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Reality cheque
So pounds21bn sounds like a lot of money, but how much of it is really headed your way?
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How other departments fare
On top of the boost for health service funding, the NHS will be hoping public health benefits will stem indirectly from other initiatives announced in the comprehensive spending review.
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Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland: modernising on a more modest scale
Secretary of state for Scotland Donald Dewar announced an investment programme of pounds1.8bn over three years to create the 'most modern health service in Europe' while tackling waiting lists and rising demand.
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Doctors' orders
Family doctors have regrouped into new professional organisations to meet the challenge of primary care groups. Lyn Whitfield examines their differences
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Staffordshire terrier
The controversial figure of Roger Thayne has been snapping at heels - and not for the first time.
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Gordon Brown's billions fall into perspective
Realism returns after initial excitement over the chancellor's pounds21bn
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An internal war smoulders on for the soul of commissioning
Despite the end of fundholding, old enmities continue
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Why this punishing schedule?
The past eight months have been revolutionary, and the scale of change has taken most of us by surprise. A few months ago it was all quiet on the policy front.
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WEB WATCH
How long before all those nhs-scot.uk website addresses lose their final two letters? As the development of Scottish Health on the Web goes on, so the gap between the NHS north and south of the border becomes ever more apparent. And that's before anyone starts to think about the Scottish ...
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Bliss was it in that dawn as Santa Brown dealt the dosh
So difficult to get the tone right on these occasions, isn't it?' the Queen once remarked as her then prime minister explained away a sterling crisis to sceptical voters on TV. Watching MPs struggling with their response to Frank Dobson after he had done his Big Spender's lap of honour ...
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Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show.
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Lighthouse will stay at home in pounds2m rescue package deal
The London Lighthouse HIV and AIDS charity appears to have won its battle to stay in its purpose built premises - but its residential services are still set to close.
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Sceptical MPs damp down cash boost euphoria
The government's triumphant multi-billion pound boost for the NHS was left tarnished this week by MPs' allegations that it put a 'misleading' gloss on the real pounds8.8bn increase over three years by double and triple counting.
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Small screen
Small screen, big picture: health secretary Frank Dobson caught on video at the conference of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales last week. He told CHCs that he wanted to keep their role 'in view'.
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Spending review bonanza set to 'transform' scope of PFI projects
Millions of pounds of public capital poured into the NHS as a result of last week's comprehensive spending review announcement will 'transform' the scope of private finance initiative projects, MPs have been told.
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Heritage hospitals
This is the latest thematic survey by the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England, which compiles and makes available for us its superb record of England's built heritage. The book is substantial, very well-illustrated (in monochrome only) and fascinating. It is meticulously referenced, with a gazetteer of the ...
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Refreshing realism on research strategy
The first edition of this useful book, which appeared in early 1996, was full of optimism about the potential of the NHS research and development strategy introduced in 1991. It was, however, as the editors themselves admit, rather naive about the politics of health service research and the obstacles encountered ...
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Who's who and who's new in healthcare
Claiming a lineage traceable to Sir Henry Burdett's 1889 Hospitals and Charities, the venerable IHSM Year Book has slimmed down for its new edition. Admirably, it has done so without much apparent loss of content, and indeed has included some new material.