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Monitor has been sounding out Dr Mike Dixon about his antecedents. With that bow-tie and slightly nutty professor look, he does have something of the boffin about him, and it wouldn't have surprised Monitor to discover that the PCG Alliance boss was descended from the inventor of the steam-driven tieknotting ...
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Commons committee backs 'no-fault' plan
The Commons health select committee has given its backing to calls for the introduction of no-fault compensation schemes for the NHS.
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Mental health green paper includes forcible treatment
'Radical' reforms to mental health law will mean forcible treatment for community patients who refuse to take their medication.
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Appeal Court ruling on screening case will not hit national scheme
An Appeal Court decision that three women with cervical cancer should be compensated after the screening service at Kent and Canterbury Hospital missed abnormal smears is unlikely to have a major impact on the national screening programme, as previously feared.
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Split over future funding as £200m deficit looms
Managers' and doctors' leaders have split over the need for a fundamental re-think of NHS funding in the face of a £200m-plus deficit.
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Winning ways on show at HSJ awards night
Betty Boothroyd, speaker of the House of Commons, plays to the camera with David Low (left) and Bryan Knight of Sandwell Healthcare trust at HSJ 's health management awards presentation.
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Conservatives' favourite wants to 'reinvent internal market' in health service
The US academic credited with thinking up the ideas behind the Conservative reforms has suggested 'one good way forward' for the NHS would be to 'reinvent the internal market'.
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In Brief: Reporting adverse reactions to drugs
The 'yellow card' scheme for reporting adverse reactions to drugs to the Medicines Control Agency has been extended to community pharmacists. Junior health minister Lord Hunt said pilot projects had shown that reports submitted by community pharmacists were as good as those submitted by GPs and the extension would strengthen ...
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In Brief: Audit Scotland
A new agency, Audit Scotland, is being set up under the Public Finance and Accountancy (Scotland) Bill to assist the Scottish Parliament and its audit committee in holding the Scottish Executive, local government and public bodies to account.
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In Brief: Health information website
The government has launched a health information website aimed at 14 to 16-yearolds with advice on topics ranging from drugs and alcohol to acne. The information also ties into the national curriculum.
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In Brief: Sure Start approval
The first 15 schemes to be given full Sure Start approval have been announced by public health minister Yvette Cooper and education secretary David Blunkett. Twelve have been asked to build on ideas to help disadvantaged children for a second wave of approvals. A further 69 areas have been invited ...
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In Brief: Multimillion pound package to fight AIDS in Africa
Prime minister Tony Blair unveiled a multimillion pound package to fight AIDS in Africa at the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Durban. The move was welcomed by the National AIDS Trust, which says 16,000 people are infected with HIV every day, 70 per cent of them in Africa, while ...
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In Brief: Not recalling information pack
The NHS Executive is not recalling an information pack for potential NHS board members (news, page 2, 11 November) that includes incorrect job descriptions for primary care trust board members. It will be issuing corrective guidance in December.
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HAs will have powers to suspend doctors in performance reforms
Health authorities will be given the power to suspend incompetent GPs as part of a government drive against poorly performing doctors.
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Life's a beach
Eweka Azubuike tries out a sandpit at the New River Green Early Years Centre on the Marquess Estate in Islington, north London, watched by health minister John Hutton, her father Chieda Azubuike, and centre management committee chair Sandra Lawrence.
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Results of public consultation are widely ignored
Few public bodies actually use the results of public consultation to inform decisions about changing services, according to a study published yesterday by the Audit Commission.
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Waiting lists are 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable'
Waiting lists provide an 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable' method of rationing care and should be scrapped, according to the King's Fund.
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Outpatient appointments stretch to four years
Latest research by the College of Health says patients are being forced to wait as long as four years for an outpatient appointment.
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Private health row after OFT probe
A row over private medical insurance network schemes has flared up again following an Office of Fair Trading investigation that cleared BUPA and PPP Healthcare of anti-competitive behaviour.
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Heat is on government over long-term care
The chair of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care is to meet health secretary Alan Milburn to press for an urgent answer to its call for free personal care for elderly people.