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Short cuts: PFI-funded hospital to go ahead on greenfield site
Swindon and Marlborough trust has been given planning permission for a replacement for Princess Margaret Hospital after deputy prime minister John Prescott decided not to call the plans in for a public inquiry. The private finance initiative-funded hospital will be built on a greenfield site on the edge of Swindon, ...
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Short cuts: Trusts told to set up 'robust' breast cancer systems
Trust chief executives have been told to put 'robust systems in place' to track urgent referrals from GPs involving suspected breast cancer. Trusts will also be expected to monitor referrals from February to 'test the new reporting instructions' and provide updates for health authorities on progress towards meeting the government's ...
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Short cuts: Alliance against assault follows smacking research
An alliance has been launched under the name Children are Unbeatable! to lobby for children to be given the same legal protection against assault as adults. Around 200 organisations, including a number of medical royal colleges, are involved. The Department of Health last week received research from Save the Children ...
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Short cuts: First Scots integrated health and social care facility
The Scottish Office has given the go-ahead for an £11m integrated health and social care facility - the first of its kind in Scotland.
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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Ready sorted
news focus; Health authority and trust chief executives in the capital have already experienced the forthright management style of Nigel Crisp, the man running the new London region.
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Long-stay care ruling puts duty on NHS
Health authorities suffered bruising defeats in the High Court just before Christmas in two challenges by patients to decisions on the use of healthcare resources.
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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Short cuts: New test for surgeons' hand-eye co-ordination
A computer test aimed at assessing whether a surgeon has sufficient hand- to-eye co-ordination to profit from training in keyhole techniques has been developed by the psychology department of Hull University, with funding from East Yorkshire Hospitals trust. The test measures the speed and accuracy with which a subject can ...
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Glasgow kiss
A partnership board set up to approach service changes in a co-operative spirit has had impressive results. Barbara Millar reports
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Ring in the new as Denham starts with a clean slate Milburn's successor arrives without the baggage of manager-bashing
With one bound he was free. By Christmas eve, Alan Milburn had been relieved of the trials and tribulations of the new NHS reforms for a seat at the Cabinet table as overlord of all public spending - thanks at least in part to the proof copy of a forthcoming ...
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Pay, not PR, is the solution Ministers must get to the heart of nurse shortages - and winter crises
Another new year, another clutch of 'NHS in crisis' headlines bespatters the national newspapers. The pattern is a classic, if not quite perennial, one: widespread outbreaks of flu lead to more patients presenting in accident and emergency departments, while on the wards the same outbreaks lead to elderly people blocking ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
So you finally managed to get your home computer linked up to the Internet over Christmas.
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Medical staffing Managers should take an interest
As a pre-registration house officer, I can fully understand why some doctors consider leaving the NHS ('Quick march', page
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General practice: on the way out?
Medical students or young doctors dropping out has become a serious issue. According to them: 'Doctors want to practise medicine but they also want a life.'
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Going for Gold in the Welsh valleys with multidisciplinary primary care
Jo Carlowe's article on medical staffing ('Asian few' page 30-31, 3 December) highlights a major problem facing many of the most deprived parts of Wales. The staffing indicators on the age-profile of GPs make particularly gloomy reading.