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Change in account rules could spell the end for PFI
Strict new accountancy rules will mean the end of the private finance initiative in the health service, it has been predicted.
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UCLH in court victory over Unison strike
One of London's largest trusts has won a last-ditch court battle to avert strike action planned for next week.
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Fraudbusters making 'substantial' progress
Health authorities are making 'substantial progress' in beating contractor fraud, according to a survey by the Health- care Financial Management Association.
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Dobson gives green light to pooled budgets but merger ruled out entirely
Health and social services authorities will be able to pool budgets under proposals set out this week in the government's promised consultation document on joint working.
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Mixed-sex wards advice is attacked
Campaigners calling for an end to mixed-sex wards in psychiatric units have attacked advice on new builds issued by the NHS Executive.
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Euro health policy will target poor
A new European-wide health policy, setting targets for reducing health inequalities between east and west and rich and poor, was due to be ratified by health ministers in Copenhagen this week.
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Labour warned by academics on drift towards centralisation
Labour looks set to repeat a key Conservative error by imposing heavy-handed central control on the NHS, according to the most comprehensive review yet of the last set of reforms.
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Milburn accused over 'easy' fat cat rhetoric
Health minister Alan Milburn has been accused of using 'the easy rhetoric' of 'fat cat managers' by the First Division Association.
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Ambulance trust merger hit by 'mistrust'
'Tension and mistrust' is creeping into merger plans involving three trusts in the east Midlands, according to the chief executives involved.
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In brief
Prime minister Tony Blair has been urged to support global rules controlling tobacco marketing in the forthcoming white paper on smoking. The call comes from the World Development Movement campaign, which is trying to stop tobacco companies 'aggressively marketing' products in the third world to replace sales lost in developed ...
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Job scheme under attack from union
Greenwich Healthcare trust has been reported to the National Audit Office for allegedly misusing public money to develop a
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Demand for boards and trusts to share list cuts
Health board general managers and trust chief executives will be expected to 'sign up' to their share of the Scottish waiting list cuts target.
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Calman questions screening needs
Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman used his final annual report to question the value of some of the 100 screening programmes in place across the NHS.
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Scottish GPs demand more say in reforms
GPs have called for a bigger say in the government's reform of the Scottish health service.
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Northern Ireland at risk from fraud
Northern Ireland could be losing millions of pounds a year through fraud in primary care, a report from the Northern Ireland Audit Office has concluded.