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    Welfare and the state it's in

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    The welfare state in Britain since 1945 (2nd edition) By Rodney Lowe Macmillan 357 pages £45 hardback/£14.99 paperback

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    Underwriting the moral issues

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    Healthcare, ethics and insurance Edited by Tom Sorell Routledge 234 pages £15.99

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    in person

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    Cynthia Rickitt has become chair of Priority Healthcare Wearside trust. Ms Rickitt qualified as a midwife and eventually became director of midwifery at City Hospitals trust. Most recently, she was a non-executive director of Sunderland health authority.

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    Events

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    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    In brief: New Opportunities Fund

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    The New Opportunities Fund, which will award National Lottery grants to health, education and environment projects, has been officially launched by its chair, Baroness Pitkeathley. The £300m grant programme for healthy living centres was opened to applications to tie in with the launch of the fund.

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    In brief: Frank Dobson

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    Health secretary Frank Dobson has appointed Sir Brian Jarman as the medical member of the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry team. Sir Brian is emeritus professor at Imperial College school of medicine and a member of the government's Standing Medical Advisory Committee.

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    In brief: British Medical Association in Scotland

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    The British Medical Association in Scotland has called for reform of the medical compensation system and a 'serious debate' on no-fault claims. The BMA has called for the Scottish parliament to examine compensation processes which would 'leave the question of fault down to the profession's disciplinary bodies'.

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    In brief: Frank Dobson

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    Health secretary Frank Dobson has ordered 13 inner-city health authorities to draw up action plans for 'a fully effective' cervical cancer screening service. The government has set a target of 80 per cent coverage by March 2002.

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    In brief: Tessa Jowell

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    Public health minister Tessa Jowell has invited schools to enter the Safe and Sound Challenge, an initiative to encourage children to walk or cycle to school. Ms Jowell said the initiative was a 'key priority' in the government's public health strategy.

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    In brief: Manor House Hospital

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    A north London hospital with close links to the trade union movement is to close. Manor House Hospital in Golders Green will close in April. Manor House Friendly Society, which runs it, has sold the site to a developer.

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    Three-year audit plan

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    The Audit Commission has published a strategy for the next three years, following a comprehensive review of its work and consultation with more than 250 organisations.

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    PCGs and fundholding will run in tandem following £19m legislative timing hitch

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    The government is to spend £19m closing down the GP fundholding scheme - but will have to set up another.

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    Drug prices targeted in Health Bill reforms

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    Sweeping powers to curb the cost of drugs to the NHS and 'modernise' professional self-regulation have been laid out in the government's Health Bill.

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    What's in the Health Bill

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    Primary care

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    Denham agrees consultation on trust mergers

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    Health minister John Denham has given the go-ahead for public consultation on proposals to merge five trusts. Consultation on plans to merge East Yorkshire Hospitals trust and Royal Hull Hospitals trust starts tomorrow. Public consultation on proposals to create a single acute trust for Leicestershire from Glenfield Hospital trust, Leicester ...

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    HA aims to collect data on patients struck off by GPs

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    Wigan and Bolton health authority is currently 'in the embryonic stages' of establishing a database to look for trends in cases where patients are struck off GP lists. It is also extending an existing conciliation service to patients who are removed without being given a reason. The moves follow a ...

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    Links between academics and doctors 'essential'

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    Strong links between academics and grassroots GPs are 'essential for the future' of general practice, a King's Fund study has concluded. The study found that medical education had 'changed little over the past 100 years', and a new partnership was needed to combat 'falling public confidence' and 'growing responsibilities' for ...

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    Hancock calls for clarity on long-term nursing care

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock has urged health secretary Frank Dobson to clarify the government's position on funding long-term nursing care.

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    Consultants query intensive care bed figures

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association has claimed that official figures on the availability of intensive care beds may 'grossly under-represent' pressure on bed space. It cites a case in which patients being ventilated in cardiac beds were not included in NHS Executive figures. Former HCSA president Robin Loveday, a ...

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    Medical Defence Union issues advice on IT bug

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The Medical Defence Union has written to members to reinforce advice on dealing with the millennium computer bug. It says doctors should 'assume that anything electronic they use in their practice could become date sensitive on 1 January' and other flashpoints, including 9 September this year and 29 February next ...