.
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MP who was 'champion of the underdog'dies
Veteran Labour MP Audrey Wise, a long-standing member of the Commons health select committee, has died aged 65.
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Needlestick injuries on the increase
Unison has called for the number of healthcare workers exposed to viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV as a result of needlestick injuries to be monitored as part of its campaign for a ban on 'old-fashioned, unsafe needles' and the introduction of retractable needles or needles with ...
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Deficit increased at Bart's as a result of directive
Implementing the EU working-time directive has added £1.6m to the income and expenditure deficit of Barts and the London trust, according to a report to its board. The trust had an income and expenditure deficit of £2.98m at the end of 1999-2000 and all but one clinical directorate were overspent. ...
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Discretionary points scheme to end with buy-out
Glasgow Primary Care trust is to 'buy out' nurses with a one-off, £500 payment to end the discretionary points scheme.
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Emergency calls increased and service improved
Scottish Ambulance Service has reported another rise in demand. Its annual report shows it responded to 495,248 emergency calls last year, an increase of 8,709 on the previous year. Air ambulance demand increased by almost 8 per cent to 2,645 missions and the service also dealt with 2.3 million non-emergency ...
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Livingstone knocks lack of social housing at key site
London mayor Ken Livingstone has criticised a landmark development for failing to provide social housing. Mr Livingstone 'deplored' plans for the redevelopment of Battersea power station, which include 657 new flats. Last week, average house prices in London hit £200,000, and Mr Livingstone said the decision not to include social ...
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Not just acute idea
The private finance initiative's sphere of influence is spreading far beyond the acute hospitals of the first wave - a trend further boosted by the NHS plan. Seamus Ward reports
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Ahead of the game
Most of the large, acute private finance schemes have been driven by the need to rationalise disparate units on to one site. Leeds Community and Mental Health trust is using PFI to do the opposite - the trust needs a range of accommodation on sites scattered around the city.
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Joined-up thinking
Most projects that aspire to pioneer status are happy to put forward one element of the new building as proof they are breaking the mould. However, a £3.8m scheme at Sedgley in the West Midlands claims no less than three ground-breaking developments.
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Take your partners
All over the country trusts are forming 30-year relationships with PFI partners - but the average marriage doesn't last this long. How can you be sure which consortium is: a) Right for you? b) Means what it says? c) Will stay faithful? Use John Kelly's ha
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Grin and bear it?
Graffiti is already daubed on the otherwise pristine walls of the children's ward in the brand new Cumberland Infirmary. 'Tony Blair was here, 16 June 2000, ' reads the scrawl. He really ought to know better at his age. But perhaps he was incited to autograph the wall by the ...