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Major hospital blaze prompts chief to protest against insurance orders
The chief executive of a hospital involved in a major fire has written to health secretary Frank Dobson protesting about orders that stop trusts taking out commercial insurance.
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Doubled pension payments may threaten reforms, say managers
Shocked managers' leaders have warned that the government's NHS modernisation plans could be at risk after learning employers will have to almost double their contributions to staff pensions over the next two years.
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Troubled e-mail fails to stop GP intranet link-up
Health authorities have been told to press ahead with connecting all computerised GP practices to NHSnet by the end of the year, despite a recent flood of complaints about its electronic mail service.
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Unions attack Labour on PFI
The Labour Party is facing a tough challenge to its use of the private finance iniative this week, at the Scottish Trade Union Congress in Glasgow.
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Belfast trust makes youth service bid in attempt to reduce suicides
A Belfast trust is bidding for up to £750,000 to build a 'one-stop' integrated youth service in an attempt to reduce suicides and teenage pregnancies.
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Patients 'at risk' from locum use
Poor management of locum doctors is putting patients at risk and wasting millions of pounds, says the Audit Commission.
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Survey reveals lack of access to dentists
Increasing concerns about access to NHS dentists and a shortage of general dental practitioners have been highlighted in a survey of health authorities.
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Critics of forced treatment tone down criticisms following report
Responses to an initial report by the government's Mental Health Act review team suggest that opposition to compulsory treatment in the community may be crumbling.
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The way ahead: NSF survey results
NSF has launched a campaign for 'decent care and treatment', better monitoring of mental health services and more independent advocacy in the wake of its survey. It found:
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Queries over £1bn 'red tape' savings
An Office of Health Economics report has cast doubt on government claims that the current round of NHS reforms will lead to 'red tape' savings of £1bn.
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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.