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Acute pressure begins to build as Hutt issues winter advice
Welsh trusts were running at full capacity last week as guidance aimed at relieving acute pressures next winter was issued by health secretary Jane Hutt.
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Payout packages attacked by MSPs
Scottish opposition parties have attacked the £2.8m paid in early retirement packages to senior NHS managers as part of trust restructuring.
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Tayside finds way to cut £6.3m from debt
Cash-strapped Tayside University Hospitals trust has agreed a package of measures to reduce its deficit by £6.3m a year to balance the books by the end of March 2002.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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'Shocked' CHCs bite back in row over abolition
Patient watchdogs have attacked the government's NHS plan, warning it will reduce public monitoring of the NHS despite its supposed 'patient focus'.
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Something to chew on
A reporter finds a novel use for the NHS plan after receiving a copy at the Department of Health's Richmond House headquarters in London.
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Livingstone heads for fluoride dispute
Cracks have appeared in the relationship between the Greater London Assembly and London regional office over whether to put fluoride in the capital's water.
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Plans for pay system and bonuses take flak
Talks on a new pay system for the health service have stalled, while the NHS plan's proposals for 'cash incentives' for staff performance have sparked union anger.
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In Brief: public consultation on two mental health strategies
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has launched public consultation on two mental health strategies for Wales - one covering adult services and one on provision for children and adolescents.
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In Brief: Welsh waiting lists have dipped
Welsh waiting lists have dipped by 300, prompting Ms Hutt to say she expected to see 'further falls in coming months'.On 30 June, 80,969 patients were waiting for inpatient or day-case treatment, down from 81,251 at the end of May.The number of people waiting more than 18 months fell by ...
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In Brief: single regeneration budget funding
London mayor Ken Livingstone has announced that 28 out of 46 successful bids for single regeneration budget funding involve health promotion. More than £300m of SRB money is available over the next seven years.
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In Brief: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has received a $40m donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a programme of work on malaria.
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In Brief: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority is overseeing consultation on the creation of two primary care trusts for East Hampshire and Portsmouth City, the second of which would involve changes to current primary care group boundaries to align the PCT with local authority boundaries.
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In Brief: 'mismatches' causing problems
In her annual report, chief inspector of social services Denise Platt has said 'mismatches' between local authority and primary care group boundaries are causing problems - particularly in highly populated areas such as London.
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In Brief: Christie Hospital trust
Crowds attending the Royal Horticultural Society flower show at Tatton Park, Cheshire, threw £9,000 into a collecting urn for Manchester cancer centre the Christie Hospital trust.
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Charity-probe couple to receive public funds
North Cheshire health authority is to underwrite redundancy payouts to a couple at the centre of allegations of financial irregularities at a charity for adults with learning difficulties.
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Concerns for NHSnet as e-mail law threatens patients' privacy
Health leaders have warned that patient confidentiality may be seriously undermined by government plans to allow the security services to monitor Internet traffic and intercept private e-mails.
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House visit
People with multiple sclerosis picket the Department of Health's Richmond House headquarters, wearing gags to protest at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's refusal to hear their views on MS drugs.
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Think radically on debt, beleaguered HA told
A 'radical rethink of management and accountability issues' is needed at debt-ridden West Surrey health authority, according to a report by an independent advisory panel.
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Strike looms as PFI wrangle rumbles on
The NHS Executive has warned a trust facing strike action over a private finance initiative project that renegotiating the deal would have a 'very considerable service and financial impact' across the NHS.