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Government hits back over north-south 'gap'
The government this week launched an offensive against claims that its social exclusion agenda has done little to tackle the root causes of poverty and a widening north-south divide.
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Mo Mowlam's new role
Dr Mowlam has been charged with giving the Cabinet a 'reality-check' to test whether initiatives to tackle poverty 'are really working on the ground'.
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Milburn orders inquiry into Alder Hey heart scandal
Health secretary Alan Milburn has launched an independent inquiry into organ removal at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
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PCGs urged to meet alternative medicine costs
Doctors have urged primary care groups to pay for alternative medicine such as acupuncture.
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Short Cuts: Numbers on nursing register fall to seven-year low
Annual statistics published by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting show the number of people on its register has fallen to a seven-year low. The number of people registered fell 3,220 to 634,229 last year. But the number leaving the register fell and the number joining ...
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Short Cuts: UN commissions NHS Estates team to tackle bug
NHS Estates has been commissioned by the United Nations International Year 2000 Cooperation Centre to manage a project taking help and advice on millennium bug issues to health services in developing countries. The Reconstitution Project for Health will run alongside similar global schemes covering communications, energy, finance and transport and ...
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Short Cuts: £1m ads to ease pressure on emergency services
The NHS has launched its £1m nation-wide advertising campaign to help people 'consider the full range of healthcare options available to them' before calling an ambulance or heading for accident and emergency. The campaign features a medicine cabinet with the contents highlighting options, including looking after yourself and using local ...
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Short Cuts: HA looks into financial mismanagement allegations
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority has instigated an internal investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement made by its finance director, Roger Silvester. Mr Silvester was suspended in May following comments at a public board meeting at which he refused to accept the HA's plans for £4m cuts to ...
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Short Cuts: Scots secure psychiatric services at 'crisis point'
A shortage of secure psychiatric beds and an increase in referrals mean psychiatric services in Scotland have reached crisis point, according to the annual report of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. It says the State Hospital at Carstairs, which provides high-security beds for Scotland and Northern Ireland, will become ...
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Short Cuts: Three candidates for Unison general secretary
Unison has announced that three candidates have received enough nominations to stand for election as general secretary. They are Roger Bannister, Knowsley branch secretary, nominated by one regional council and 66 branches; Malkiat Bilku from London regional branch, nominated by 33 branches; and Dave Prentis, deputy general secretary, nominated by ...
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Government stalls on long term care again
The government's decision on who should fund long-term care has been put off until next summer - more than a year after a royal commission recommended that the state should foot the bill.
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MPs' ignorance shown
Lack of knowledge about mental health laws does not stop MPs claiming a 'specific interest' in mental health, according to a survey by mental health charity MACA.
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Sense of portrayal
Former Bethlem and Maudsley trust chief executive Eric Byers, as seen by artist Joely Goodman, who painted 30 portraits of trust executives and service users for a series titled A Portrayal of the Psychiatric System.
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Bottomley challenges Milburn on 'dire' NHS
Former Conservative health secretary Virginia Bottomley says the NHS in her West Surrey constituency is in a 'dire' state and has called for health secretary Alan Milburn to see the extent of bed blocking and trolley waits for himself.
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Trusts set to merge after volatile spell
The management of two neighbouring community trusts is to merge after a turbulent spell in which both were temporarily without chief executives.
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Days like this
Lobby opposes NHS Bill. . . Managers want reforms scaled down. . .£103m for IT. . . New DoH deputy secretary. . . Hospital plan opposed
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Troubles ahead
Northern Ireland's new health minister will have to contend with stretched resources and rivals who are suspicious of her every move, writes Seamus Ward
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Publish and be damned
Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield
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Warming to hotspots: Barry Elliott
Incoming HFMA chair Barry Elliott is a man used to political hotspots. Since joining the NHS in 1983 - he spent his early career in local government - he has worked in a number of areas inextricably associated with newspaper headlines.
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Loss cause
Eighty-five ex-employees of a privatised NHS consultancy who lost their pensions when it went to the wall have reached a settlement - but the fight goes on for those still awaiting justice. Patrick Butler reports