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NAO forecasts in-year overspend of £200m
The NHS is facing a £200m in-year overspend for the financial year just ended, the National Audit Office forecast this week.
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Three-year jail term for £400,000 betting spree
An NHS manager who gambled over £400,000 of social security payments in betting sprees was jailed this week.
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High ambition
student nurse Sarah Roles peers down on the Houses of Parliament from the London Eye, before joining colleagues to lobby MPs for better pay. The lobby is part of a Unison campaign to restore salary and employee status to boost students' income.
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Question of attitude
How much do corporate culture and staff attitudes change when trusts merge? One trust surveyed staff before and after the process to find out. Louise Wallace and colleagues report
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Getting the wind up
Why won't health professionals write concise, accessible English? Tim Albert laments a culture of verbosity and pretension
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Income distribution
With Labour's Budgets showing evidence of old-style redistribution, perhaps the NHS could set a trend by looking at its own income inequalities, says John Appleby
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Boys will be boys
Men's health Perspectives, diversity and paradox Mike Luck, Margaret Bamford and Peter Williamson Blackwell Science 288 pages £18.99
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Giving a big OK to R&D
Change-promoting research for health services A guide for resource managers, research and development commissioners and researchers By Selwyn St Leger and Jo Walsworth-Bell Open University Press 236 pages £22.50
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More of a common touch needed
Practising evidence-based geriatrics By Sharon Straus and David Sackett Radcliffe Medical Press 165 pages £30
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in brief: Waiting lists
Waiting lists dropped by 30,900 in February to 1,087,800. The latest figures bring the government to within 30,000 of its manifesto commitment to cut waiting lists by 100,000 within this parliament.
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in brief: Unison
Unison has pledged to sue trusts and manufacturers in Scotland if health workers are injured by syringes, in an attempt to force employers to use 'safe' needlesticks.
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in brief: Domestic violence
The NHS should do more to help victims of domestic violence, public health minister Yvette Cooper has said while launching a manual for health professionals.
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in brief: Shaping Tomorrow
Doctors' leaders are to write to every local GP representative in the country asking them for their vision of the future of general practice. British Medical Association GPs' committee chair Dr John Chisholm is to ask local medical committees to arrange meetings to discuss ideas outlined in the committee's book, ...
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in brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn is wrong to distrust health authorities with modernisistion money, according to health service insiders. In a lift to HAs, 58 per cent of visitors to HSJ's website who voted on the question of the week did not back Mr Milburn. Forty-two per cent supported his stance.
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in brief: Incorrect issue numbers
Two of the issue numbers published in recent editions of HSJ are incorrect. The issue of 23 March 2000, wrongly identified as no. 5695, is in fact 5697. The issue of 30 March, identified as no. 5696 is, in fact, 5698. This week's edition is no. 5699. We apologise for ...
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Patients transferred as GPs wind down PCG
GPs have voted to disband a west London primary care group in the first case of its kind.
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HA chair resigns in protest over 'bypass' plans for Budget money
A health authority chair has resigned in protest at the government's claim that Budget money would bypass HAs.
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Chief executive to step down with £4.2m deficit uncleared
West Sussex health authority's controversial chief executive Peter Catchpole is to leave for a new career, having failed to clear the HA's historic deficit.