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Chips with everything
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bug imbroglio, IT managers are now being asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell
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Continuity announcements
Scottish trust chairs have their work cut out carrying forward health improvement programmes amid major reorganisation. Laura Donnelly reports
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Who says the NHS Confederation never upsets anyone? The row after its pay evidence featured on Radio Four's To d a y programme as 'previously unpublished' proof of a nursing crisis had to be heard to be believed. It seems Confed boss Stephen Thornton anticipated an uproar and tried to ...
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8 October 1948
Reasons why the ambulance and fire services should not be merged have been published by the Institute of Certified Ambulance Personnel.
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Monitor
Does Monitor detect a split in the Tory front bench health team? Why, only last week, Alan Duncan turned down a much-coveted opportunity to contribute to HSJ's On the Record column on the grounds that such things were 'too trivial'. And then, before you know it, up pops Ann Widdecombe ...
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Brenda Howard
Brenda Howard has been seconded to the policy development group of the Trent regional office of the NHS Executive. Ms Howard, director of operations (surgical services) and planning at Barnsley District General Hospital trust, will further the government's
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An extra 1bn will to be added to NHS information technology budgets over the next seven years to fund the IM&T strategy published last week.
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Mental health groups
Mental health groups have moved to distance themselves from junior health minister Paul Boateng's announcement that a review of the Mental Health Act will mean forced medical treatment in the community.
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Government efforts to improve care in the community will fail unless shortages of supported and secure accommodation are remedied, according a report.
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Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...