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Competition hots up for 2006 HSJ Awards
Primary care trusts in Croydon and Blackpool dominate the shortlist in this year's HSJ Awards, with seven nominations between them.
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Cancer patients' concern about choice
Patients offered choice of treatment without medical explanation of the options can feel shocked and abandoned by their doctors, according to a Cancer Research UK study.
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Exclusive: Audit Commission calls for 'radical action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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Report calls for 'radical action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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Report calls for 'test action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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Report calls for 'test action' to plug Manchester health gap
'Concerted radical action' is required to plug the growing health inequalities gap across Greater Manchester, a damning report has warned.
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Sussex hospitals face loss of acute services
Up to five hospitals could be left without any acute surgery or medical facilities under proposals being considered by the NHS in West Sussex.
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Admin error blamed for children's services' poor rating
A poorly performing trust identified in a Healthcare Commission review of children's services last week blamed an administrative error for its low score.
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PCTs ahead on practice-based commissioning
Primary care trusts are ahead of schedule for universal coverage of practice-based commissioning, with 173 PCTs classified as introducing PBC at the end of July.
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Rejected PCT leaders told to apply for less senior jobs
Primary care trust chief executives not selected for jobs running their successor organisations are being denied redundancy and told to apply for less senior positions, according to union Managers in Partnership.
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Drive to increase Asian vitamin intake
Asian children should be given vitamin D from birth to two years to halt the re-emergence of a deficiency in the UK, according to doctors.
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Care heads for the high street as Blair courts retail kings
Tony Blair seems to have given his blessing to the expansion of companies like Boots into the healthcare market. As ideological rows about the involvement of the private sector hot up, Jennifer Trueland asks what the high street could offer the NHS.
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Chief joins exodus from Scottish health board
The chief executive of a troubled Scottish health board has quit, it was announced last week.
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Call for more staff to meet intervention needs
Union Amicus has questioned how health visitors can take extra responsibilities to identify babies and young children at risk of future anti-social behaviour when they are facing job cuts and recruitment freezes.
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Celebs lined up for nursing role
Three television celebrities are working alongside nurses at Barnsley Hospital foundation trust as part of a new TV series that highlights the role of NHS nurses.
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Decision to shut walk-in mental health crisis centre referred to Hewitt
A proposal to close a south London walk-in emergency clinic for people with mental health problems has been referred to the health secretary by local councils.
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Clinicians launch community ENT to fend off independent giants
A group of 150 GPs, practice nurses and managers have set up a social enterprise venture in an attempt to protect NHS services from being 'picked off' by the independent sector.
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New service to combat lack of NHS dentists
A new dental access hotline has attracted 200 calls in its first week
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Public split on treatment costs
One in three people believes the NHS should provide 'all drugs and treatments, no matter what the cost', while four out of 10 believe the NHS should provide the 'most effective treatment, no matter what the cost', according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Court orders drug rethink
A primary care trust has been ordered to review its decision not fund treatment with a cancer drug.