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'No strings attached' funding plea
Health service managers issued a last minute pre-Budget plea to a government 'hooked on targets' to inject the NHS with 'cash without strings'.
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'Ethically wrong' to shift cigarette duties to NHS
Public health experts have condemned chancellor Gordon Brown's move to divert money from cigarette duties directly to the NHS as 'ethically wrong'.
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Budget's billions will push modernisation
Prime minister Tony Blair was yesterday due to announce a 'step change' in the government's modernisation of the NHS in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to invest billions of pounds in the service.
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'The bucket has too many holes'
Nick Bosanquet, professor of health policy at Imperial College London, said: 'The Treasury seems to have forgotten the key lesson across all parties of the past 15 years - you cannot quick-fix the NHS by throwing money at it. The NHS bucket has too many holes at the bottom. '
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In brief: London regional office
London regional office has set up a 'top to toe' review of emergency services and hospital critical care. Philip Brown, who coordinated millennium and winter planning, has been appointed to head the London emergency care project, which should start work in the next four weeks.
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In brief: Unison
Unison has called for London mayoral candidates to pledge themselves to its own 'manifesto' for public services in the capital.
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In brief: London Ambulance Service
London Ambulance Service trust has started two pilots for dispatching alternative response vehicles to routine maternity calls and non-urgent alarm-line calls. It receives 2,300 assistance-only and 7,800 routine maternity calls across London every year.
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In brief: Hospital chaplains
Hospital chaplains have rejected a three-year pay offer, with a 3. 25 per cent rise this year.
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In brief: NHS Information Authority
The NHS Information Authority has launched a service to help NHS-registered organisations to obtain patients' NHS numbers and administrative details. The first phase of the NHS Strategic Tracing Service builds on the existing Initial Tracing Service.
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In brief: Health service managers
Health service managers overwhelmingly back the idea of ending family doctors' independent contractor status, according to an HSJ website poll. By Tuesday lunchtime readers had voted 328 to 28 in favour of making NHS GPs salaried employees.
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Helpline given £1m to expand
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced a £1m expansion of the mental health work of NHS Direct.
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Fritchie calls for an end to local nominees on boards
Commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie has called for an end to local authority nominations for NHS chair and nonexecutive posts.
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Parents seek 'accountability' over Alder Hey organ scandal
Furious parents are demanding further action at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the chair was asked to leave last week.
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Sackings sparked by 'abuse' review
An external review of North Lakeland Healthcare trust has led to the sacking of its chair and the suspension of a number of senior managers.
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IT strategy defended after 'hiccup'
The billion-pound NHS IT strategy has been vigorously defended against accusations that it is failing to deliver results.
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Confidentiality body to advise Caldicott 'guardians'
A National Confidentiality and Security Advisory Body will be established to provide advice to local 'guardians' of patient confidentiality - appointed in the wake of the Caldicott report - and promote best practice on the confidentiality of patient information. It will also advise ministers and NHS bodies on a wide ...
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Birmingham HA chair opts to move closer to home
Bryan Stoten, the long-serving chair of Birmingham health authority, will take over as chair of Warwickshire HA on 1 April. Mr Stoten recently announced his intention to stand down from his present post, citing the government's stipulation that non-executives should live in the area served by their organisation. He has ...
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Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors
The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...
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Health minister launches trust's anti-violence policy
An anti-violence policy has been launched by junior health minister Gisela Stuart at Sandwell Healthcare trust, where 38 per cent of staff have been subjected to violence or aggression at work in the past 12 months. The policy, which is part of the government's zero-tolerance zone campaign, includes training for ...