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Financial forecasts 'not up to scratch in a third of trusts'
At least a third of trusts need to improve their financial forecasting, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants warned this week.
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HAs to set their own green paper targets
Health authorities will be encouraged to set their own targets to tackle local health problems, public health minister Tessa Jowell told the Journal this week.
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IN BRIEF
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he was 'extremely concerned about the increasing tide of litigation besetting the health service' and that it was affecting the way doctors practised. He told the Commons select committee on public administration that he was looking for ways to 'prevent the health service ...
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'Terror team' mastermind was former board manager
A former Scottish health board manager who masterminded a gang which carried out random attacks on strangers was jailed this week for four-and-a-half years.
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Flawed figures claim in Lothian service review
An ambitious plan to reorganise acute services in Lothian faced fresh opposition this week amid renewed claims it is based on ‘flawed’ figures.
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Scottish trust chair 'resigns over cuts'
A Scottish trust chair has resigned, allegedly in protest at planned service cuts.
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pounds1m development cash announced to upgrade top managers' training
Health officials this week unveiled plans to groom a 'cadre' of top managers and hinted at the damage done to training by past NHS reforms.
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Transport deal angers LAS
Pressure is building on the government to speed up its review of NHS competitive tendering after a private company won a pounds1m contract to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the Royal Hospitals trust in London.
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Getting the message across
Getting the message across: campaigners fighting to save Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, and Atkinson Morley Hospital took their protest to the Department of Health last week, with a petition to health secretary Frank Dobson. Plans to transfer acute services away from Queen Mary's - part of a package of measures ...
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Ex-Ashworth chief admits to lack of experience in personality disorders
The former chief executive of a special hospital at the centre of drug, pornography and sexual abuse allegations admitted last week that she had no experience of patients with psychopathic disorders.
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Nurses slam HA advertisement
A health authority has been accused of misleading the public by placing a 'good news' advertisement in local papers.
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NHS Confederation calls for year 2000 help
Information managers told MPs last week they needed more central support to tackle the year 2000 problem and warned them the process had to be speeded up.
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Union urges parity for Scottish chiefs
Senior managers in Scotland should be brought back into the NHS bargaining framework and their terms of employment overhauled, Unison has told the government.
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Coalition will resist HA's pounds6m cuts plan
A coalition of staff groups and health organisations has been formed to oppose a health authority's plans to save pounds6m over three years.
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Tories query tobacco ad ban support
Conservative MPs tried last week to ambush the government's support for a Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising.
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IN BRIEF
Unison this week launched a campaign to encourage nurses in Scotland to stand for the Scottish and Westminster parliaments, health and trust boards and for local councils. Aiming for 200 nurses in 'positions of power' by 2000, Unison said nurses would be the biggest single group of staff working for ...
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Betaferon results herald renewed funding warning
Clinicians sounded a fresh warning this week over NHS funding constraints after claims that drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could benefit twice as many patients as first thought.
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Exchange of views
Exchange of views: Ararat Mkrtichian (centre), minister of health for the Republic of Armenia, discusses health with Barrie Fisher, chief executive of North Yorkshire health authority, and HA vice-chair Tony Culyer (reflected in the mirror). Mr Mkrtichian and Susanna Hayrapetian, head of the World Bank project co-ordination unit, visited the ...
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Welsh waiting lists rise by a third
The number of patients waiting for treatment at Welsh hospitals has risen by more than a third in a year.