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Wanted: feet to fill big shoes
Any structural shake-ups following Sir Alan Langlands' departure must get to grips with how the centre relates to local service providers, writes Stephen Thornton
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That was then. . .
The evolution of British general practice 18501948 By Anne Digby Oxford University Press 376 pages £48
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Childbearing witness
Race and childbirth By Savita Katbamna Open University Press 157 pages £18. 99 paperback
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Mind over a difficult matter
Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30
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Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.
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'No strings attached' funding plea
Health service managers issued a last minute pre-Budget plea to a government 'hooked on targets' to inject the NHS with 'cash without strings'.
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'Ethically wrong' to shift cigarette duties to NHS
Public health experts have condemned chancellor Gordon Brown's move to divert money from cigarette duties directly to the NHS as 'ethically wrong'.
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Budget's billions will push modernisation
Prime minister Tony Blair was yesterday due to announce a 'step change' in the government's modernisation of the NHS in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to invest billions of pounds in the service.
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'The bucket has too many holes'
Nick Bosanquet, professor of health policy at Imperial College London, said: 'The Treasury seems to have forgotten the key lesson across all parties of the past 15 years - you cannot quick-fix the NHS by throwing money at it. The NHS bucket has too many holes at the bottom. '
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In brief: London regional office
London regional office has set up a 'top to toe' review of emergency services and hospital critical care. Philip Brown, who coordinated millennium and winter planning, has been appointed to head the London emergency care project, which should start work in the next four weeks.
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In brief: Unison
Unison has called for London mayoral candidates to pledge themselves to its own 'manifesto' for public services in the capital.
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In brief: London Ambulance Service
London Ambulance Service trust has started two pilots for dispatching alternative response vehicles to routine maternity calls and non-urgent alarm-line calls. It receives 2,300 assistance-only and 7,800 routine maternity calls across London every year.
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In brief: Hospital chaplains
Hospital chaplains have rejected a three-year pay offer, with a 3. 25 per cent rise this year.
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In brief: NHS Information Authority
The NHS Information Authority has launched a service to help NHS-registered organisations to obtain patients' NHS numbers and administrative details. The first phase of the NHS Strategic Tracing Service builds on the existing Initial Tracing Service.
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In brief: Health service managers
Health service managers overwhelmingly back the idea of ending family doctors' independent contractor status, according to an HSJ website poll. By Tuesday lunchtime readers had voted 328 to 28 in favour of making NHS GPs salaried employees.
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Helpline given £1m to expand
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced a £1m expansion of the mental health work of NHS Direct.
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Fritchie calls for an end to local nominees on boards
Commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie has called for an end to local authority nominations for NHS chair and nonexecutive posts.