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'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it'
Hospitals have buckled under the strain of this year’s winter pressures. Thelma Agnew and Laura Donnelly report HSJ’s findings, as health secretary Frank Dobson gives his verdict:
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Capital punishment
A snapshot survey of A&E departments highlights lengthy waits for admission in many London hospitals even before the holiday pressures began.
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Time-wasters
About half the calls made to Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service over the holiday period were a 'waste of time', claims trust spokesman Phil Morris.
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A matter of trust
One challenge of merging health and social services in a pioneering trust is allaying the fears of both camps that the other will dominate, writes Pat Healy.
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Culture shock
Paddy Cooney seems particularly well qualified for his job as chief executive of the Avalon Somerset trust, due to become the integrated mental health provider Somerset Partnership on 1 April.
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Enquiring mind
The late Brendan Devlin's contribution to evaluating surgical practice was ahead of its time and has had a lasting impact. Kaye McIntosh reports.
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Projects Editor
We are looking for a new member of the team to help develop a range of activities branded with the HSJ name. Part of this role will be to establish how wide-ranging these activities should be, but we expect they will cover conferences, debates, seminars, awards, online services, briefing papers, ...
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Short cuts: Hayman details £10m of colorectal cancer projects
Junior health minister Baroness Hayman has unveiled details of how £10m set aside for improving colorectal cancer services will be spent. Examples include £104,000 for a 'fast-track' clinic in Eastbourne and £36,000 for Birmingham Women's Hospital to investigate genetic links in the disease, which kills 20,000 people a year. Health ...
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Short cuts: PFI-funded hospital to go ahead on greenfield site
Swindon and Marlborough trust has been given planning permission for a replacement for Princess Margaret Hospital after deputy prime minister John Prescott decided not to call the plans in for a public inquiry. The private finance initiative-funded hospital will be built on a greenfield site on the edge of Swindon, ...
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Short cuts: Trusts told to set up 'robust' breast cancer systems
Trust chief executives have been told to put 'robust systems in place' to track urgent referrals from GPs involving suspected breast cancer. Trusts will also be expected to monitor referrals from February to 'test the new reporting instructions' and provide updates for health authorities on progress towards meeting the government's ...
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Short cuts: Alliance against assault follows smacking research
An alliance has been launched under the name Children are Unbeatable! to lobby for children to be given the same legal protection against assault as adults. Around 200 organisations, including a number of medical royal colleges, are involved. The Department of Health last week received research from Save the Children ...
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Short cuts: New test for surgeons' hand-eye co-ordination
A computer test aimed at assessing whether a surgeon has sufficient hand- to-eye co-ordination to profit from training in keyhole techniques has been developed by the psychology department of Hull University, with funding from East Yorkshire Hospitals trust. The test measures the speed and accuracy with which a subject can ...
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Short cuts: First Scots integrated health and social care facility
The Scottish Office has given the go-ahead for an £11m integrated health and social care facility - the first of its kind in Scotland.
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Glasgow kiss
A partnership board set up to approach service changes in a co-operative spirit has had impressive results. Barbara Millar reports
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Ring in the new as Denham starts with a clean slate Milburn's successor arrives without the baggage of manager-bashing
With one bound he was free. By Christmas eve, Alan Milburn had been relieved of the trials and tribulations of the new NHS reforms for a seat at the Cabinet table as overlord of all public spending - thanks at least in part to the proof copy of a forthcoming ...
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Pay, not PR, is the solution Ministers must get to the heart of nurse shortages - and winter crises
Another new year, another clutch of 'NHS in crisis' headlines bespatters the national newspapers. The pattern is a classic, if not quite perennial, one: widespread outbreaks of flu lead to more patients presenting in accident and emergency departments, while on the wards the same outbreaks lead to elderly people blocking ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
So you finally managed to get your home computer linked up to the Internet over Christmas.