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Short Cuts: Livingstone bides time on naming health adviser
London mayor Ken Livingstone has yet to appoint an adviser on health, despite persistent rumours that the post will go to Geoff Martin, campaigns director of London Health Emergency. He recently told HSJ : 'I haven't spoken to Ken directly about this. He said some months ago I would be ...
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Legal action and picket threat to HA over plans to dismantle PCG
Doctors have threatened to take Manchester health authority to court over plans to break up a primary care group, while health visitors have warned they will picket the HA's headquarters in protest.
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Great dames
Marie Stopes and Joan Collins, aka clinical nurse specialist Jan Saunders and senior manager Brenda Maddy, ride on a float organised by Beatrice maternity ward for Salisbury Hospital Carnival.
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Deacon gets tough on violent patients
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is planning to introduce regulations to stop violent patients attending their local GP surgery and force them to visit secure units for treatment.
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Executive risks creating 'cowboy town' warning
A senior union leader has claimed that the Scottish Executive is in danger of 'creating a cowboy town with the Scottish health service: all front and no back'.
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De Brun says fight for cash is her top priority
Bairbre de Brun, taking up her post as Northern Ireland's health minister for the second time, has said that getting more money for the health service is her top priority.
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Days like this
Hospital building delays. . . impact of health cuts on social services. . . helicopter grounded. . . income generation schemes 'exaggerated'
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24-hour access pledge
The government's newly appointed mental health 'czar' has pledged to introduce 24- hour access to mental health services by April next year and phase out mixed-sex accommodation with-in two years.
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Let's be friends
MODERNISING THE NHS In our second article on the government's modernisation teams for the NHS, we look at the issue of partnership. The brief: 'To make all parts of the health and social care system work better together and to ensure the right emphasis at
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Is the public ready for its personal hotline to Alan Milburn?
Lyn Whitfield did the rounds in Winchester
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A spanner in the works
A decade ago, the radical 'reengineering' of Leicester Royal Infirmary was steeped in controversy. But did the revolution ever happen? Peter Pallot reports
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Something in the air
It's a tricky role, but the head of the new Health Development Agency is confident that success is within his grasp. Laura Donnelly met him
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A personnel best?
A computer system linking all the personnel information of NHS staff is on its way. But will this IT initiative deliver the goods where so many others have failed? Kaye McIntosh reports
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A sense of detachment
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country is revealing disturbing gaps in continuity of care. Tash Shifrin reports