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Doctors reject rescue plans for Worcester
Doctors have rejected Worcestershire health authority plans to re-organise hospital services in the face of an pounds18m deficit.
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Survivors
Survivors: health secretary Frank Dobson meets Minnie Hodges, aged 107, during a visit to Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham. Mrs Hodges was in hospital after a fall, and was preparing to return home at the time of Mr Dobson's visit. She told reporters afterwards that she believed John Major was Britain's ...
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Test blunders claimed eight women's lives, report reveals
The deaths of eight women have been linked to smear-test blunders by the cervical cytology screening service run by Kent and Canterbury Hospitals trust.
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Whistleblower policy hailed as NHS 'model'
A 'whistleblowing' policy which guarantees the right of trust staff to go public with their concerns has been commended as a 'model' for the rest of the NHS.
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Chain store Dixons
Chain store Dixons featured in a newspaper investigation this week after a freelance computer expert was reportedly 'shocked' to find a computer he bought as an ex-demonstration model held personal details about a psychiatrist's patients. The doctor said Dixons had assured him the computer would be wiped clean after he ...
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Fund takeover angers GPs in budget dispute GPs
Doctors at a pilot fundholding project in Scotland have reacted angrily to an unprecedented decision by the local health board to resume control of their budget.
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There is scope for Powys-like protest
There is scope for Powys-like protest in its decision since the project group reports: 'The one trust option is greatly feared in the north of the country' and there is 'cohesive opposition from the local trust, GPs and local councillors'.
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Monitor
It's all very embarrassing when you give someone the boot and are then forced to give them their job back. Which must explain why South Thames regional office has insisted on saying that Lady Helen Gardiner has had her appointment as chair of Surrey Ambulance trust 'extended'. 'It's an extension ...
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Stage struck
Doctors can hardly conceal their glee, the unions are furious, and managers have been warned that their pay rises
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Lord Justice Phillips
Lord Justice Phillips, chair of the government's BSE inquiry, opens its preliminary session in London last week. He said former ministers, civil servants and animal feed manufacturers would be questioned about the spread of 'mad cow disease', but the 'primary object of the inquiry is not to attribute blame but ...
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Pay managers the same as other staff, says Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has written to health authority and trust chairs, urging them to give senior managers the same pay award as other NHS staff.
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'Scientific' bid to make surgery safer
A regional public health director will meet trust medical directors this week in a bid to set up more scientific ways of ensuring that all doctors practise safe surgery.
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IN BRIEF
Organisers of a reunion for former NHS management trainees are appealing for help in tracking down graduates of the scheme. Around 2,000 high-flyers are thought to have passed through the programme over the past 41 years, but accurate records of who they are and where they are exist only for ...
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Ministers give go-ahead to UK's largest teaching trust
Ministers have given the go-ahead to create the UK's biggest teaching hospital trust, ending a two-year on-off merger saga.
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Green Park Healthcare trust
Green Park Healthcare trust chief executive Hilary Boyd (right) watches as staff nurse Wendy Shannon monitors a hip-replacement patient. Ms Shannon has been taking part in a trust training scheme for junior managers which involves a four-week secondment to another department. She shadowed the chief executive and in return Ms ...
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Durham mergers to release pounds1.3m
Five trusts in Durham are to be dissolved and three new ones formed from April, in a move set to save pounds1.3m.
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Equally determined over pay
'Staging the award will be a relief to those who would otherwise have to find money the NHS does not have, but it will have done little to inspire the confidence of staff who will see their salaries fall in real terms this year'