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Cash boost allows breast screening to be extended
The Department of Health has confirmed that an additional £8m is to be allocated to the breast cancer screening programme to allow screening to be extended from next year to cover women aged between 65 and 70 .The extension of the mammography service will allow screening of an additional 400,000 ...
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Glaxo Wellcome man gets top BMA job in break with tradition
In a surprise move, one of the top directors from Glaxo Wellcome, who has no medical qualification, is to take over as secretary of the British Medical Association.
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CHI reviews will grade trusts on governance
The Commission for Health Improvement has denied that it is under pressure to adapt its reviews to the 'traffic-light' performance monitoring system.
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Capacity limits NHS-private influx
The private healthcare sector is buoyant, but limited capacity will prevent a 'large-scale' influx of NHS patients, industry analysts say.
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One in three people will develop cancer. One in four will die from it. But a year after its formation, the Cancer Services Collaborative seems to offer significant hope for faster and better patient care.
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Another fine mesh
A health secretary wrapped in the flag, vehement denials of ministerial interference and more data than the Pentagon - it was all at NICE's second annual conference.Paul Stephenson reports
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Body politic?
NICE chair Professor Sir Michael Rawlins sharply rebutted claims that ministers had influenced its decisions.
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Tangled up in blue
Will the 999 emergency services seek closer co-operation or will the potential pitfalls put them off? Alison Moore reports
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Pilot study tests limits of co-operation
The potential - and limit - of emergency service co-operation is being looked at in a series of pilot projects, including one in Wiltshire.
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Virtually perfect
The NHS could soon have an electronic library if a new pilot works out. But will it ever be 'one of the great libraries of the world', wonders Lyn Whitfield
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Question time: search engine needed
Virtual visitors get one genuinely new service - a look at the truth behind recent medical stories, provided by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in York.
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Century and not out
Victorian pioneers of community care are getting the recognition they deserve. Barbara Millar reports
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We're too old for sticking plaster - and amen to that
But is the new government realism simply pre-election posturing?
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Time to put the brakes on
Is the traffic-light system as unfair as the much-loathed efficiency index?
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Bleating up the wrong tree
Conventional wisdom and government policy assume that there is a 'shortage' of nurses in the NHS and the remedy for this malaise is that remuneration should be increased. Perhaps this conclusion is a nonsensical mixture of dubious logic and inadequate evidence and nurses are not underpaid.
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Have a NICE day in Nice - it's time for a winter break
Last week was a NICE week and a Nice week, whereas this week will mainly be a Nice week. All the evidence is that it will not be such a nice one on the NHS front, let alone the European one. But health secretary Alan Milburn has chosen to place ...