Latest news – Page 2671

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    Split over future funding as £200m deficit looms

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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'

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Quality of life 'central'

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance has called for quality of life for people with long-term conditions to be a 'central plank' of the government's work on greater social inclusion.

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    £20m blow forces recovery plan on HA and six PCGs

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    A London health authority, six primary care groups and two hospitals have been forced to draw up a recovery plan to cope with deficits and a loss of funding totalling £20m.

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    Short Cuts: Lib Dems hit out over 'sneaking rationing into NICE'

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The government has been accused of 'sneaking rationing' into the remit of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris condemned the government's 'dishonesty' in amending the statutory instrument establishing NICE. The first draft of the instrument says NICE 'shall perform such functions in accordance with ...

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    Short Cuts: Stroke Association warning coincides with inquiry

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The Stroke Association is planning to highlight the link between smoking and stroke as the Commons health select committee starts its inquiry into the tobacco industry and the health risks of smoking today. The Stroke Association says stroke costs the NHS and social services £2.3bn a year, with about a ...