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Social services checks find one in four 'failing'
A quarter of the social services departments scrutinised by the Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate are failing and show little prospect of improving, says a report published this week.
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National Audit Office report shows trusts miss their financial targets
Four trusts missed all three financial targets last year, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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Angry GPs' leaders divide along fundholding faultline in debate over future direction of PCGs
GP leaders from across the old fundholding divide have clashed over the future direction of primary care groups.
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Ministers claim reform schedule is 'realistic'
Ministers this week outlined what they called a 'demanding' but 'realistic' timetable for implementing the next stages of their health service reforms.
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Monitor
Monitor's aura is positively shimmering with dismay at having missed last week's conference in Lancaster on 'faith in healing and healthcare provision', with its sessions on shamanism, circle and cross dances and 'angelic influences', whatever they might be. University College of St Martin, which organised the event, is clearly displaying ...
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Reality cheque
So pounds21bn sounds like a lot of money, but how much of it is really headed your way?
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How other departments fare
On top of the boost for health service funding, the NHS will be hoping public health benefits will stem indirectly from other initiatives announced in the comprehensive spending review.
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Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland: modernising on a more modest scale
Secretary of state for Scotland Donald Dewar announced an investment programme of pounds1.8bn over three years to create the 'most modern health service in Europe' while tackling waiting lists and rising demand.
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Doctors' orders
Family doctors have regrouped into new professional organisations to meet the challenge of primary care groups. Lyn Whitfield examines their differences
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Staffordshire terrier
The controversial figure of Roger Thayne has been snapping at heels - and not for the first time.
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Gordon Brown's billions fall into perspective
Realism returns after initial excitement over the chancellor's pounds21bn
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An internal war smoulders on for the soul of commissioning
Despite the end of fundholding, old enmities continue
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Why this punishing schedule?
The past eight months have been revolutionary, and the scale of change has taken most of us by surprise. A few months ago it was all quiet on the policy front.
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WEB WATCH
How long before all those nhs-scot.uk website addresses lose their final two letters? As the development of Scottish Health on the Web goes on, so the gap between the NHS north and south of the border becomes ever more apparent. And that's before anyone starts to think about the Scottish ...
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Bliss was it in that dawn as Santa Brown dealt the dosh
So difficult to get the tone right on these occasions, isn't it?' the Queen once remarked as her then prime minister explained away a sterling crisis to sceptical voters on TV. Watching MPs struggling with their response to Frank Dobson after he had done his Big Spender's lap of honour ...
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Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show.
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Lighthouse will stay at home in pounds2m rescue package deal
The London Lighthouse HIV and AIDS charity appears to have won its battle to stay in its purpose built premises - but its residential services are still set to close.
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Sceptical MPs damp down cash boost euphoria
The government's triumphant multi-billion pound boost for the NHS was left tarnished this week by MPs' allegations that it put a 'misleading' gloss on the real pounds8.8bn increase over three years by double and triple counting.
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Small screen
Small screen, big picture: health secretary Frank Dobson caught on video at the conference of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales last week. He told CHCs that he wanted to keep their role 'in view'.