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Monitor
Monitor would like to reassure anyone hanging around Heathrow Airport recently that the finance director of the NHS does not normally wander round clutching a Zulu shield. It's just that Colin Reeves had to stand in for Dobbo at short notice on a trip to sell South Africa's health service ...
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Downgrading of public health post condemned as 'setback'
A downgrading of the public health minister post has been condemned as a 'severe setback'.
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NI fundholding to continue until 2001
GP fundholding is to be extended in Northern Ireland 'at least until April 2001' because of the political vacuum caused by the failure to set up a devolved assembly.
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Ex-finance chief ordered to pay up for 'vexation'
The former finance director of a Glasgow trust has been ordered to pay £500 expenses to the trust after an employment tribunal ruled that he had acted 'vexatiously or unreasonably' in his handling of the case.
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Call for annual reports on Saving Lives white paper
The UK Public Health Association has called for annual public health reports on the strategy in the Saving Lives white paper.
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Milburn summit delays heart strategy
Health secretary Alan Milburn has ordered a sharper focus on cutting waiting times for heart disease and cancer patients, but insists that he is not abandoning the government's commitment to hitting its general election waiting-list pledge.
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'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign
Chin wag: health minister John Denham (left) and Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine sit under posters showing weapons used in attacks on NHS staff, at the launch of the 'NHS zero tolerance zone' campaign, which aims to'underline that violence against staff working in the NHS is unacceptable'.
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Beds installed in boardroom as wards fill up
An unexplained jump in patient demand in west London has forced managers to commandeer the boardroom at Ealing Hospital as a ward for the next four weeks.
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In Brief: Shake-up of the Liberal Democrats
A shake-up of the Liberal Democrats' frontbench team has seen Nick Harvey take over as health spokesperson, with support from Dr Peter Brand. Simon Hughes and Dr Evan Harris, who used to speak on health, have taken on the briefs for home affairs, and for higher education and women, respectively.
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In Brief: NHS Supplies
NHS Supplies says it exceeded the annual purchasing savings target set by the Department of Health last year. Its annual report says savings of £113m were made, taking the total saving since NHS Supplies was established in 1991 to £560.9m. It claims to 'influence around half ' of the £5bn ...
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In Brief: The King's Fund
The King's Fund has launched a project looking at approaches to public involvement taken by London's primary care groups, with the aim of helping them to develop more effective methods. Project manager Will Anderson said that 'the NHS has traditionally found it hard to involve the public' but PCGs would ...
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In Brief: Senior manager required
Northern Ireland's health and social services central services agency is looking for a senior manager to head its new central fraud investigation unit, which will provide a specialist investigation service for the four health and social services boards.
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In Brief: The Mental Health Foundation
The Mental Health Foundation has produced a self-help manual on anxiety and depression, with exercises for dealing with low moods.
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In Brief: Unison makes legal history
Unison has claimed to have made legal history in winning a six-figure sum for a senior orthopaedic technician who became 40 per cent disabled through exposure to latex. An unnamed trust, which accepted liability for the technician's condition in June, offered the sum before a court was due to assess ...
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DoH 'overlooked' Bristol witness call
The Department of Health has apologised for failing to provide legal support to a former NHS manager called to appear at the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry.
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Lancaster University chosen for 'supermanagers' programme
Lancaster University has been chosen to run a new development programme for senior chief executives as part of the NHS Executive's plan to create a cadre of supermanagers.
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Pay deal 'is key to keeping nurses in NHS'
Nurses need a 'substantial' pay rise if the NHS is to retain the experienced staff needed to carry out the government's modernisation programme, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
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Hear here
visitor Mrs Blake has a hearing test during an open afternoon at Royal Hampshire County Hospital's audiology department. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust audiology services manager Helen Martin said the event was organised as part of deaf awareness week to' provide an opportunity to see what we do and increase ...
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Staff views on old-age services are 'negative'
Front-line staff working with older people would not like to rely on the services they provide in their own old age, King's Fund research has found.
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Board officials face calls to stand down
Tayside health board officials are facing calls for their resignation from campaigners opposed to the closure of Stracathro Hospital in Brechin.