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NHSnet 'is not millennium-compliant'
A key part of the NHS information strategy is not millennium-proof even though it was built less than five years ago, according to a report for the NHS Executive.
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Conservative reforms get Bristol scrutiny
The impact of the Conservative government's NHS reforms will come under the spotlight at the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Consultants are stripped of merit awards
Senior consultants have been stripped of merit awards for the first time by the Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards.
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White man's burden Proportion
White man's burden Proportion of awards to ethnic minorities (12.9 per cent of the consultant workforce in England and Wales).This year: 9.6 per cent; 1996 (the most recent year with which comparisons can be made - England only): 6.2 per cent.
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Get the picture?
Get the picture? motorcycle paramedic Andy Whatling puts a new lapel-mounted camera through its paces. The camera relays pictures to other system users via a belt-mounted computer.
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Staff-side divisions scupper pay talks
The much-trumpeted opening of talks on the government's proposed pay system for the NHS ended in shambles last week, with no agreed statement or date for further talks.
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Some winners, some losers, some still waiting
The distribution of a £60m 'award' for GPs has been agreed by health ministers and the British Medical Association.
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Shake-up for Scottish social care
The Scottish Office has outlined plans to improve the inspection of residential and nursing homes as part of a white paper on the modernisation of social services.
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Patient's death was suicide, says jury
A jury returned a suicide verdict last week at the end of an inquest into the death of Kevin Olley, 26, a patient at Lister Hospital, Stevenage, in April 1998.
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Light touch
Light touch: baby Zainab Bharwani and link worker Bimla Karra experience a multi-sensory room at Birmingham Community Children's Centre, while Zainab's mother, Shahnez Miah, looks on. The centre includes a clinic, therapy room, soft play area and facilities for local children and children with special needs.
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Welcome for report despite 'soundbite' summary
Managers have welcomed an independent report into Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary while criticising its summary as 'couched in soundbites'.
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HA slims down to fund PCGs
A health authority is to disband its commissioning department to fund primary care groups.
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Days like this
Internal market attacked as 'Maoist', 'eccentric', 'poorly managed'... true cost of white paper... waiting lists grow
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Vroom with a view
Look out at the car park adjoining the admin block of a typical trust and it should be possible to tell which car belongs to which manager. A VW Passat or Landrover Freelander - that will be the chief executive's. BMW 300 Series or Rover 620 - it must be ...
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The costs of change - financial implications of the Fallon recommendations
The costs of change - financial implications of the Fallon recommendations