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Short Cuts: Exercise-promotion scheme receives £6.4m grant
The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £6.4m grant to encourage more people to walk, combating inactivity and ill-health.The award to the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation will support 200 'walking the way for health schemes' to be launched in September.These will be conducted walks of about two ...
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Short Cuts: Heat and power plant saves trust £780,000 a year
The Royal Free Hampstead trust is saving £780,000 a year with a combined heat and power plant that allows 70 per cent of fuel to be conver ted into energy. The trust says 27 per cent of fuel is conver ted into energy in a conventional power station. Some of ...
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Short Cuts: London action team to review emergency services
London regional office has announced the membership of an action team set up to review emergency services across the capital.Philip Brown, director of information development, who led preparations for last winter in the capital, is heading the project, which also includes clinicians, trust and health authority chief executives and managers, ...
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Short Cuts: PFI project signing ensures £66m hospital for Wales
The largest private finance initiative project in Wales has been signed and sealed, Bro Morgannwg trust has announced.The trust admits that managers and developer Baglan Moor Healthcare plc 'toiled through the night' last week to ensure the £66m needed for the hospital for Neath and Port Talbot could be raised ...
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Room on top
A construction worker watches as Northallerton Healthcare trust expands its ward accommodation at Friarage Hospital. A modu lar construction method is be ing used to reduce build ing time from 12 months to 26 weeks.
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Deacon warned as more winter crises lie in wait
A working group to look at ways of tackling winter pressures in Scotland has held its first meeting amid warnings of continuing pressure on 'fragmented' services.
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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Manager's departure adds to uncertainty
The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.
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Confederation should be less 'Anglo-centric'
Devolution has prompted the NHS Confederation to consider developing a separate Scottish organisation.
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PCGs under pressure to rush status change
Political pressure to produce rapid results and move to primary care trust status may be undermining the ability of primary care groups to achieve long-term change, a report has warned.
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Best practice group will aid development of co-operatives
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is seeking to kick-start the continuing development of local health care cooperatives with a new group to spread best practice.
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Days like this
Plans to cut London's non-emergency ambulance budget by 12 per cent have been rejected in favour of income generation proposals, but the LAS will still shift resources from routine to emergency services. Options include raising more from the sale of old vehicles, normally sold cheaply at auction, and charging more ...
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Trial and error
The deaths of premature babies at North Staffordshire Hospital have proved that the NHS still needs to change radically the way it regards patients.Kaye McIntosh reports on the latest lesson the NHS can't afford to ignore
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Absolutely fabulous
The New Health Network, set up to champion change by enthusing NHS staff, now has a chief executive who oozes enthusiasm and wants others to be as ecstatic.Lyn Whitfield reports
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Extremely simulating
HSJ 's Management Challenge gave contestants a vivid insight into the demands of their jobs - and one vowed to be nice to the city council for the rest of her life.Tash Shifrin was there
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Late tackle
The government wants NHS staff to help in the fight against crime.But there are misgivings that such collaboration will undermine patient confidentiality. Lynn Eaton reports
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WEB WATCH
What a bunch of clever clogs they are down at the Department of Health.NHSnet fell over, companies worldwide had to close down their computer systems, and even the US National Security Agency suffered a security breach.But apparently the DoH had no problems at all with the 'love bug'.