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News in brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has said he will set up a national group to implement recommendations made by the Royal College of Surgeons last year on the future of kidney services. Patients, health professionals and clinicians will be involved. The college proposed to reduce the number of transplant units ...
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Anti-poverty policies may save 10,000 lives
More than 10,000 premature deaths per year will be saved if the government persists with policies to combat poverty and reduce health inequalities, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'
People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.
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Public inquiry into Shipman case crimes confirmed
Health secretary Alan Milburn has confirmed that there will be a public inquiry into the issues surrounding the crimes committed by Hyde GP Harold Shipman, convicted in January of killing 15 of his patients and forging the will of one of them. Mr Milburn was ordered to rethink his decision ...
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Delegation of Dudley strikers meets health minister
Health minister John Denham and NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates last week met a delegation of striking Unison members from Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. About 600 mainly ancillary workers have voted for a fifth strike - for 10 days from Monday - against their transfer ...
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One in three physiotherapists comes from abroad
A report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has found that one in three physiotherapists entering the UK labour market comes from overseas, with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand the main sources. Most enter the UK for short periods and work in temporary positions in the NHS. CSP chief ...
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Lay group formed to lobby for PCT board changes
A National Association of Lay People in Primary Care has been launched to lobby for changes in the board structure of primary care trusts. Nicholas Reeves, the association's founder and a lay member of Acton and Ealing primary care group in London, said there was a danger that the 'expertise' ...
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High blood pressure causes most strokes in UK
An organisation has been launched to draw attention to the issue of high blood pressure, which affects 10 million people in the UK, is the most important cause of strokes and is one of three key factors in heart attacks. The Blood Pressure Association says almost half of all individuals ...
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Heart czar calls for inequalities in regional care to be redressed
'Heart czar' Dr Roger Boyle has said the cardiac care map of England needs to be redrawn to overcome an imbalance of treatment benefiting London and the South East.
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Super-aspirins: 'The same cost as M&S pay-offs'
Dr Boyle hinted that anti-clotting 'super-aspirins' could shortly be approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Scots lead way on fluoride debate
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has announced a public consultation on putting fluoride into tap water.
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Lib Dems urge reprieve for CHCs
Liberal Democrats have urged the government to abandon its decision to abolish community health councils and reform them instead.
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Mac, not Machiavelli
Scotland's new chief medical officer is defecting from the BMA. Poacher turned gamekeeper, or just an honest diplomat, asks Colin Wright
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Dear Mel. . .
In HSJ of 27 July, a woman wrote in to 'Dear Mel' to say that her hospital social club had been used on one occasion by women for a hen night (with male strippers) and by men (probably with female strippers) on another. Why is it, then, 'a blast' for ...
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Low-key union debate in ritual attack on PFI
The Trades Union Congress issued a ritual denunciation of the private finance initiative last week at the end of a low-key congress overshadowed by the fuel crisis.
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Public services 'shouldn't be run privately'
Unison has claimed that more than 60 per cent of the public believe that public services should be run using directly employed workers.
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Days like this
Staff increment proposal . . . 'presumptuous'staff ads. . . Clarke says watershed ahead. . .
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Pump up the volume
Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate