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Concerns for NHSnet as e-mail law threatens patients' privacy
Health leaders have warned that patient confidentiality may be seriously undermined by government plans to allow the security services to monitor Internet traffic and intercept private e-mails.
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House visit
People with multiple sclerosis picket the Department of Health's Richmond House headquarters, wearing gags to protest at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's refusal to hear their views on MS drugs.
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Think radically on debt, beleaguered HA told
A 'radical rethink of management and accountability issues' is needed at debt-ridden West Surrey health authority, according to a report by an independent advisory panel.
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Strike looms as PFI wrangle rumbles on
The NHS Executive has warned a trust facing strike action over a private finance initiative project that renegotiating the deal would have a 'very considerable service and financial impact' across the NHS.
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Managers disciplined
A wave of disciplinary action has been taken against the managers of a Carlisle psychiatric hospital where elderly patients received 'appalling treatment'.
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Short Cuts: Midwives seeking relocation of maternity services
The Royal College of Midwives is setting up talks with primary care trusts in a move to shift maternity services out of the acute sector.RCM general secretary Karlene Davis told HSJ : 'We would see maternity services as much more primary care-centred - in mature PCTs.'Ms Davis said she hoped ...
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Short Cuts: Call for GPs to abandon 'traditional role'
The Office of Health Economics has published a call for GPs to abandon much of their traditional role and become 'general contractors for care', steering patients through the health system in much the same way as a general building contractor steers a building project through its various stages. Professor Gordon ...
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Short Cuts: Ambulance services in London falter on 999 calls
London Ambulance Service trust's performance has dipped again.During June, when Euro 2000 added to demand, ambulances reached 35 per cent of urgent 999 calls within eight minutes, against a target of 55 per cent, and 82 per cent of calls within 14 minutes, against a target of 95 per cent.The ...
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Short Cuts: Consultation launched into fortifying wheat flour
The four UK health departments and the Food Standards Agency have launched a three-month public consultation on whether to fortify wheat flour with folic acid.The committee on the medical aspects of food and nutrition policy concluded earlier this year that fortification could reduce the number of babies born with neural ...
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Short Cuts: 'One in three' in rural areas experienced poverty
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report has concluded that one in three people in rural areas experienced poverty at some time between 1990 and 1996, but the problem was masked by 'apparent affluence', making social exclusion 'harder to address'. It says increasing gentrification in the countryside and policies to cut down ...
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Wordperfect
A hand reaches out to touch one of 10 panels carved by Rebecca Walls for West Dorset Hospitals trust to celebrate the millennium.
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Trusts sidelined cancer funds out of research, MPs discover
MPs have accused trusts of funnelling away funds earmarked for research on cancer.
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Underspent HAZs defend budgets
Health action zones have defended underspending their budgets by 32 per cent overall last year, amid fears that funding cuts this year mean the government is 'losing faith' in the scheme.
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Think-tank's income fall offset by investments
The King's Fund saw a further fall in income last year and overspent by almost £2m - but this was offset by another leap in the value of its investments.
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Trust attacked by GMC for lack of action in Neale case
The president of the General Medical Council has strongly criticised managers in Northallerton for failing to take much earlier action against gynaecologist Richard Neale, who was struck off the medical register last week.
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Rethink over Shipman inquiry
Health secretary Alan Milburn has decided not to appeal against a High Court ruling that he should reconsider his decision to hold the inquiry into mass murderer Dr Harold Shipman behind closed doors.
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Days like this
NHS waiting times priority. . .Retired admiral becomes chair. . .Public apathy about reforms. . .CHCs campaign. . .Controversy in Birmingham. . .
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Make or break
Was it worth the wait? HSJ opens its six-page analysis of the NHS plan with the Commons announcement - a crucial day for the government, as Laura Donnelly, Tash Shifrin, Lyn Whitfield and Kaye McIntosh report
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Can't pay, won't pay
THE NHS PLAN The government has said no to free personal care in nursing homes. But the pressure is now on Tony Blair to change his mind, says Tash Shifrin
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Testing positive
NHS chief executives rushed to read the NHS plan as it was published on the Internet, before giving HSJ their first reactions