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BMA backs calls to close A&Es
Doctors' leaders have thrown their weight behind the idea of 'super hospitals' serving half a million people each, claiming that local hospitals do not have the technology to save patients' lives.
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Mean machine:
Mean machine: mental health service users called for an end to the use of electro-convulsive therapy during a vigil at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and promised a 'national campaign to fight shock treatement'. The initiative is backed by a number of user groups, including Survivors Speak Out, Reclaim Bedlam ...
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GPs lead race to succeed Sandy
Three GPs are in the running to lead the British Medical Association when Sir Alexander Macara steps down as chair of its governing council today after five years in the post.
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Thunder and enlightening
Primary care groups were the focus of GPs' anger at the local medical committees conference. Mark Gould reports
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Human resources strategy sets targets to cut attacks against staff
Health service managers are to be set targets for cutting levels of staff sickness and violence against staff. And they will be expected to deliver 'measurable improvements' in occupational health.
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Health service must offer 1,000 jobs in first stage of New Deal scheme
The NHS will be expected to provide at least 1,000 jobs and training places for unemployed people as its initial contribution to the government's New Deal scheme, and will be expected to deliver more in future, managers have been told.
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Establishment man is new chair at King's Fund
The King's Fund moved this week to reaffirm its establishment credentials with the appointment of former Department of Health permanent secretary Sir Graham Hart as its new chair.
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Doctors' gain is NHS managers' pain as minister details make-up of PCG boards
Managers' leaders have voiced serious concerns about new guidance giving GPs a dominant role on primary care group boards.
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Family affair
Aneurin and Billy Bevan, nephews of post-war Labour health minister Nye Bevan, who founded the NHS, at the commemorative stones in the hills above Tredegar marking their uncle's achievements.
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In Brief: Ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship
A Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship has been approved. The EU council of ministers formally adopted a directive on Monday banning 'all forms of commercial communication or sponsorship with the aim or effect of promoting a tobacco product' by 2006.
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In Brief: Plan to cut number of Welsh trusts
Public consultation has started on plans to cut the number of Welsh trusts from 29 to 15.
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In Brief: Bond financing for replacement hospital
A £136m bond issue has been launched to finance the replacement of Law Hospital in Lanarkshire. It is the second time bond financing has been used for a hospital private finance initiative project.
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In Brief: Survey of infertility service
A survey of clinicians working with infertile couples has found that eight out of 10 would welcome national guidance on infertility policy and six out of 10 believe the government should provide a fully funded service. The survey is part of a report which concludes that 'treatment by postcode' is ...
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In Brief: Mencap report on NHS
The NHS is failing people with learning disabilities, according to a Mencap report. It says they are missing out on health checks and specialist services, and women are 'being left out of ' cancer screening programmes. Hospital staff have 'scant understanding' of learning disabilities, it claims.
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In Brief: Commission for Health Improvement
The introduction of the Commission for Health Improvement will require 'a new collaboration' between doctors and government in a shift to 'a more transparent process of accountability', Andrew Foster, controller of the Audit Commission, said in a speech marking the 50th anniversary of the NHS.
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Bristol deaths prompt call to re-test doctors
The public inquiry into the heart baby deaths set up in the wake of action against three Bristol doctors should consider forcing consultants to requalify every five years, a leading health policy analyst said this week.
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Controversial ACHCEW chief takes Labour whip in Lords
Community health councils chief Toby Harris has been made a working peer, taking the Labour whip in the Lords.
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Banner headlines
Donna Harcourt, a pupil at Bishopsgate School, Stockton-on-Tees, puts the finishing touches to one of 50 banners on the theme 'health for life' which will hang in the corridors of North Tees General Hospital.
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Scotland ahead in fight to beat IT bug
More than 80 per cent of NHS computer systems in Scotland will be free of the millennium bug by the end of March 1999, with work to 'firm up' compliance among stragglers being carried out during the rest of the year, MPs have been told.