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Private ambulance services' fury over paramedic register
Private ambulance operators have threatened legal action against plans for a national register of paramedics - claiming that it is an attempt to squeeze them out of the 30m 'public and sporting events' market.
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'Bristol babies' chief to appeal
Former trust chief executive John Roylance is to appeal to the Privy Council after being struck off by the General Medical Council for his part in the Bristol heart babies case.
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Shutting of community hospitals set to be referred on to Dobson
Plans to close two community hospitals in Oxfordshire will almost certainly end up on health secretary Frank Dobson's desk.
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White men skew boards
NHS boards in Greater London are top heavy with white, middle-aged men, says a survey by the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils.
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Price of new doctors may be change in role
Doctors may be forced to cede professional ground to nurses and other groups of staff as part of the price of a 20 per cent expansion in medical student numbers, the government has hinted.
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GPs in minority on new Welsh local health group boards
GPs will be in a minority on local health group boards, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has told the British Medical Association.
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On the record
Roger Kline is national secretary (health) for the MSF trade union, which has 65,000 members in the NHS. He is also head of labour relations for the union's community practitioners and health visitors' association.
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A breach too far?
Plans to merge two trusts may have to be recalled from the health secretary's office this week and rethought - because the Department of Health appears to be unable to decide on the legal rules covering trust finances.
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New lease of life for PFI
Health ministers want to develop a 'hybrid' form of the private finance initiative which does away with the complications of service contracts. Matthew Limb reports from the Commons health committee
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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Doctors are fatter cats
Top doctors are earning more than chief executives in more than one-third of trusts, according to a survey of annual accounts.
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900 a session for surgeons in last-ditch bid to clear lists
Trusts are paying surgeons up to 900 for a half-day's work in a bid to clear waiting lists, it emerged this week.
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Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region.
Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region. Alan Bullen, who is leader of West Lancashire district council, becomes chair of South Lancashire HA. Vourneen Darbyshire, a solicitor, becomes chair of North West Lancashire HA. She is a former non-executive director of Blackpool, Wyre and ...
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Who's who and who's new in healthcare
Claiming a lineage traceable to Sir Henry Burdett's 1889 Hospitals and Charities, the venerable IHSM Year Book has slimmed down for its new edition. Admirably, it has done so without much apparent loss of content, and indeed has included some new material.
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Scottish boards' trust shake-ups challenge white paper pattern
Health boards serving Scotland's two biggest cities are to press ahead with trust reconfiguration plans which run counter to the model set out in the government's Designed to Care white paper.
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The Lothian plans
One acute hospital trust covering the Royal Infirmary, Western General Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.