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HA chair resigns in protest over 'bypass' plans for Budget money
A health authority chair has resigned in protest at the government's claim that Budget money would bypass HAs.
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Chief executive to step down with £4.2m deficit uncleared
West Sussex health authority's controversial chief executive Peter Catchpole is to leave for a new career, having failed to clear the HA's historic deficit.
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Views sought on merger plan
South Staffordshire health authority is to launch a formal consultation on proposals to merge mental health and community trusts.
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A helping handbook
Elias Fantousi swots up on valuable skills in the junior paramedics' firstaid handbook, which East Anglian Ambulance Service helped to produce. The seven-year-old was one of more than 20,000 children given the book, which teaches youngsters basic first aid as well as how their bodies work.
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Welsh review group examines allocation
The Welsh Assembly has brought forward a review of the funding allocation system for the NHS in Wales, and appointed an independent review group chair.
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Life for patient who took hostage
A patient who effectively shut down a hospital in Wales for two days by holding a doctor at gunpoint has been given a life sentence.
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Leading analyst dubs Labour health policies 'boring'
The government's healthcare policies have so far proved 'terribly boring' compared with the sort of initiative that might be expected in a second term, a leading policy analyst claimed this week. Speaking at the launch of King's College London's institute for applied health and social policy, Dr Perri 6, former ...
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Modernisation team will address sex inequalities
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the prevention and inequalities modernisation action team will look at ways of reducing 'the health inequalities which exist between men and women'. At a men's health conference in Birmingham, she also said the new Health Development Agency would look at what measures ...
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Hutton promises boost in equipment standards
Health minister John Hutton has responded to last week's Audit Commission report on equipment services by promising that standards will be 'driven up' and highlighting investment already promised for hearing aid and wheelchair services. NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton said managers wanted to end the 'postcode lottery of care'. ...
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New coalition aiming to build on strategy for London
A Coalition for Health and Regeneration in London has been launched 'to ensure that improving the health of Londoners is on everyone's agenda across the capital'. It brings together a wide range of organisations, including the King's Fund, London regional office and the Government Office for London to create an ...
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Birmingham set to host defence medicine centre
Defence minister John Spellar and junior health minister Gisela Stuart have signed an agreement to create a centre for defence medicine at University Hospital Birmingham trust, which should open in April next year. The centre replaces the last remaining forces hospital in the UK, at Gosport in Hampshire, and will ...
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MPs grill Langlands on 'good practice' roll-out
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has been grilled on why the NHS apparently struggles to make progress in areas the government wants to see tackled in its drive for modernisation.
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Snap happy
A portrait titled Olivia by photographer Dieter Cole forming part of an exhibition showing psychiatric service users in the community. Living Our Lives at Brixton Art Gallery in south London is complemented by pictures taken by the subjects. Mr Cole, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 24, ...
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Crisis talks as CHI moves in on Lakeland for abuse probe
A government hit-squad has held a crisis meeting with managers at a trust stung by revelations of horrifying abuse of elderly mentally ill patients.
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Blair invited to surgery
Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Alan Milburn have been invited to spend a day in a GP's surgery by Dr Michael Dixon, a Devon doctor and chair of the NHS Alliance.
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Days like this
Paying the price of speaking one's mind. . . Controlling the internal market. . . Cervical cytology tests . . . A new round of HA mergers
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Scotland promised public health boost
The Scottish health service will receive £173m next year from the £300m found for public services in Scotland in the Budget.
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Executive decisions
Scottish senior managers are to have their salaries fixed by the Scottish Executive in a bid to 'introduce fairness and equity with other NHS staff members', according to a spokesperson for health minister Susan Deacon.
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Question mark over NI allocation
Northern Ireland will receive £53m as its share of the £2bn extra cash for the NHS - but how it will be allocated remains unknown.
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Budget's £600m bonanza soured by claim of anti-bureauccrat spin
The government's decision to distribute £600m of Budget cash to the NHS with no strings attached has been warmly welcomed - but overshadowed by claims that the announcement was 'spun' into an 'anti-bureaucrat crusade'.