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Warning on 'hidden needs' of carers
The government has been warned that its national strategy for carers could 'reveal hidden care needs' in community services.
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Falklands hospital seeks NHS staff to replace military team
A Falkland Islands hospital is looking for an NHS partner because of defence cuts.
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Managers beg Blair to act on intensive care
Managers have appealed to prime minister Tony Blair for action to halt a 'crisis' in intensive care in London.
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Confederation's subs go up to prevent 'ruin'
The NHS Confederation is planning a big hike in membership rates at the end of a year in which its chief executive admits it faced 'potential financial ruin'.
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Astronomical problems as services face hordes
Acute services in Devon and Cornwall are drawing up drastic contingency measures to cope with a mass influx of visitors for the solar eclipse in six months' time.
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CJD doubles cost of blood
The cost of blood will double as a result of the 'mad cow disease' crisis, the NHS Executive has confirmed.
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Splitting the difference
This year's pay settlement was supposed to make everyone happy. Instead it has been seen as divisive, with some staff groups left far behind. Pat Healy reports
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After Henry
The NHS Bill is a skeletal piece of legislation which conjures up the ghost of Henry Vlll in the powers it gives ministers. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Northern exposure
Civil servant or health service manager? Northern and Yorkshire's new regional director, Peter Garland, talks to Seamus Ward about his role in an increasingly centralised NHS
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar
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Lighting up time
How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports
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Does the gentleman in Whitehall really know best?
The NHS regional offices are increasingly arms of central government
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The people who time forgot
Being invited to write for a magazine as well-read by well-informed people as HSJ isn't just an honour, it's downright scary. What can I say to engage your attention when virtually every aspect of the health service has been hogging the headlines in yet another crisis of nursing, funding and ...
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Lords above - it's time to enhance the NHS brand
While the Commons last week debated the bill to purge the hereditary peers, and Labour MP Dr Howard Stoate was fighting off pleas from male colleagues for Viagra prescriptions (name them, demanded Teresa Gorman), the Lords quietly staged their annual debate on the NHS. What a rich mix of fascinating ...
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The government is taking the right road with a centralised system for reclaiming traffic accident costs
Seamus Ward gave an interesting report on the new Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill ('One for the road', pages 22-25, 14 January).
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The Dobbo Day of reckoning for consultants
Informed sources - not including any current or unemployed government spin doctors - advise me that the medical profession is considering abolition of consultant merit awards. The move would end this gratuitous waste of NHS resources, and replace it with a revolutionary system which fits well with the education sector's ...
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No individual to blame in poll shenanigans...
The investigation into the Ladywood primary care group election (news, page 4, 21 January) was not about an individual but was concerned with the movements of a ballot box over a period of 72 hours, and as such 15 individuals were interviewed by Birmingham health authority secretary Richard Miles.
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Supra? Sounds super
How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.