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GPs accuse ministers of ignoring PCT fury
Family doctors have launched a furious attack on two of the final group of first-wave primary care trusts.
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£30,000 for new board doctors
GPs who lead the first primary care trusts stand to receive more than £30,000 a year on top of their existing salaries.
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Days like this
A political party funded to fight the NHS reforms has launched itself in prime minister Margaret Thatcher s constituency . Three GP's, from England, Scotland and Wales, have set up the NHS Supporters Party with the aim of forcing the government to rethink its health policy. It plans to fight ...
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The famous five
Tony Blair's bold talk in a TV interview of a 5 per cent spending increase for the NHS sparked much debate as to what he really meant. Patrick Butler sifts through the evidence
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Funny money: figuring it out
With UK expenditure on health at 6.7 per cent of gross domestic product the consensus is that the Treasury will have to find £12bn over the next five years to match the EU average health spend of 8 per cent of GDP .
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How much does Europe spend anyway?
The assumption that the European spending average is 8 per cent has also been questioned. John Appleby , director of the King's Fund health systems programme, calculates that the real figure is 8.6 per cent. While minuscule, the 0.6 per cent equates to £5.6bn on a GDP of £890bn. This ...
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Global warning
The flu epidemic has sparked concerns about how the health service would cope with a pandemic - and one may be imminent. Wendy Moore reports
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Just good friends
It takes a certain sort of person to become an NHS board member: someone who cares passionately about the health service, someone who knows their local community and, ideally , someone who has some experience of picking their way through a political minefield.
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Dissenting voices
Over the millennium celebration period the NHS Direct service in west London had a team of up to 30 nurses answering more than 1,800 calls a day.
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HAI big spender
When Gordon Vassell was admitted to a north London hospital for a double hernia operation, he expected to be home again within a few days. He ended up in isolation for two weeks.
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Aspirational cash has never been more needed
And still the onslaught persists. The health services first month in the new century has been as turbulent as any in its history. The past week alone has seen the national press's anti-NHS lobby mount the second wave of its attack, deploying such trusty old war-horses as the continuing existence ...
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Act now on infertility services
Managers need no reminder of the fragile nature of politicians promises, but this week has produced a timely one, nonetheless. Remember the pledge to end the postcode lottery of infertility service provision? The author of government guidelines - published only last week, and aimed at helping to do just that ...