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MPs attack 'bonanza' spending plan reports
The government's presentation of its public spending plans has come under fierce attack from the Treasury select committee.
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Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings.
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Assembly powers key in Wales quality agenda
The Welsh Assembly will be able to ask the Commission for Health Improvement to investigate 'persistent failures to act' on problems at Welsh health organisations.
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Pay working group collapses as BMA and RCN withdraw
Plans to set up a pay system for the NHS to replace the current mish-mash of review bodies, Whitley councils and local structures have run into trouble with the collapse of a key working group.
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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Request for police guidance over use of CS spray
Acute mental health trusts should work with the police to develop guidelines on the use of CS spray on people with mental health problems, researchers from London's Maudsley Hospital have advised.
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Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
The NHS's information technology strategy will not be published until autumn, but is likely to rely heavily on the Read clinical codes despite another damaging report on the programme this week.
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MPs attack 'bonanza' spending plan reports
The government's presentation of its public spending plans has come under fierce attack from the Treasury select committee.
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999 times hit by 'lifestyle change'
The London Ambulance Service has blamed changing lifestyles for worsening 999 response times.
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Reading between the lines on the delayed IT strategy Is it all on hold while the final chapter of the Read codes fiasco unfolds?
What has happened to the NHS's promised new information management and technology strategy? There's still no sign of it - despite the fast- approaching end of IT supremo Frank Burns' secondment in September. The service had been led to believe the strategy's launch was waiting on the results of the ...
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Vote registers the right result Protecting the public - and following best practice - is the priority
A register of paramedics is long overdue, and last week's vote at the Ambulance Service Association's conference in favour of one is welcome. Objections that this would discriminate against paramedics not working in the NHS need to be addressed, but that alone is insufficient reason not to set up a ...
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WEB WATCH
Somewhere out there in cyberspace, someone shares your interest in the early history of health economics, the research possibilities inherent in The New NHS, or whatever it is that turns you on. Indeed, the ether is probably buzzing already with fellow enthusiasts sharing ideas. But how to find them?
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High-level support can open a window before the door closes
I can empathise with the feelings of hurt and disorientation which Christine Adams describes. Having had to break similar news to my family on five occasions during the past 20 years, I was surprised that I developed no immunity in that time.
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NHS expertise can be transferred to the voluntary sector
As a former personnel director who was made redundant after 36 years in the NHS, I confirm, regrettably, that the picture presented by Christine Adams is extremely accurate and one which is experienced by a large number of employees who, increasingly, are forced to leave the NHS earlier than they ...
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North Thames CHCs suffered snubs and discourtesy at the hands of the NHS Confederation
In 1997 the NHS Confederation published a consultation paper called Towards the 21st Century: a way forward for the NHS. It was considered in some detail by the 28 community health councils in North Thames. The representatives supported the general thrust of the document and most of its proposals. They ...