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Communal living
The second wave of personal medical services pilots brings a greater degree of flexibility to primary care, but presents challenges for HAs as well, write Richard Lewis and Rigo Pizarro
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Lib Dem attacks NICE's 'hidden' rationing role
The Liberal Democrats' promise to adopt a 'more trenchant oppositionist approach' to the government was delivered in an attack on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence by the party's former health spokesman, Dr Evan Harris.
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In Brief: The NHS working group on continence services
The NHS working group on continence services has reported and ministers are considering its recommendations, said health minister John Hutton. 'We hope to publish the guidance in the near future, ' he added.
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In Brief: DOH spending for support of 'special activities'
The Department of Health spent just over £500,000 providing central support for 'special activities' during the NHS 50th anniversary year in 1998, said health minister John Denham.
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In Brief: Expenditure on external consultants and advisers
Expenditure on external consultants and advisers by the DoH (including the NHS Executive) has halved from £14.4m in the last year of the Conservative government to £7.1m in 1998-99, according to figures revealed by junior health minister Gisele Stuart.
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Monitor
Monitor has been sounding out Dr Mike Dixon about his antecedents. With that bow-tie and slightly nutty professor look, he does have something of the boffin about him, and it wouldn't have surprised Monitor to discover that the PCG Alliance boss was descended from the inventor of the steam-driven tieknotting ...
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Commons committee backs 'no-fault' plan
The Commons health select committee has given its backing to calls for the introduction of no-fault compensation schemes for the NHS.
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Mental health green paper includes forcible treatment
'Radical' reforms to mental health law will mean forcible treatment for community patients who refuse to take their medication.
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Appeal Court ruling on screening case will not hit national scheme
An Appeal Court decision that three women with cervical cancer should be compensated after the screening service at Kent and Canterbury Hospital missed abnormal smears is unlikely to have a major impact on the national screening programme, as previously feared.
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Split over future funding as £200m deficit looms
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
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
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
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
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.