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MPs from all three major parties have written an open letter to junior health minister John Hutton expressing concern that the government may discourage NHS funding of beta interferon. They want the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to draw up multiple sclerosis treatment guidelines 'as a matter of urgency'.
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Health minister John Denham has ordered a three-month public consultation on proposals to merge Hull and Holderness Community Health trust and East Yorkshire Community Healthcare trust. Meanwhile, ministers have approved the merger of Bedford and Shires Health and Care trust with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare trust on 1 April. Durham ...
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Doctors at Guy's Hospital, London, are angry over growing rumours that it will be among the first to opt out of health authority control. 'It is a matter of substantial embarrassment to most of us that the professor of surgery, Ian McColl, is talking about Guy's opting out as though ...
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Gloucestershire companies have been asked to sponsor local NHS beds, wards, nurses and even whole hospitals in a bid to raise money by Cheltenham and District HA. General manager Jim Hammond has ruled out large neon signs promoting firms at hospital gates, but a 'tasteful advertisement' or 'discreet logo' may ...
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Health secretary Kenneth Clarke has dismissed calls for the Department of Health to take over responsibility for food policy from the Ministry of Agriculture. He told the Commons agriculture committee's inquiry into salmonella in eggs that liaison between the two departments worked well.
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East Anglian regional health authority is to pioneer white paper proposals on competition between hospitals. 'We have been talking about internal NHS marketing for 18 months. If this is the way the NHS is going to go, East Anglian wants to be at the forefront,' said a spokesman.
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The government has acknowledged it would be impractical to set up an NHS internal market 'overnight', in evidence to the Commons social services select committee. Its strategy was to create 'greater freedom for health authorities to ensure that the resources flow to those providers which attract most patients'.
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'Almost all' NHS organisations met last year's 31 December deadline for safeguarding date-sensitive computers against the millennium bug, according to the NHS Executive. But the Executive is anticipating a drop in the number of trusts reporting 'satisfactory' or 'good' progress due to tougher human resources and emergency planning targets. Public ...