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NHS chief executive Alan Langlands headed a long list of health service staff in the Queen's birthday honours. There were CBEs for North Thames regional director Ron Kerr and Northern and Yorkshire regional chair Zahida Manzoor, and OBEs for Newcastle City Health trust chief executive Lionel Joyce and Bromley health ...
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CHCs join revolt over director appointment
Community health councils are in rebellion over the appointment of a new director for their national association in moves that could disrupt the patient watchdog movement's conference.
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Site unseen:
Site unseen: construction workers on the site of the pounds63m Cumberland Infirmary redevelopment in Carlisle, one of the first wave of private finance initiative building programmes to secure approval.
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Inquiry begins as hopes for peace marred by suicide fear
A Belfast community trust has launched an inquiry into an increase in suicides among young people in the city, which some fear may have been prompted by moves towards ending the troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Staffing crisis looms at screening centres
Breast cancer screening services could be facing a staffing crisis as pressure grows to bring more women into the scheme.
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RCR survey findings
More than 40 per cent of respondents said morale was low or very low, with legal pressures among the factors blamed.
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PCG commissioning plan threatens emergency ambulance services
Allowing primary care groups to commission emergency ambulance services would drive up costs, increase bureaucracy, hamper performance and fragment the service, ambulance managers have warned.
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'Tories failed to tackle POA bully-boy tactics'
Conservative health ministers showed 'political weakness' in failing to tackle the Prison Officers Association head-on over its role in the special hospitals, claim two former top managers.
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MPs call for tobacco tax to fund cessation campaign
Senior backbench Labour MPs are calling for a windfall tax on tobacco companies to fund an anti-smoking campaign. They say the government should include the measure in its forthcoming white paper on smoking.
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Dirty washing
A Welsh trust's decision to privatise sterile services has led to the first strike in the NHS since Labour came to power.
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Never too late to learn
The Bristol baby deaths case has set the current agenda for debate on quality monitoring.
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Invisible link
Will the government's new strategy for carers mollify those who accuse the NHS of not doing enough to support them?
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Standing out from the bunch
Shadow health minister Alan Duncan may believe in the mass 'liquidation' of government, but claims the NHS should be spared. So what does he want to do with it, asks Patrick Butler
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Bug bust-up
Few trusts are prepared for dealing with the year 2000 bug. And most want more resources and more guidance from the centre. Peter Mitchell reports
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In similar vein
Proposals to reorganise the Scottish blood service bear more than a passing resemblance to recent changes south of the border - and seem set to cause as much controversy, writes Barbara Millar
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The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service proposals
The SNBTS proposals, which are out for consultation until 26 August, involve a two-phase restructuring of services.
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Dobson's making beds - but should he 'lie' on them?
It is rare - perhaps unprecedented in recent years - to witness a government announcement about opening NHS beds, certainly in such numbers as health secretary Frank Dobson boasted last week. The government's pounds500m fund to tackle waiting lists would pay for an extra 2,000 beds in England, he claimed, ...
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Managers get their OATs
At the risk of appearing vulgar, we feel we have to point out that getting their OATs looks like becoming a preoccupation for NHS managers. The government's plans for replacing extra-contractual referrals with retrospective payments for 'out of area treatments' may resurrect some of the problems associated with funding cross-boundary ...