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Blair offers £280m for walk-in centres
Prime minister Tony Blair has unveiled a £280m package to improve patient access to the NHS.
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New framework is judged 'better than tables'
Managers' leaders this week welcomed the government's promised new NHS performance assessment framework as a 'more useful indication of the quality of patient care than crude league tables'.
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Treasury accused of stalling PFI
The Department of Health has given outline approval for 10 third- wave private finance initiative hospital building schemes amid concerns that an overall review of PFI is being stalled by Treasury interference.
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Breast screening halted in Cumbria
Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.
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Scots MPs say no
Labour has launched its Scottish election campaign with a pledge to build eight new hospitals, including the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, using what Scottish secretary Donald Dewar called a 'public-private partnership' rather than PFI.
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Report shows gaps in services for people with special needs
Despite overall improvement in local authority services for people with special needs, some councils are falling behind in assessing children, an Audit Commission report says.
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Retraining for suspended Scots surgeon
A suspended Scottish surgeon is to undergo supervised surgical retraining before being allowed back to work after an external inquiry found concerns about his clinical practice were justified.
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Needlepoint:
Needlepoint: consultant radiologist Dr Mark Callaway (left) with patient Andrew Wood, demonstrating a new technique for detecting 'hidden' cancers, developed with his United Bristol Healthcare trust colleague Dr Julian Kabala. It uses an open magnetic resonance imaging scanner and a specially designed non-magnetic cutting needle to diagnose difficult to detect ...
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MP calls for Dobson probe into 'conflict of interest' as ex-NHS manager gets job with IT contractor
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been asked to investigate allegations of a conflict of interest surrounding the appointment of an NHS information technology manager to an IT company which has a lucrative contract with his trust.
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Vacancies at the top force merger delays
Trusts have been forced to postpone mergers for six months or more because they have failed to appoint chairs to the board in time, HSJ inquiries have revealed. And many of the trusts that went live in April still lack chief executives.
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Nice work: jobs on-line
HSJ's web site takes a significant step forward today with the launch of HSJ Jobs Plus, offering its 24,000 registered users the chance to access full-text advertisements for jobs, tenders and courses and conferences online. The fully searchable database, covering every job advertised in HSJ, will also include a 'job ...
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Failed software fiasco costs hospital £64,000
A Trent hospital has written off nearly £64,000 because a specialist computer package was not up to the job.
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A bigger splash
Simon Carpenter from Avon health promotion services holds one of the residents of the newly enlarged pond in the nature reserve at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.
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Jobs at risk as trusts 'face £100m crisis'
Patient services and jobs are at risk as London trusts face a £75m cash crisis, figures obtained by HSJ show.