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Lottery cash sparks query on future NHS funding
The Patients Association has called for the government to 'come clean' about the future of NHS funding after pledging new Lottery money to improve home care for cancer patients.
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Milburn looks to policy implications of Shipman
Health secretary Alan Milburn has moved to defend the family doctor service after the Shipman murder trial.
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Audit Commission shake-up will change work with NHS
The Audit Commission has proposed substantial changes to the way it works with the NHS, including an overhaul of its high-profile value for money studies.
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Amputations spark Scottish probe
The Scottish Executive is investigating trusts' procedures for staff to consult with boards following the controversial amputation of healthy limbs in private operations at Falkirk Royal Hospital.
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New tier of care for elderly set to follow national beds inquiry
A new tier of healthcare for elderly people was due to be announced yesterday as part of health secretary Alan Milburn's modernisation crusade.
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CHI won't take action in wrong kidney incident
The Commission for Health Improvement is unlikely to use its investigative 'teeth' in the first high-profile medical 'blunder' to come to light since its inception.
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Time for tea
An elderly patient tucks in while waiting for a bed at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, during the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales' annual Casualty Watch on Monday. The longest waits revealed by the snapshot of 240 accident and emergency departments were both at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow: ...
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Poverty plays a major role in risk of cot death, report says
The largest ever study of cot deaths in the UK has found that babies born into poor families are at a far greater risk than those born to better-off parents.
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NHS 'on course' for New Deal job target, Denham announces
Health minister John Denham has announced that the NHS has now managed to employ 348 people under the New Deal initiative.
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Days like this
Blame 'causing exodus'. . . Nurses unhappy over ads. . . New healthcare grade. . . Consultants 'breaching contracts'. . . £2m strike bill. . .
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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference
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Variable interest
Given a government obsessed, some would say, with inspection in the NHS, what will the Audit Commission's future role in healthcare be? Lyn Whitfield reports
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Terry Hanafin: 'That job's got my name on it'
Terry Hanafin joined the Audit Commission in October from Croydon health authority, where he was chief executive.
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Moving story
An adult placement scheme for residents of a long-stay hospital that is due to close has provoked controversy, writes Colin Wright
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How the scheme will work
'We believe that we shall have some patients placed in the community soon, although the transfer will be incremental rather than a large number transferring at once, ' says Sue Newton, development manager with charity PSS.
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So we're all agreed, then
Dysfunctional boards, power games and cover-ups - there were as many issues as opinions at a seminar on performance, writes Paul Stephenson