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Noorece Ahmed, press officer for the Wellcome Trust, takes a close look at an exhibit in 'The New Anatomists', a show at the trust's Two 10 Gallery in London. The exhibition covers works by scientists and artists interested in the 'inner workings' of the body. Exhibitions manager Denna Jones said ...
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Intensive care doctors warn of non-payment by private insurers
Doctors running NHS intensive care units have expressed growing concern that private insurers are refusing to pick up the tab for patients transferred from the private sector.
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'Tell private hospitals' call
NHS managers have been urged to tell private hospitals when they strike off a consultant.
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Prison healthcare working group avoids shifting onus on to the NHS
Proposals for managing prison healthcare have shied away from shifting accountability to the NHS.
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Bristol inquiry hears 'enforcement vacuum' evidence
The Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry has heard evidence of a 'vacuum in relation to the enforcement of standards relating to paediatric cardiac services'.
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Roylance appeal to privy council fails
The Privy Council has dismissed Dr John Roylance's appeal against being struck off for his part in the Bristol case.
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Cash-strapped HA under fire over HIV cutbacks
A health authority facing a £1.5m funding shortfall has been attacked for threatening to cut spending on HIV and AIDS.
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Trusts disappear across UK
More than 100 trusts are affected by mergers taking place across the UK today.
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Careering ahead:
Bharpur Singh Mudhuadia (left), Mandeep Singh and Jasmeet Saahney (right), from Hounslow Manor School, west London, read a careers pamphlet on medical physics at a Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust careers day.
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Medical devices in users' homes fall through year 2000 loophole
Thousands of medical devices in patients' houses and nursing homes have slipped through a hole in the NHS Executive's year 2000 programme, it emerged last week.
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Cottage hospital wins reprieve
A cottage hospital earmarked for closure has been granted a reprieve by proposals to cut costs through pooling health and social service budgets.
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Quarter of GPs have not planned for millennium bug
An NHS Executive survey has revealed that at least 25 per cent of GPs have made no plans to make their practice systems year 2000 compliant. 'We are getting quite concerned about this, especially as the real figure is probably a lot higher,' said a spokeswoman. A health service circular, ...
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Private contractors tighten hold on hospital food
Hospital food is increasingly provided by private contractors, a survey of the catering industry shows.
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Days like this
Ministers consider 'care test' for elderly people... Cot deaths increase... Local authority experts accuse government on public health...
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Ministering with Milburn
As a PCG chief executive and soon-to-be ordained Church of England vicar, Dr Meg Gilley sees no conflict between rationing services and her religious beliefs.
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'A strange woman': Dobson on Widdecombe
'She would like to give me a hard time, but she doesn't succeed. Everybody would agree she is a strange woman. I think that John Maples (her predecessor) wasn't very aggressive, but he was actually trying to do what (William) Hague claims he's