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Galbraith is asked to explain board sackings
A university principal has written to Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith saying he wants an explanation for the sacking of four non- executive directors from Tayside health board before he will nominate someone to fill one of the vacant posts.
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Glimmer of hope for Lighthouse after Treasury approves emergency loan
A London health authority has been given Treasury approval to make a loan of up to pounds925,000 to keep the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS going until the end of
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Naeem Chaudry from Edinburgh's new interpretation and translation service shows Edinburgh Royal Infirmary clerical officer Annette Perfect (far left) and auxiliary nurse Christina Johnston how patients can request its services using leaflets printed in different languages. ITS can provide interpreters and translations in 30 languages. It can also provide signers ...
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Ashworth managers 'retreat' over shift patterns
Managers at the troubled Ashworth top-security hospital are set to reverse unpopular working patterns, union officials claimed this week.
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Scots trusts told to open PFI plans to public scrutiny
Scottish trusts have been told to open up key private finance initiative documents to public scrutiny.
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Parting of ways on Whitechapel project
A trust involved in a high-profile private finance initiative project parted company with its private partner last week.
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Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths
Hospital deaths and emergency admissions have fallen dramatically at trusts taking part in a programme to tackle poor clinical outcomes.
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Primary care group money fails to quell fears as GPs deliver ultimatum
Ministers last week pledged a pounds22m boost for the new primary care groups but failed to allay doctors' fears about the way the changes are being managed.
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Holy alliance:
Holy alliance: Reverend John Palin, chaplain for Doncaster Healthcare trust, in front of one of six new hand-crafted stained glass windows in St Catherine's chapel at the multi-faith Spiritual Care Centre, which recently opened in Tickhill Road Hospital's former Oak ward. Local artist Alan Moston created the windows, which depict ...
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Ministers move cautiously on pooled budgets
Pooled budgets for health and social services will eventually be introduced but they are not a 'magic wand' for breaking down inter-agency barriers, MPs heard last week.
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IN BRIEF
The British Medical Association's council has voted unanimously to join the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which is calling for a 'once and for all' cancellation of third world debt. Council chair Sandy Macara has already written to the prime minister and senior government figures urging them to take a lead on ...
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MPs 'shocked' at wait for cataract ops in Scotland
The NHS in Scotland has come under fire from MPs for a failure to achieve targets for cataract surgery and so realise annual savings of pounds1.5m.
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Bona Lisa:
Bona Lisa: one of the 20 images on show at the Wellcome Trust's Two10 gallery in the sixth of a series of exhibitions 'exploring the relationship between contemporary medical science and art'. This picture shows a 2.8mm sample of bone from an 89-year-old woman with osteoporosis.The biomedical image awards - ...
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Row over cause of ambulance response rate fall
Managers have disputed claims of a sharp decline in ambulance response rates in south-west London following the reduction of accident and emergency services.
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This time next year, a new UK association for public health could be up and running.
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What's in a name?
PHA was set up in 1987, as part of the resistance to the developing agenda of the Conservative government, by a group of people who met at the Health Education Council.
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Target practice
Though recognising their health-promotion role, even GPs in one fairly affluent area are unsure of how to work across agencies to meet targets, reveals a survey by Thoreya Swage and Judi Linney
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POPULATION PROJECTIONS
Predicting demographic change is a tricky business. The one thing certain, says John Appleby, is that people will live longer and this will have a considerable impact on healthcare costs
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on the record
JUNE McKERROW has been director of the Mental Health Foundation since 1992. She previously worked for 25 years in housing and homelessness, most recently at Stonham establishing community-based alternatives to institutional living for people with special needs.