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This week
New year, new idea: Dennis Holmes, an accident and emergency manager from the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service trust, on duty at one of two mobile medical centres set up in Leeds on new year's eve as a 'trial run' for the millennium celebrations. The centres, staffed by members of ...
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CHCs demand new law to end HAs' 'closed-door meetings'
Community health council leaders are demanding changes in the law and new guidance on openness to stop health authorities going behind closed doors to vote through service cutbacks.
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Proposal for first primary care trust
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion proposals to merge and create one of the first primary care trusts in April 1999.
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IN BRIEF
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has said she intends to make public health a key part of the UK presidency of the EU. This will include taking forward the tobacco advertising directive and public health issues relating to food law. Ms Jowell is due to chair the EU health council ...
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Charges 'will not benefit NHS'
There is little economic sense in introducing new charges into the health service, a study from the Office of Health Economics concludes.
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Unison calls on Welsh Office to ease HA debt
A union leader has called for Welsh Office support for a health authority facing a pounds13.5m deficit.
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Consultation delay allows time to talk
Widespread objections to service cuts proposed by a health authority facing a projected pounds18m deficit have forced the postponement of public consultation to allow more time for talks with health professionals and local councillors.
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Survey will seek views of 100,000 patients
Details of a major annual opinion survey which will seek to build up a national picture of patients' experience of the NHS have been revealed by health minister Alan Milburn.
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Government to target high-spending trusts in management costs drive
Trusts and health authorities with higher than average management costs will be targeted in the government's latest drive against 'NHS bureaucracy'.
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US-trained doctor's dispute is test case
A US-trained anaesthetist is fighting for consultant status in Britain in a case that could have implications for medical workforce planning.
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IN BRIEF
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced that a steering group chaired by John Arbuthnott, principal and vice-chancellor of Strathclyde University, is to conduct a 'wide-ranging' review of NHS funding in Scotland. The group will review the 20-year-old SHARE distribution formula to see 'whether the distribution of resources can more ...
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Welsh O f fice jumps gun over trust job adver ts
The Welsh Office has come under fire for advertising top posts in an all-Wales ambulance service trust before the end of public consultation on whether one should be set up.
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Former RHA sold off IT agency 'for a fract ion of its potent ial value'
An NHS information technology agency was sold by the former South and West regional health authority for a fraction of its potential value, MPs have concluded.
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Just rewards?
New year, new NHS Executive head of human resources - and a new pay agenda in the offing. Barbara Millar explores the options for replacing local pay determination in 1998
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BY ALASTAIR MASON Running rings round doctors
For over 20 years, surveys have identified much inappropriate use of NHS resources. Whether it's attendances at accident and emergency departments, emergency admissions, ambulance call-outs or GP out-of-hours calls, the evidence shows that a significant proportion of these patient contacts are not needed to deal with the problems presented. A ...
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High Court rules HA should have consulted over closures
Cash-strapped health authorities contemplating hospital closures would do well to study a recent High Court judgment if they want to avoid having the process derailed.
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'Case of the decade' set to continue until April
The hearing dubbed the General Medical Council's 'case of the decade' must be sending shivers up the spines of health service managers who happen to be doctors.
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Government considers legislative framework for living wills
The government is consulting on proposals for a legislative framework for substitute decision-