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Doubts over Virgin 'gimmick'
Health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to bring in consultants from Virgin Atlantic to advise the NHS on making hospitals more consumer friendly has been greeted with scepticism.
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Chief of NHS Scotland denies he could leave service soon
The chief executive of the NHS in Scotland has attempted to quash speculation that he is to leave the service soon.
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In Brief: New PCTs
Three primary care groups in Blackburn, Trafford South and Herefordshire will become primary care trusts in October, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. Two PCTs for West Norfolk and Hertsmere have already been given the go ahead.
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In Brief: Beacon status
Beacon status is to be extended to a range of services, including accident and emergency departments, this year, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced.
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In Brief: Two trusts in Lincolnshire merger plans
Two trusts in Lincolnshire have been given permission to launch public consultation on merger plans. Lincoln District Healthcare trust and South Lincolnshire Healthcare trust aim to create a single organisation providing mental health, learning disability and community services next April.
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In Brief: Call for baby walkers to be banned
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has called for baby walkers to be banned at its annual conference, arguing they can restrict babies' development and lead to 4,000 injuries every year.
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In Brief: Recruitment figures
Health minister John Denham has announced that almost 3,700 doctors were recruited by the NHS between 1997 and 1999.He said this showed the government was 'making progress' on its plans to employ 7,000 more doctors and 15,000 more nurses.
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In Brief: Correction
Several references to 'CHI' in Marion Witton's letter (page 21, 4 May), responding to our feature 'Shadowlands', should have been to the National Care Standards Commission. We apologise for the error, which occurred during editing.
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In Brief: Correction
Last week's feature on orthopaedic surgeons ('Blade runners', pages 20-23) referred to a British Orthopaedic Association study of 250 consultants' operating patterns. The study was in fact by John Yates and colleagues at the health services management centre, Birmingham University.
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Hospital keeps family scheme
A Scottish hospital is pressing ahead with plans to send patients with learning difficulties to live with staff despite allegations of misconduct and maltreatment of residents.
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Delays in HIV funding attacked
The government has come under fire over delays dogging both this year's funding and the national strategy for HIV and AIDS, promised three years ago.
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Hello dolly
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett meets Klaudine Simpson during a visit to Northern General Hospital in Sheffield to open its clinical skills centres for training medical students. They are examining plastic learning models showing a foetus at different stages of development. The centre has a range of manikins and ...
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Trust orders cardiac services review
A regional review of cardiac services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust is under way after an internal inquiry cleared a cardiac surgeon of allegations about his drinking and patient care.
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'Missing leaders' are urged to drive change
-NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton has called for the creation of a 'cadre of local leaders' to drive change in the health service.
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Private sector may strip NHS of staff
The private sector competes with the NHS and cannot expand without stripping it of staff, resources and patients, according to the King's Fund.
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Left holding the babies
Cathryn Leadstone, a pupil at Ormesby comprehensive school in Middlesbrough, with a pile of interactive dolls bought with funds from Teesside health action zone.
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Poll victory for A&E campaigners
Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster Hospital losing its accident and emergency department have scored a dramatic victory in the Wyre Forest district council elections, held on 4 May.
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Short Cuts: Equal pay victory for women speech therapists
Hundreds of NHS speech and language therapists will share £12m in back pay following the resolution of a 15-year 'equal pay' battle. The MSF union launched a claim in 1986 comparing the pay of 351 female speech and language therapists with professions dominated by men. The previous Conservative government fought ...
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Short Cuts: Doctors to vote on pay system to replace hourly rate
Junior doctors are set to issue their verdict on a new pay system this week. More than 30,000 ballot papers have been sent out by the British Medical Association as doctors decide whether to back proposals agreed with the Department of Health. The new scheme would replace the hourly rate ...