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No kidding
With district general hospitals doing less paediatric work, there are worries that they no longer have sufficient expertise. Is it time for all children to be treated in specialist centres, asks Stuart Smalley
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Taking a pounding
The increasing use of private beds for mental health patients is costing the NHS a fortune and demoralising community services staff. Alan Simpson reports
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No two ways about it
Labour needs to balance the health outcome and service delivery agendas in spending the modernisation money, argues Adrian Towse
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Careers without tiers
A course that teaches nurses to do work normally carried out by surgeons has led to some graduates running their own day-case clinics. Jane Farrell reports
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in person
Stephen Coneys is new director of primary care for Birmingham health authority. A former state registered nurse, he has been working as assistant to the chief executive and head of contractor operation. Mr Coneys, a leading mountaineer, says he has 'experienced and learned from some spectacular failures including frostbite and ...
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CBE honour for CHI chief Homa
Former waiting-list buster and current director of the Commission for Health Improvement Dr Peter Homa has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours.
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GMC confirms need for doctor reforms
Plans to make doctors prove they are good at their jobs will be unveiled today by the embattled General Medical Council.
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Calls for tougher restrictions on consultants' private undertakings
Consultants should not be allowed to undertake private practice unless they can show that none of their NHS patients are waiting more than three months for hospital treatment, the health select committee heard this week.
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Ambulance head dismisses SMPs' criticism as 'unfair'
The head of Scotland's ambulance service has rejected sharp criticism from the Scottish Parliament's audit committee.
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Clear-out of top managers
Scotland's chief medical officer, Sir David Carter, is to take up a senior post with a charity following his departure from the health service in September.
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In brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has ruled that taxanes Taxotere and Taxol can be used to treat advanced breast cancer where other drugs have not worked or are unsuitable. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry welcomed the decision , but said it should have been reached without the ...
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced a further 91 nurse consultant posts, taking the total number of 'supernurses' to almost 200, a third of whom specialise in critical care. The Royal College of Nursing called for further expansion.
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In brief: Dr Mo Mowlam
Cabinet Office minister Dr Mo Mowlam, who co-ordinates drug policy across the government, has announced that £1m from the confiscated assets fund will be used to finance research on drug misuse among women and ethnic minorities.
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In brief: Private finance initiative contract
Thirteen of Wales' 15 trusts are taking part in a single procurement exercise for replacement finance systems. The £20m private finance initiative contract is due to be signed in September. Project board chair Alan Brace, finance director at Pontypridd and Rhondda trust, said it offered 'big economies of scale' and ...