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Cash for cancer dogged by Lottery row
A £150m Lottery cash boost for cancer care provoked a row this week as managers called for a more consistent investment programme and a leading cancer specialist accused them of allowing essential machinery to go to 'rack and ruin'.
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Days like this
NHS managers are urging the government to fully fund next year's pay award to nurses and midwives after staffside evidence to the pay review body recommended a 12 per cent increase, costing £1bn. National Association of Health Authorities director Philip Hunt said there was a need to address recruitment issues, ...
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Children's hour
Health secretary Frank Dobson last week promised to revive Britain's ailing school health service as part of a drive to improve child health which would also see local authorities taking responsibility for children in care up to the age of 18.
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Opportunity knocks
'For the first time, a government is standing up to be counted - setting specific standards against which we'll be judged, tackling poverty and its causes,' social security secretary Alistair Darling declared last week.
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WEB WATCH
'For many years all that could be seen of the new British Library was the building site through a hole in the boards thoughtfully created by the builders, knowing how fascinating most of us find the creation of a large building,' writes the development team for the new National Electronic ...